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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1993
Kenichi Satou, Ikoma, JP;
Makoto Kawai, Neyagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Nakao, Nara, JP;
Satoshi Masuda, Hirakata, JP;
Koichi Kanematsu, Hirakata, JP;
Setsuo Horimoto, Katano, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
An assembly line includes a printing device for printing solder on a land of a circuit board, a mounting device for mounting an electric component at a predetermined position of the solder, and a soldering device for soldering the land to a terminal of the component. A monitored items detecting device detects predetermined to be monitored items of the board and equipment used in the printing, mounting, or soldering devices, and a control device analyzes a condition of the equipment and quality of the board with reference to warning criterion which do not exceed failure criterion, and then dynamically controls the various devices accordingly.