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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2019
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Alexander Pfaffinger, Munich, DE;
Christian Royer, Ottobrunn, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Provided is a method for determining set-up families for a pick-and-place line for populating circuit boards with electronic components one or more component types, the method including the following steps: detecting a predetermined or predeterminable number of set-up families; wherein a set-up family is defined as a quantity of circuit boards that can be populated on a pick-and-place line without changing the quantity of component types kept ready for population on the pick-and-place line; wherein an assignment of circuit boards to be distributed to the detected number of set-up families is optimized by integer linear programming in such a way that the sum of the numbers of component types per set-up family is minimized; and populating the circuit boards in the set-up family assigned to them.