KIC Thermal
KIC's provides products and services designed to improve a variety of thermal monitoring, profiling and process control applications.
Making Ovens Smarter
KIC provides hardware and software tools that help define, measure, monitor, and improve thermal processes for electronics manufacturing services. This reduces downtime, can decrease electrical expenses, and reduce your labor costs, all while improving your manufacturing quality, overall productivity, employee morale and customer satisfaction… and ultimately, profits.
KIC does this with a focus on continuous innovation. We’ve developed an entire generation of smart technologies for reflow ovens, curing ovens, and wave solder machines, allowing you to not just reduce production costs, to not just improve quality, but to add capabilities that you can use to win new business.
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All KIC products are designed to give maximum value and fast payback by streamlining your thermal process. Investment in a KIC product is a step toward total process control and quality management. All KIC products come with a no questions asked, 30 day money back guarantee.
KIC Thermal Postings
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KIC Vision² Periodic Automatic Profiling for Reflow and Curing Ovens
Eliminate manual periodic profiling KIC Vision² utilizes temperature and speed sensors embedded in the oven for consistent and accurate profile measurements of the proces...
The smart profiler for reduced cost, improved quality and convenient data sharing. Built with the Latest Data Processing and Wireless Technologies Available - A Smart Device...
KIC X⁵™ Intelligent Reflow Thermal Profiler
Robust and Compact Hardware with 2 Year Warranty This new and improved hardware is designed to withstand the roughest and toughest daily handling. In addition, the electronic circuitry has been changed to tolerate a high...
Conveniently view and share profiles on mobile devices. The K² is available both as a standard “passive” profiler as well as an “active” profiler in the same unit. The passive profiler measures and displays...
KICstart²™ Affordable, Easy to Use Thermal Profiler
The KICstart²™ thermal profiler utilizes core technologies developed by KIC, the world’s premier thermal profiling company, and is supported by KIC’s worldwide organization. Packaging these innovative technologies into a low...
KIC Auto-Focus Power - Thermal Process Optimization Software for Reflow Ovens
Conveniently view and share profiles on mobile devices Software Description Auto-Focus Power™ is a ‘recipe search engine’ with an intelligent database Every manual profi...
KIC Navigator Power - Process Optimization Software
Reflow Oven Set Up for Lower Electricity Use - Improve Production Quality The One-Best Process Set Up -- Automatically KIC’s powerful Navigator™ software is a system that automatically determines...
KIC Reflow Process Index (RPI) Software
Managing the Ultimate Reflow Oven Output. The KIC RPI helps manage reflow ovens to consistently maximize the desired results. In addition, the RPI provides process deficiency information in order to help users correct their defect issu...
ProBot Automatic Profiling System
The Profiling Machine for your Profile Machine The ProBot automatically verifies whether each PCB is processed to specification in the reflow oven. The suspect PCBs then can be sent off to batch X-ray. Because the typical batch X-ray m...
KIC 24/7 Wave - Wave Solder Process Software
Automatic Profiling, SPC and Traceability for Wave Solder The KIC 24/7 Wave brings an innovative level of automation to the wave solder process: around-the-clock monitoring, SPC charting, analysis, documentation, and production traceab...
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What Does Industry 4.0 Actually Deliver Today? Example Reflow.
Aug 04, 2021 | Vitor Barros
Industry 4.0 is one of the most exciting developments in the manufacturing industry in decades. It promises vast improvements for both manufacturers and their customers. For some companies, however, it can be overwhelming, and it can be difficult with the current available information to understand exactly what the benefits will be in the average factory, and to calculate the return on the investment. Therefore, it may be helpful to bring the discussion down to a tangible level and to isolate one little part of the whole smart electronic assembly factory, namely reflow....
Sep 19, 2016 | Bjorn Dahle
This white paper seeks to set out the value of a ‘smarter’ approach to the reflow process and how a more intelligent oven can offer real added value and performance to the entire line. It also lays out some of the criteria that is important when selecting smart equipment for a smart process, that conforms to, and is ready for, IoM or Industry 4.0...
Jan 06, 2011 | Brian O' Leary, Tim Grove, Dr. S. Manian Ramkumar
The oven recipe, which consists of the reflow oven zone temperature settings and the speed of the conveyor, will determine a specific time‐temperature profile for a given PCB assembly. In order to achieve a good quality PCB assembly, the time‐temperature ...
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KIC to Exhibit Smart Thermal Process Solutions at SMTA Dallas Expo & Forum
Mar 30, 2026 | KIC, a global leader in thermal process control solutions for electronics manufacturing, will exhibit at the SMTA Dallas Expo & Forum on April 7, showcasing technologies that transform thermal data into actionable insight.
Mar 23, 2026 | KIC, a leader in thermal profiling solutions, announced that KIC® HeatMap™ has been named a Category Winner in Soldering - Process Control Tools in the 2026 Circuits Assembly New Product Introduction (NPI) Awards.
Feb 23, 2026 | KIC, a global leader in thermal process control solutions for electronics manufacturing, will highlight a range of advanced profiling innovations at the 2026 APEX EXPO, taking place March 17-19 at the Anaheim Convention Center. At Booth 2702, KIC will demonstrate how its solutions help manufacturers gain deeper, more practical insight into soldering processes and equipment performance.
KIC to Present RIT Study on Thermocouple Attachment Methods at SMTA Carolinas Technical Meeting
Feb 16, 2026 | KIC, a global leader in thermal process control solutions for electronics manufacturing, will present new research examining thermocouple attachment methods and their impact on reflow profiling accuracy at the SMTA Carolinas Chapter Technical Meeting on March 4, 2026, in Charlotte, NC.
KIC Relocates Global Headquarters to New San Diego Facility
Dec 22, 2025 | KIC, the leader in smart thermal process technologies for electronics manufacturing, announced today that its global headquarters will relocate to a new, expanded facility in San Diego. The updated space gives the company room to expand its operations and continue supporting customers with the same level of responsiveness they're used to.
Nov 24, 2025 | KIC, the leader in smart thermal process technologies for electronics manufacturing, has won the 2025 Global Technology Award in the Thermal Profilers category for its KIC HeatMap™ solution. The award was presented during a ceremony at productronica in Munich, Germany on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.
Nov 03, 2025 | KIC, the leader in smart thermal process technologies for electronics manufacturing, will highlight its newest profiling and process control advancements at the SMTA Space Coast Expo & Tech Forum on Thursday, November 13, 2025, at the Melbourne Auditorium in Melbourne, Florida.
KIC Showcases Next-Generation Process Insight and Control Solutions at productronica 2025
Nov 03, 2025 | KIC, the leader in smart thermal process technologies for electronics manufacturing, will exhibit its latest innovations at productronica 2025, taking place November 18–21 at Messe München in Munich, Germany. Visitors to Hall A4, Booth 214 are invited to discover how KIC continues to push the boundaries of process insight and control for today's modern, connected factories.
Oct 27, 2025 | KIC, the leader in smart thermal process technologies for electronics manufacturing, is proud to announce it has received the 2025 CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Service Excellence Award (SEA) in the Soldering Equipment category. The award was presented to Miles Moreau, General Manager at KIC, by Mike Buetow, President of the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) during a ceremony held on October 21 at the Rosemont Convention Center as part of SMTA International 2025.
KIC to Present Key Findings on Thermocouple Accuracy and Process Control at SMTA Tijuana
Oct 20, 2025 | KIC, the leader in smart thermal process technologies for electronics manufacturing, will exhibit and present at the upcoming SMTA Tijuana Expo, taking place Thursday, November 13, 2025, at the Quartz Hotel in Tijuana, Mexico.
