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KIC RPI – Reflow Process Inspection

Automated Inspection for your reflow oven and thermal processes.

Need better defect analysis?

Combine the reflow data with your SPI and AOI data for true defect data analytics.

Without RPI you don’t have the complete answer!

The most critical stage of your manufacturing process has missing data, reliant on the last known good profile.

With so many variables like heater temperature, blower speed, conveyor speed variations and fume extraction rate the Heat Transfer Index of an oven can change over time or after maintenance.

Even small oven changes can cause your previously good processes to drift out of spec.

Of course you can run a thermal profile for every batch of boards, for better process control and for batch traceability but this will be both time consuming and impact production uptime.

Like AOI & SPI why not automatically monitor your reflow process with RPI?

RPI automates the reflow data collection process, providing full production and process traceability and a profile for every board manufactured.

RPI completes the assembly line ‘Inspection’ data, providing all the live critical reflow data in a way that SPI does for solder paste & AOI does for component placement.

With KIC RPI or KIC ProBot installed on your oven you will automatically have the critical process data and a profile you need for every board you produce, without any user intervention.

KIC’s Automated Profiling Systems, ensure that you only produce when your reflow process is in spec.

If a process drifts sufficiently to trigger any process limits, then boards can be automatically stopped from entering the oven, preventing further solder defects and associated rework costs.

Automated Historical Board Data

Historical board data can be easily accessed to provide evidence of a good process, for any given board, without manually running a verification process to check.

Customer Audits can therefore be satisfied quickly, with full visibility of every batch built.

Click below to see how Automating your reflow data collection makes sense