Method of preparing a setup kit for a placement machine
AssigneeSick AG
InventorsDanny Wernet, Fabian Schmidt, Bernhard Füger
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of preparing a setup kit for at least one placement machine, wherein the placement machine serves for the placement of components on/at assemblies, and wherein those components that are required for the assemblies for a plurality of different assemblies to be manufactured are determined by means of the placement machine; possible setup kits for the placement machine are prepared iteratively from the determined components, with each setup kit comprising a plurality of components; an optimized setup kit is selected from the setup kits by means of an electronic processing device in the method.
Claims20
A method of preparing a setup kit for at least one placement machine, wherein the placement machine serves for the placement of components on/at assemblies, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining components that are required for assemblies for a plurality of different assemblies to be manufactured by the at least one placement machine;
- iteratively preparing possible setup kits for the at least one placement machine from the determined components, wherein each of the possible setup kits comprises a plurality of possible components selected from the determined components, wherein the plurality of possible components associated with each one of the possible setup kits comprises a unique combination of selected ones of the determined components;
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- selecting an optimized setup kit from the possible setup kits by means of an electronic processing device.
An electronic processing device comprising a data interface, wherein the processing device is configured to:
- determine components that are required for assemblies for a plurality of different assemblies to be manufactured by a placement machine;
- prepare possible setup kits for the placement machine iteratively from the determined components, each of the possible setup kits comprising a plurality of possible components wherein the plurality of possible components associated with each one of the possible setup kits comprises a unique combination of selected ones of the determined components;
- select an optimized setup kit from the possible setup kits;
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- output the optimized setup kit using the data interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.