Reflow Oven Set Up for Lower Electricity Use

Navigator Power selects the best oven recipe based on user selected criteria:

• Minimum electricity use
• Deep in spec profile
• Maximized throughput
• Minimized oven changeover time

Where do the energy savings come from?

• Most reflow ovens are set up without considerations of electricity use
• Reflow ovens tend to run too hot and too fast
• Software simulation identifies the oven recipe that will yield the lowest electricity use based on the above criteria

When will the electricity savings be realized?

• Instantly

What is required to achieve the electricity savings?

• Knowledge of the appropriate process window
• One initial profile run with TCs on the product
• Knowledge of minimum allowable reflow oven conveyor speed
• KIC Navigator Power and a KIC profiler
• Nothing else

Ease of Use Software

• Most profiling tasks are automated and run invisibly in the background
• The user interface enables the responsible engineer to select the higher level criteria such as process window and minimum conveyor speed
• Everything else can be delegated
• The ease of use software means faster oven set up and lower production downtime