Component mounting system and component mounting method
AssigneeFuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun IISAKA, Hidetoshi ITO
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Abstract
A component mounting system comprising a feeder stocking area in which feeders to be exchanged with feeders for which exchanging is necessary from among multiple feeders which are set in the feeder setting area of each of the component mounting machines are caused to wait; and an exchanging robot which removes the feeders for which exchanging is necessary from the feeder setting area of each of the component mounting machines, removes the feeders to be exchanged with the feeders for which exchanging is necessary from among the multiple feeders which wait in the feeder stocking area, and sets the feeders in the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine.
Claims9
A component mounting system which sets multiple feeders to be capable of being exchanged in respective feeder setting areas of multiple component mounting machines which are arranged along a conveyance path of a circuit board, conveys the circuit board to the multiple component mounting machines in order and mounts components which are supplied from the multiple feeders onto the circuit board using each of the component mounting machines to produce a component mounted board, the component mounting system comprising:
- a feeder stocking area in which feeders to be exchanged with feeders for which exchanging is necessary from among multiple feeders which are set in the feeder setting area of each of the component mounting machines are caused to wait;
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- an exchanging robot which removes the feeders for which exchanging is necessary from the feeder setting area of each of the component mounting machines, removes the feeders to be exchanged with the feeders for which exchanging is necessary from among the multiple feeders which wait in the feeder stocking area, and sets the feeders in the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine,
- wherein in a case in which a board type to be produced in each of the component mounting machines is switched, the exchanging robot performs feeder exchange work before board type switching in parallel with component mounting work onto a final circuit board before the board type switching, and in the feeder exchange work before the board type switching, the exchanging robot removes feeders which are not used in production after the board type switching from among feeders for which supplying of components which are necessary for component mounting work onto a final circuit board of the production during production before board type switching is completed from the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine and collects the feeders which are not used in the production in the feeder stocking area, and removes the feeders which are used in the production after the board type switching from the feeder stocking area and sets the feeders in the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine.
A component mounting method which sets multiple feeders to be capable of being exchanged in respective feeder setting areas of multiple component mounting machines which are arranged along a conveyance path of a circuit board, conveys the circuit board to the multiple component mounting machines in order and mounts components which are supplied from the multiple feeders onto the circuit board using each of the component mounting machines to produce a component mounted board, the method comprising:
- a feeder stocking area in which feeders to be exchanged with feeders for which exchanging is necessary from among multiple feeders which are set in the feeder setting area of each of the component mounting machines are caused to wait;
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- an exchanging robot which removes the feeders for which exchanging is necessary from the feeder setting area of each of the component mounting machines, removes the feeders to be exchanged with the feeders for which exchanging is necessary from among the multiple feeders which wait in the feeder stocking area, and sets the feeders in the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine,
- wherein in a case in which a board type to be produced in each of the component mounting machines is switched, feeder exchange work before board type switching is performed using the exchanging robot in parallel with component mounting work onto a final circuit board before the board type switching, and in the feeder exchange work before the board type switching, feeders which are not used in production after the board type switching from among feeders for which supplying of components which are necessary for component mounting work onto a final circuit board of the production during production before board type switching is completed are removed from the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine and the feeders which are not used in the production are collected in the feeder stocking area, and the feeders which are used in the production after the board type switching are removed from the feeder stocking area and the feeders are set in the feeder setting area of the component mounting machine.
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