Component mounting line control system that increases manufacturing processing time in response to operator location and storage capacity information
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyoshi Nishida
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Abstract
A component mounting line control system controls a component mounting line. The component mounting line includes a component mounting device and a board retrieving unit. The component mounting line control system includes an acquirer and a controller. The acquirer acquires information from the board retrieving unit. The controller controls the component mounting device based on the information acquired by the acquirer. The controller lengthens a time taken for a manufacturing process in the component mounting device in a case where the acquirer acquires first warning information, which indicates that a board accommodation limit is about to be reached, from the board retrieving unit.
Claims11
A component mounting system comprising:
- a component mounting line for manufacturing a board including:
- a component mounting device that mounts a component on the board;
- and
- a board retrieving unit that retrieves the board, the board retrieving unit positioned in the component mounting line and downstream from the component mounting device and configured to hold a predetermined number of boards, and
- a component mounting line control system comprising:
- an acquirer that acquires information from the board retrieving unit;
- a controller that controls the component mounting device based on the information acquired by the acquirer;
- and
- a notifier that performs notification of a state of the board retrieving unit,
- wherein, during the board manufacturing, the controller adjusts an operating state of the component mounting device from a normal state, in which the component mounting device is operated normally, to a first state, in which a manufacturing process time is lengthened without stopping the component mounting device, when the acquirer acquires first warning information, which indicates that a number of boards in the board retrieving unit is equal to or greater than a first percentage and equal to or smaller than a second percentage of an accommodation capacity of the board retrieving unit,
- wherein the operating state of the component mounting device returns to the normal state when a board retrieval process has been completed such that the number of boards in the board retrieving unit is less than the first percentage of the accommodating capacity of the board retrieving unit, and
- wherein a component-mounted board is manufactured in the component mounting system by mounting the component on the board through soldering.
A component mounting line control system which controls a component mounting line including a component mounting device that mounts a component on a board and a board retrieving unit that retrieves the board, the system comprising:
- an acquirer that acquires information from the board retrieving unit;
- a controller that controls the component mounting device based on the information acquired by the acquirer;
- and
- a position information specifier;
- wherein the controller determines whether an operator is in a vicinity of the component mounting line based on an operator location information output from the position information specifier, and in a case where the location of the operator has not been found, the controller adjusts an operating state of the component mounting device from a normal state to a first state in which the manufacturing process time of the component mounting device is lengthened without stopping the component mounting device,
- wherein the time taken for the manufacturing process in the component mounting device returns to the normal state when the operator is determined to be in the vicinity of the component mounting line, and
- wherein a component-mounted board is manufactured in the component mounting line by mounting the component on the board through soldering.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.