Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd.

Hiroyoshi Nishida

Yasuhiro Maenishi

Takeshi Kuribayashi

Nobuyuki Nakamura

Akihito Yamasaki

Atsushi Tanaka

Satoshi Masuda

Takuya Yamazaki

Ikuo Yoshida

Masaya Matsumoto

Chikashi Konishi

Kanji Hata

Takao Naito

Kazuhiko Narikiyo

Susumu Takaiti

Yoshinori Seki

Hidehiro Saho

A component mounting line control system controls a component mounting line. The component mounting line control system includes an acquirer, a first detector, a second detector, and a controller. The acquirer acquires set-up changing data. The first detector is provided on the upstream side of the reflow device and detects the board. The second detector is provided on the downstream side of the reflow device and detects the board. The controller changes a reflow condition based on the set-up changing data and the result of detection performed by the first detector and the second detector after the acquirer acquires the set-up changing data.

Component mounting line control system

A component mounting line control system controls a component mounting line. The component mounting line includes a component mounting device and a board retrieving unit. The component mounting line control system includes an acquirer and a controller. The acquirer acquires information from the board retrieving unit. The controller controls the component mounting device based on the information acquired by the acquirer. The controller lengthens a time taken for a manufacturing process in the component mounting device in a case where the acquirer acquires first warning information, which indicates that a board accommodation limit is about to be reached, from the board retrieving unit.

Component mounting line control system that increases manufacturing processing time in response to operator location and storage capacity information

A management computer (equipment information acquisition unit) includes an equipment information acquisition unit that acquires production information from a plurality of pieces of production equipment and a display that displays a production status of a production line (component mounting line) and manages the production status of the production line where a work (board) is operated with a plurality of pieces of production equipment in order to produce a product (mounting board). Then, the display displays a plurality of equipment information sections respectively displaying the equipment information of a plurality of pieces of production equipment in order according to the production order and further displays the number of stocks of the work in a corresponding one of the plurality of pieces of production equipment in each of the plurality of work information sections to be displayed for the plurality of pieces of production equipment.

Production management device and production status display method

A carrier tape packageis used in an electronic components placing apparatus for feeding electronic components by a tape feeder, and has a carrier tapehoused in a wound state on a tape reel. In the carrier tape package, a data storage unit, in which an IC taghaving carrier tape information containing identification information of electronic components P held in the carrier tapeis held in a holder, is attached to the tape reel. At the instant when the carrier tapeis mounted in the tape feeder, the carrier tape information is read out by a reader/writer belonging to the tape feeder from the data storage unitmounted on the leading end portion of the tape feeder.

Electronic components feeding apparatus, and components information managing method in electronic components feeding apparatus

A method of optimizing an order of component mounting which includes optimizing an order of component mounting for any one pattern among the plurality of patterns, calculating a quotient and a remainder by dividing the total number of the patterns included in the board by the number of mounters, determining the quotient as the number of patterns to be allocated in a case where the remainder is zero. The optimization method also includes determining a number, which is the quotient plus one, as the number of patterns to be allocated to the same number of the mounters as the remainder, starting from the mounter in a process farthest upstream, determining the quotient as the number of patterns to be allocated to the rest of the mounters, in the case where the remainder is one or greater, and allocating the allocated number of patterns, to each of the mounters.

Method for optimization of an order for component mounting and apparatus for optimization of an order for component mounting

A component verification method for a mounter () that is capable of performing component verification with less labor. The method includes a position specification step (SA) of specifying a placement position in the mounter () where a component tape is placed; a read step (S) of reading component information from an IC tag () that is attached to the component tape or a reel (); and a verification step (S) of verifying the component information and the placement position against component arrangement data that indicates components that should be mounted onto the board as well a position where the component tape should be placed.

Component verification method and apparatus

An optimizing apparatus for optimizing a mounter equipped with a line gang pickup head which picks up a plurality of components and mounts them on a board. The apparatus includes a nozzle set determination unit for determining a nozzle set which reduces a mounting time in view of a number of times interchanging pickup nozzles and a total task number necessary for mounting the plural components, a nozzle pattern determination unit for determining an optimal nozzle pattern as well as an arrangement of pickup nozzles (nozzle arrangement) at a nozzle station, based on the nozzle set determined by the nozzle set determination unit, and Z-axis arrangement/mounting order optimization unit for determining an array order of component feeders and a mounting order of components while maintaining the determined nozzle set and nozzle pattern.

Method for optimization of an order of component mounting, apparatus using the same, and mounter

A transfer rackloaded with a seriate number of component supply cassettesto be handled collectively is carried and retained on a truckso that it can be taken in and out of the truck. The transfer rackis passed between the truckand a component supply section. Thus, the withdrawal of the transfer rackfrom the component supply sectionto the truckand the delivery of the transfer rackto the component supply sectionare executed in a timely manner so as to change the component supply cassettesat the component supply section 8. The transfer rackdelivered to the component supply sectionis positioned by operating an automatic positioning means at the component supply sectionin a direction in which it is loaded and unloaded and in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which it is loaded and unloaded.

Method and apparatus for collectively changing components at component supply section

Image data of various kinds of components and component text data required for mounting of components, e.g., shapes, dimensions, packing forms, colors, and the like of the components, are stored in a storage medium in a manner to be read out as part of a component electronic catalog. The storage medium is used to make a search for components on a screen and automatically read out necessary component text data. The component electronic catalog can be used not only to search for components on a screen, similar to a conventional component electronic catalog, but to automatically read out component text data so as to automatically form mounting data for components to be mounted which are selected through the screen search.

Component electronic catalog

A transfer rack loaded with a seriate number of component supply cassettes to be handled collectively is carried and retained on a truck so that it can be taken in and out of the truck The transfer rack is passed between the truck and a component supply section Thus, the withdrawal of the transfer rack from the component supply section to the truck and the delivery of the transfer rack to the component supply section are executed in a timely manner so as to change the component supply cassettes at the component supply section The transfer rack delivered to the component supply section is positioned by operating an automatic positioning means at the component supply section in a direction in which it is loaded and unloaded and in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which it is loaded and unloaded.

Image data of various kinds of components and component text data required for mounting of components, e.g., shapes, dimensions, packing forms, colors, and the like of the components are stored in a storage medium in a manner to be read out as part of a component electrical catalog. The storage medium is used to make a search for components on a screen and automatically read out necessary component text data. The component electronic catalog can be used not only to search for components on a screen, similar to a conventional component electronic catalog, but to automatically read out component text data so as to automatically form mounting data for components to be mounted which are selected through the screen search.

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