Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Keiji Hanada

Masashi Yokomori

Kouichi Kanematsu

Takuya Harada

Hiroaki Fujiwara

Ryoji Inutsuka

Yoshiyuki Nagai

Kunio Ohe

Koichi Yabuki

Naomi Nishi

Masaki Okamoto

A production system including a production line having a series of pieces of production equipment each of which has a parts supply unit. The production system includes: an NC management apparatus that is connected with each piece of the production equipment via a local-area network and acquires therefrom NC data used for operating each piece of the production equipment; and a scheduling apparatus that generates a production schedule and transmits the generated production schedule to the NC management apparatus via the local-area network. Here, the NC management apparatus generates, for each piece of the production equipment, data that is required to perform production according to the production schedule, obtains, for each piece of the production equipment, values that represent differences between current NC data that has been most recently acciuired and the generated data, and outputs the values.

NC data management apparatus and method

A production system including a production line having a series of pieces of production equipment, each of which has a parts supply unit. The production system includes an NC management apparatus that is connected with each piece of the production equipment via a local-area network and acquires therefrom NC data used for operating each piece of the production equipment, and a scheduling apparatus that generates a production schedule and transmits the generated production schedule to the NC management apparatus via the local-area network. The NC management apparatus generates, for each piece of the production equipment, data that is required to perform production according to the production schedule, obtains, for each piece of the production equipment, values that represent differences between current NC data that has been most recently acquired and the generated data, and outputs the values.

During the process of transporting an electronic component ( ) to a substrate ( ) after a suction nozzle ( ) has picked up the component ( ), the component ( ) being supplied from a component supply unit ( ), the amount of offset of the component ( ) with respect to the suction nozzle ( ) is calculated. The feasibility of mounting the component ( ) held by the suction nozzle ( ) onto the substrate ( ) without hindrance is determined from the amount of offset. If the result of the determination is positive, the component ( ) is mounted onto the substrate ( ).

Method and apparatus for mounting electronic part

A component/board retriever retrieves component/board data from CAD data supplied to a CAD data input unit . A circuit board information storage stores various board information and outputs board information based on board design data. A component information storage stores various component information and outputs component information based on component design data. A mount scheme (process) requirement storage stores requirements for mounting processes. A mounting device requirements storage stores requirements for mounting devices. A design analyzer analyzes whether the designed circuit board is achievable or not under requirements supplied by an applied mount requirement input unit and outputs the analysis results through a check result output unit to a designer. Thus, changes in the mounting process requirement and/or the mounting device requirement can be easily reflected on a design check. Therefore, the number of quality checks onto the actual prototype can be reduced, and the circuit board that satisfies the target quality can be designed in the early stage of designing.

Method and apparatus of checking mount quality of circuit board

The present invention concerns a method and apparatus of automatically mounting electronic components at predetermined positions of an electronic circuit board, which comprise a mounting process of taking out an electronic component,from an electronic components holding unit,and mounting onto an electronic circuit board,and a processing process to trim the electronic component,during the mounting process to a preferable characteristic value thereby allowing to reduce the number of types of electronic components,to be stored in the electronic components holding unit,and reduce the equipment cost and the management cost of the electronic components

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Hirakata, Japan

Keiji Hanada