Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Takuya Yamazaki

Hirokazu Takehara

Hiroki Sagara

Isato Iwata

Hiroshi Ando

Atsushi Nakazono

Yasuhiro Maenishi

Ikuo Yoshida

Kazuyoshi Harada

Akihito Yamasaki

Hiroyoshi Nishida

Masaya Matsumoto

Chikashi Konishi

Takahiro Noda

Takaaki Yokoi

Toru Chikuma

Yoshiyuki Hattori

Teppei Kawaguchi

Naofumi Ikuta

Tadashi Endo

Kenichiro Ishimoto

Hisashi Maezono

Taichi Shimizu

Narumi Atsuta

Masayuki Higashi

Taisuke Mori

Hiraki Sagara

Ryouji Kouchi

Inlin Tan

Eiji Shigaki

A production data creation device includes an input unit and a setting unit. The input unit receives an input of one application from among a plurality of applications displayed on a screen. The setting unit sets one or more operation parameters used by a component mounter to mount a component on a board, on the basis of the input application.

Production data creation device and production data creation method

A component mounting system includes a component mounting line, a storage device, and a display device. The component mounting line is formed by connecting a plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The storage device is connected to the component mounting line via a network to acquire information from each of the plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The display device is connected to the storage device via the network and displays a progress status of set-up work executed when changing a type of a mounting board manufactured by the component mounting line based on information stored in the storage device.

Component mounting system and progress display system of set-up work

A method is provided for estimating production capacity of a component mounting line for producing assembly boards. The component mounting line includes component-mounting-relevant devices coupled to one another, including a component mounter. Operator information is provided, which relates to an operator. Production-plan information is provided, which relates to a production plan for producing the assembly boards scheduled in the component mounting line. Based on floor-disposition information, production-lot information, event information, the operator information, and the production-plan information, a production capacity of the component mounting line is estimated. The floor-disposition information relates to a disposition of the component mounting line on a floor. The production-lot information relates to a time necessary for the component-mounting-relevant devices to produce the assembly boards. The event information relates to an event indicating that a work of the operator is necessary for the component-mounting-relevant devices and occurrence frequency indicating the number of occurrences of the event.

Apparatus and method for estimating production capacity

A facility configuration creation support method which supports creation of a facility configuration of a component mounting line which includes a component mounter includes a facility configuration creation step of creating a new facility configuration in which a total cost is reduced as compared to a current total cost in continuing production with a current facility configuration when producing in a specific period in the component mounting line.

Facility configuration creation support system and facility configuration creation support method

A group determination method includes a step of calculating an external set-up work time for an external set-up work by which a component supplier used in a group that is a next production target of a group under production in a component mounting line, including a plurality of the component mounters capable of attaching and detaching a component supply carriage which can arrange a plurality of the component suppliers (tape feeders), is removed from the component mounting line and arranged in the component supply carriage; and a step of calculating a production completion time at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed in consideration of the external set-up work time. A plurality of groups which are common in an arrangement of component suppliers for the mounting boards that are the production targets are determined so that production completion time is shortened.

Group determination method and group determination apparatus

An electronic component mounting method is performed by an electronic component mounting system including a component mounting line formed by interconnecting component mounting units which concurrently performs component mounting work on two kinds of boards different in mounting workload. The component mounting units includes: first and second board conveyance mechanisms; a component mounting unit; a board distribution unit which receives the board from the upstream-side apparatus and distributes the received board to either the first board conveyance mechanism or the second board conveyance mechanism; and a distribution control unit which controls the first board conveyance mechanism, the second board conveyance mechanism and the board distribution unit. The electronic component mounting method comprises mixedly distributing the two kinds of the boards to each of the first and second board conveyance mechanisms based on a board request signal issued from a most-upstream component mounting unit in the component mounting line.

Electronic component mounting method

A component mounting system includes a plurality of component mounting lines, and in the production of predetermined mounting boards, determines an allocation of workers to work which arises in each of the plurality of component mounting lines such that production completion times of the plurality of component mounting lines become sooner.

Component mounting system, worker allocation system, and worker allocation method

A mounting board manufacturing system includes a component placing device; a library; an operation information counter; and a corrector. The component data includes a control parameter for executing the component placing work by the component placing device, and information regarding the component. The operation information counter counts a score of the component placing work for each component data based on operation information including a result executed by the component placing device. The corrector selects correction component data that is a target to be corrected from a plurality of the component data based on the score and corrects the control parameter of the correction component data.

Mounting board manufacturing system

A feeder arrangement support system for supporting an arrangement of a feeder on a feeder arrangement unit includes a imaging unit that images information, a processor that superimposes arrangement support information for supporting the feeder arrangement on the feeder arrangement unit on an image obtained by imaging the feeder arrangement unit or a field of view of a worker, to generate a superimposed composite image, and a display that displays the superimposed composite image.

Feeder arrangement support system and method for supporting feeder arrangement

A production system includes a production line for producing a product by connecting a plurality of production facilities having working units for doing work on a transported workpiece; a gap time calculator that calculates a plurality of gap times respectively corresponding to the plurality of the production facilities until a next workpiece is transported from an upstream production facility to each of the plurality of the production facilities based on a production status of each of the plurality of the production facilities; and a preparation operation determination unit that determines an automatic preparation operation capable of being executed in each of the plurality of the production facilities based on the plurality of the gap times. Each of the plurality of the production facilities executes the determined automatic preparation operation.

Preparation operation determination system, method, and apparatus

A component mounting system includes at least one component mounter that is provided with a first board transport mechanism, a second board transport mechanism, a first mounting mechanism and a second mounting mechanism that mount components on a board, and a plurality of carriages that is respectively installed on the side of the first board transport mechanism and on the side of the second board transport mechanism and holds a plurality of tape feeders (component supply devices). When changing a production board type of a first board transported by the first board transport mechanism, the components are supplied from the component supply device held by a first carriage, a second carriage, and a third carriage, and the components are mounted on a second board that does not change the production board type by the first mounting mechanism and the second mounting mechanism.

Component mounting system, component sorting method, and component mounter

In a production management method of a substrate in a component mounting system having plural component mounting lines configured to include plural component mounting apparatuses, reading production data of an interrupt type substrate; collecting equipment data of each of the component mounting lines; and determining at least one component mounting line to produce the interrupt type substrate based on the read production data of the interrupt type substrate and the collected equipment data of each of the component mounting lines are performed.

Production management method of substrate in component mounting system

In two component mounting lines or more each including the plurality of the component mounters, a set-up changing work time, necessary for executing set-up changing work in the two component mounting lines or more based on the number of workers assigned for production in the two component mounting lines or more in each time zone, and the number of workers necessary for the set-up changing work necessary when the mounting board is changed in the two component mounting lines or more, is calculated; and a production completion time, which includes a set-up changing work time and at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed, is calculated; and a group is determined so that the production completion time is shortened within a predetermined time period in the two component mounting lines or more.

A component mounting method is provided in a component mounting apparatus that mounts a component onto a board using a plurality of pieces of production data linked to component data. The method includes executing, when the component data is changed, a simulation of a production cycle time based on the production data, and comparing a simulation result of the production cycle time after change of the component data with a production cycle time or a simulation result of the production cycle time before change of the component data, and outputting a comparison result.

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