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MAY 2021 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 73 what the standard is and certifies the equip- ment as an IPC_CFX qualified product. e KIC RPI (Reflow Process Inspection) is the only automatic profiling system qualified at this point. It makes it easy for the customer, who then can say, "Here is all this equipment that is CFX compliant, now I can make my CFX broker system and MES from that standard." I think our solutions around wave and reflow and being able to link to those types of factory sys- tems, really play well into companies creating the smart factory. And coming up shortly we are releasing our own KIC API and SDK. We have a soware development kit for cus- tomers who don't want to necessarily have KIC customize everything for them; we can hand them the kit with an API and say, "Use this kit, it will show you how to connect to our system. You can pick and choose what data you want to go to your MES or factory system." It's a really good, robust way of handing off the data because the customer can pick and choose how they want to do it. It's those types of things— the standards, having an SDK—that allows our system to be a really flexible solution for the customer, not just with all the value that it brings as being a real-time system on the line, but now it's very flexible on how they want to bring it to that smart factory level. Johnson: Is the implication that a customer can take baby steps as they work toward a final solution of an integrated digital factory? Maybe they're not ready for all the industry standard protocols because they have a homegrown sys- tem that they're working with or phasing out. By plugging into the SDK, are they still able to take what they already have and start to move that direction with KIC? WPI with real-time production dwell time.