Hitachi, Ltd.

Eigo Oikawa

Hideaki Kobayashi

Shigeru Sato

Yoshinao Arai

Shino Takahashi

The present invention relates to a computer system which can store assembly information and component information for components to be automatically inserted by an insertion machine into a printed board, which can perform required operations based upon the information stored, and which can display and output results of the processings. In the present method, the system checks for possible mechanical interference, when inserting a component, between an insertion head and other components having the possibility to be inserted prior to the component prepares preceding relations of insertion order from the results of an interference checking, selects the components which cannot be inserted automatically according to the preceding relations of insertion order, and modifies insertion processes or insertion directions thereof, decides insertion order of the components according to the modified insertion processes or the insertion directions, and, at last, automatically prepares and outputs numerical control data relating to the automatic insertion of said components.

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Katsuta, Japan

Eigo Oikawa