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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2015
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Alexander Pfaffinger, Munich, DE;
Christian Royer, Ottobrunn, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Provided is a method for populating printed circuit boards, which includes the steps of registering jobs in each case relating to the population of a number of printed circuit boards of a printed circuit board type with components of predetermined component types, assigning printed circuit board types of the registered jobs to a predetermined number of fixed set-up families, optimizing the assignment in such a way that a characteristic number relating to all the pick-and-place lines of the pick-and-place system is optimized as far as possible, and populating the printed circuit boards on one of the pick-and-place lines by using one of the fixed set-ups.