Method for determining set-up families for a pick-and-place line for populating circuit boards with electronic components

A control device for determining set-up families for a pick-and-place line for populating circuit boards with electronic components of one or more component types, comprising:

• means for detecting or a detector for 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 that are kept ready for population on the pick-and-place line;
• wherein
• means for assigning or an assignor for circuit boards to be distributed to the recorded number of set-up families which are configured to optimize this assignment by integer linear programming in such a way that the sum of the number of component types per set-up family is minimized, and
• means for populating or a populator of the circuit boards in the set-up family assigned to them.

A method for determining set-up families for a pick-and-place line for populating circuit boards with electronic components of one or more component types, wherein the method comprises:

• 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 that are 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;
• wherein a maximum threshold value in the form of a maximum degree of filling is predetermined for the quantity of component types that are kept ready on the pick-and-place line for the population.