Thermal profiling specialist KIC and its partner E-tronix have announced a joint webinar dedicated to automatic profiling for SMT manufacturing. The session is aimed at process and manufacturing engineers who work with reflow soldering equipment and are looking to reduce manual effort while improving process consistency and traceability.
Automatic profiling has become an increasingly relevant discipline in SMT assembly as production environments handle a broader mix of board designs, component sensitivities, and solder paste chemistries. Traditional manual profiling approaches — where thermocouples are attached to a board and a single run is analysed — are time-intensive and may not reflect real-time variation in oven performance. Automated systems address this by continuously monitoring thermal mass, belt speed, and zone temperatures to generate or verify profiles with minimal operator input.
KIC is known in the European electronics manufacturing market for thermal profiling hardware and software solutions, including its real-time SPC (statistical process control) integration for reflow ovens. Automatic profiling tools from KIC, such as the Auto-Focus Pro platform, use predictive algorithms to calculate optimised oven set-points based on board and component data, reducing the number of physical profiling runs required during product changeovers.
For contract manufacturers and OEM assembly operations handling high-mix, low-to-medium volume production, automatic profiling can directly impact throughput and first-pass yield. It also supports traceability requirements increasingly expected in automotive, medical, and industrial electronics segments, where documented evidence of thermal process compliance is mandatory.
E-tronix, acting as a regional distribution and application support partner, brings localised expertise to the webinar format, which typically allows attendees to raise process-specific questions. The combination of vendor technology knowledge and regional application context is a common format for webinars targeting process engineers in the European EMS and OEM sectors.
No specific date, registration details, or agenda content were provided in the source announcement at the time of publication. Interested parties are advised to consult the KIC website directly at kicthermal.com for scheduling and registration information.
Quelle: KIC – https://kicthermal.com/kic-and-e-tronix-to-host-webinar-on-automatic-profiling-for-modern-smt-manufacturing/
