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62 SMT Magazine • March 2015 artICle InDUSTrY 4.0 InITIaTIvES continues customer's respective requirements. Custom tailored master software is available for each system type. Customizing is an extremely im- portant factor in times of flexible manufactur- ing conditions. Thanks to computer control, entirely new possibilities are being created with these greatly varying software options. Manual selection of the required product profile—al- ways a latent source of error in actual practice— can be handled with software support while the process is running. The danger of executing production processes with incorrect parameter settings is minimized. This type of complex control opens up new dimensions of flexibility as well. For example, four production lines were set up with identi- cal equipment at the facilities of a customer of the German reflow system company. Intelligent software solutions and linking to PPS software via the XML standard make it easily possible to administrate and optimize product change- overs, as well as energy management across all systems. A product which is manufactured to- day in system 1 can be run on system 2, 3 or 4 tomorrow without delay, and optimizations are suggested for the sequence and the profiles, thanks to product profiling and production control. A production profile can be accessed from any system at any time via the master soft- ware—not only at identical, but rather at simi- lar or event different systems as well. Where profiling is concerned, it has been teamed up with a technology partner. The pro- filing module from KIC enables detailed profile creation for new products. It's relatively easy to set up in just a few steps. The settings are saved