Manufacturing management system having SMT line

A manufacturing management system for controlling an SMT line to manufacture printed circuit boards the manufacture of which has been designated, said system comprising:

• an SMT line composed of a group of SMT manufacturing equipment including a screen printer, an automatic mounting machine for automatically mounting parts on printed circuit boards and a reflow oven;
• a reel stocker for storing parts reels;
• a cartridge stocker for storing cartridges;
• a database for storing a source data management file created by CAD data for a printed circuit board, an inventory parts management file, a cartridge management file and an SMT line information file which includes manufacturing conditions of the SMT manufacturing equipment and equipment arrangement;
• an SMT set-up support unit for creating a set-up instruction manual, which specifies set-up for manufacturing printed circuit boards on the SMT line, by referring to the SMT line information file that has been stored in said database;
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• a mounting data creating unit for creating mounting data, which are for allowing the mounting machine to mount parts on printed circuit boards, using part setting position addresses at the mounting machine contained in said set-up instruction manual and part mounting position coordinates contained in the source data management file.