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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2015
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Alexander Pfaffinger, München, DE;
Christian Royer, Ottobrunn, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, , DE;
Abstract
Provided is a method for populating printed circuit boards, which includes the steps of acquiring jobs, in each case relating to populating printed circuit boards of a printed circuit board type on the pick-and-place line, and associated probabilities by a job is to be executed in each case, assigning printed circuit board types of the jobs to set-up families, determining for each set-up family the characteristic number which comprises the sum of probabilities of those jobs, the printed circuit board types of which are comprised by the set-up family, optimizing the assignment in such a way that the characteristic numbers of different set-up families are as different as possible, providing a set-up from one of the determined set-up families on the pick-and-place line, and populating printed circuit boards on the pick-and place line.