Component replenishment management apparatus, component mounting system and component replenishment management method

A component replenishment management apparatus, comprising:

• an obtaining unit configured to obtain a production planning to produce components-mounted boards by mounting components on boards using Nt feeders, each of the Nt feeders being configured to perform a component supply operation of using sequentially a plurality of attached component storage members to supply components from the component storage members, Nt being an integer equal to or greater than 2;
• a predicting unit configured to predict an attachment possible period for each of the Nt feeders, the attachment possible period being a period until a total remaining component number, which is a total number of the components remaining in the plurality of component storage members, decreases to a predetermined number after the components of one component storage member used first, out of the plurality of component storage members, are used up;
• a setting unit configured to set a first reference time so that the first reference time overlaps the attachment possible periods for Nc candidate feeders out of the Nt feeders, the first reference time indicating a timing of an attachment operation of attaching another component storage member storing the components after the components of the one component storage member are used up, Nc being an integer equal to or greater than 2 and equal to or smaller than Nt;
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• a determining unit configured to determine an execution mode of the attachment operation for the candidate feeder corresponding to the first reference time based on a number of the components planned to be supplied by the candidate feeder in accordance with the production planning.