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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 19, 2005
Yasuhiro Maenishi, Yamanashi, JP;
Ikuo Yoshida, Kyoto, JP;
Yasuhiro Maenishi, Yamanashi, JP;
Ikuo Yoshida, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
To provide a line balance control method, a line balance control apparatus, and a component mounting machine, which do not require a higher-level device. A production lineis equipped with a printing machine, a coating machine, a component mounting machine, a component mounting machine, and a reflow machine, and they are connected through a communication line, respectively. In addition, a line balance control device, which is equipped with possibility inquiring means which makes an inquiry of whether or not it is possible to mount components to be allocated, among the components to be mounted, to the component mounting machines, possibility obtaining means which obtains a response to the inquiry in the possibility inquiring means, and allocating means which allocates components to be mounted, to each component mounting machine, in such a manner that mounting time at each component mounting machine is equalized, on the basis of the response obtained in the possibility obtaining means, is disposed in a device which configure the production line