JP3236312B2 - Component supply management method and component supply management device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a component on a printed circuit board.
And a component supply management method for a component mounting apparatus
And a component supply management device .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, as practical use of an unmanned device for automatically mounting electronic components on a printed circuit board has rapidly progressed, various ideas have been made on both hardware and software to improve productivity.

Hereinafter, a component supply management device for mounting a conventional electronic component on a printed circuit board surface will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 3, which components are arranged in the component supply device 11 with respect to the component supply unit 10 in a line in which the component mounters 9 and the like are arranged is determined for each component mounting device 9 or each production. For example, the instruction is made using sequence data as shown in (Table 1).

[0004] Here, the line for mounting electronic parts is
In the process of mounting electronic components on a printed circuit board, several component mounting devices 9 having different functions or capabilities or the same type are connected in order to efficiently mount various electronic components.

[0005]

[Table 1]

In Table 1, a conventional component mounting apparatus 9 is shown.
1 shows an example of the arrangement of the component supply devices 11 and an example of a production plan table 1 in a production line in which the first and second units are arranged. First, a case where the substrate A is produced based on the production plan table 1 will be described. At this time, the arrangement A-1 of the component supply devices 11 in the first component mounting apparatus 9 and the arrangement A-2 of the component supply devices 11 in the second component mounting apparatus 9 will be considered as examples. Here, the electronic components A are located at the component supply positions Z ₁ , Z ₂ ,.
BC, DEF,... Are supplied. This array A
In -1 and A-2, after the board A is produced based on the production plan table 1, the board B is continuously produced, and the arrangement of the component supply devices 11 in each component mounting apparatus 9 of the board B is performed. Produces the arrays B-1 and B-2 by instructing each of the component mounting apparatuses 9, and performs the setup change based on the instructions to produce the board B.

[0007]

However, in the above-described conventional configuration, when the setup is changed, the components used in the previous production by the component mounting apparatus on the same line will be used by another mounting apparatus in the next production. However, since the placement instruction is issued for each component mounting apparatus, it is not possible to know what layout another component mounting apparatus has.

[0008] Even if an attempt is made to print out, display, and compare the arrangement of the component supply devices in each component mounting apparatus,
In the conventional configuration, since the operator has to perform the comparison, it takes a long time to perform the comparison, and the accuracy of the comparison result is poor. Therefore, as described above, the number of parts replacement is large,
The efficiency at the time of setup change was also poor, and there was a problem that many mistakes were made for comparison by the operator and no good product could be produced.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and provides a parts supply management method and a parts supply system with a small number of parts replacements.
It is an object to provide a supply management device .

[0010]

To achieve the above object, a component supply management method according to the present invention is directed to a printed circuit board in which a plurality of component mounting apparatuses for mounting components on the printed circuit board are arranged.
In the component supply unit of each component mounting apparatus in the mounting line, the arrangement of component supply apparatuses for arranging a plurality of component supply apparatuses each having a designated component name to be supplied is determined.
Is a part supply management method to determine the current production and the next production .
A comparison step of comparing part names of parts used in one line and checking for the presence or absence of a part commonly used in both current production and next production; and a comparison in the comparison step after the comparison step
Based on the result, for the one line, the arrangement of the component supply devices of the next production is changed to the component supply device of the component commonly used in both the current production and the next production with the same component mounting device as the current production and And a step of arranging the same parts at the same position as the current production. In order to achieve the above object, component supply management device of the present invention, the component mounting apparatus for mounting components on printed circuit boards are arrayed flops
In the component supply section of each of the component mounting apparatus in the PC board mounting line of component supply apparatus for arranging a plurality of component supplying device for supplying part name is instructed respectively
A part supply management device that determines the arrangement of parts, compares the part names of parts used in one line between the current production and the next production, and determines whether or not there is a part commonly used in both the current production and the next production. Comparing means to be checked , and a comparison result based on the comparison result obtained by the comparing means.
For the one line, the arrangement of the component supply devices for the next production is changed to a component supply device for components commonly used in both the current production and the next production with the same component mounting device and the current production. And the same component arranging means arranged at the same position.

[0011]

According to the present invention, the above-described configuration allows one line to be replaced by one line so that it is not necessary to replace a part supply device for parts commonly used in both the current production and the next production at the time of setup change. In terms of minutes, the parts supply device for the next production that is used in both the current production and the next production is placed in the same component mounting device as the current production and at the same position as the current production. To determine the sequence,
The number of replacements of the component supply device in one board type change is greatly reduced, and the replacement of the component supply device can be completed in a short time. Therefore, the production loss due to the setup change can be greatly reduced, the burden on the operator can be greatly reduced, and an excellent effect of preventing quality trouble can be obtained.

[0012]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, a component supply management device 20
Are production instruction information (hereinafter, referred to as a production plan table) 1 indicating a production plan of a printed circuit board, mounting data 2 and 2 ′ for operating the component mounting apparatus 9, and the above-described production instruction information 1 and mounting data 2, 2 'includes a component supply section plan generation step 3 for determining the arrangement of the component supply devices for each production.

Here, the mounting data 2 and 2 'are (Table 2)
As shown in FIG. 7, the data is necessary for moving the component mounting apparatus 9, and includes positions X and Y where electronic components are mounted, a Z number designating the component supplying apparatus 11, and a component name for each component supplying apparatus 11 ( A component name to be mounted) is designated, and each row can be replaced, and can be replaced with mounting data used in another component mounting apparatus.

[0015]

[Table 2]

Next, the part supply part plan generation step 3 will be described. As shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2, a step of inputting mounting data of one line of the current production (hereinafter, referred to as a current production data input step) 4 and a step of inputting mounting data of one line of the next production (hereinafter, referred to as a current production data input step) 5, a process for inputting the next production data), a process for comparing component names of components used in the previous production and the next production (hereinafter, referred to as a data comparison process) 6,
A step of arranging the row of the same part of the mounting data of the next production at the position of the row of the same part of the current production (hereinafter referred to as an identical part arranging step) 7; In the current production data input step 4 and the next production data input step 5, the mounting data for one line of the current production and the next production are input, respectively, and in the data comparison step 6, The components to be used are compared one by one from the mounting data for the current production line and the mounting data for the next production line, and if there is the same component, it is mounted by the same mounting apparatus in the same component placement step 7. Therefore, the same component mounting data is sorted into data for the same mounting device. Then, the data comparison step 6 and the same component placement step 7 are repeated as many times as the number of components to be mounted in the next production (the number of rows of mounting data in the next production). Then, the parts to be newly used in the next production (parts not arranged in the same part comparison step 7) are arranged at the remaining appropriate positions in the remaining part arrangement step 8.

As described above, the arrangement of the component supply devices based on the mounting data 2 'generated in the component supply section plan generation step 3 is as shown in (Table 3). According to this, it is understood that in the conventional technique, the number of replacements of the component supply device is four, but only one.

[0018]

[Table 3]

In the above description, the mounting data is one data of the coordinate value of the component mounting and the component array, but each may be divided into two and linked. Furthermore, in the part supply part plan generation process,
Although the input is the mounting data, the data from the CAD may be an input and a process of distributing to the mounting apparatus may be included. Furthermore, although the description has been made assuming that the component mounting apparatuses are lines, each component mounting apparatus may be independent and not connected.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the setup is changed,
Used in both current and next production
To avoid the need to replace parts supply equipment
Parts supply equipment for parts commonly used for both next production
The same component mounting equipment as the current production and the same position as the current production
Array data of the next production parts supply device
Component supply equipment in one type change
The number of replacements of the parts has been greatly reduced,
The replacement work can be completed. Therefore, due to setup change
Production loss can be greatly reduced, and the burden on workers is greatly reduced.
It is possible to obtain excellent effects that can reduce quality problems
it can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a component supply management device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a part supply unit plan generation process.

FIG. 3 is an external perspective view of the component mounting apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Production plan table 2, 2 'Mounting data 3 Component supply part plan generation process 9 Component mounting device 20 Component supply management device

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hiroaki Kurata 1006 Odakadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-63-256322 (JP, A) JP-A-2-2 263500 (JP, A) JP-A-3-124100 (JP, A)

Claims (8)

(57) [Claims] 1. Component mounting for mounting components on a printed circuit board
In a printed circuit board mounting line where multiple devices are arranged
In the component supply section of the component mounting apparatus of Rusorezore, a component supply management method for determining the arrangement of the component supply apparatus for arranging a plurality of component supplying device for supplying part name is instructed respectively, current production and the next A comparison step of comparing the part names of parts used in one line of production and checking for the presence / absence of parts commonly used in both the current production and the next production; and a comparison in the comparison step after the comparison step Based on the result
For the one line, the arrangement of the component supply devices for the next production is changed to the component supply device for the components commonly used in both the current production and the next production with the same component mounting device as the current production and the current production. A component placement step of placing the components at the same position. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, after the same component arranging step, a remaining component arranging step of arranging a component supplying device for a component newly used in the next production at a position where one of the component mounting devices has not been arranged. Component supply management method described. 3. The component supply management method according to claim 1, further comprising a data input step of inputting mounting data for specifying a component to be used in the current production and the next production. 4. The parts supply management method according to claim 1, further comprising a data input step of inputting CAD data specifying parts used in the current production and the next production. 5. Component mounting for mounting components on a printed circuit board
In a printed circuit board mounting line where multiple devices are arranged
In the component supply section of the component mounting apparatus of Rusorezore, a component supply management device for determining an arrangement of the component supply apparatus for arranging a plurality of component supplying device for supplying part name is instructed respectively, current production and the next comparison means to check for parts used in common in both the comparing part name of the part to be used current production and the next production in one line with the production, based on the comparison result in said comparing means, said 1 line
Regarding the arrangement of the component supply devices for the next production, the component supply devices for components commonly used in both the current production and the next production are arranged at the same component mounting device as the current production and at the same position as the current production. A component supply management device, comprising: a same component placement unit. 6. A remaining component arrangement for arranging a component supply device of a component newly used in the next production at a position where one of the component mounting devices has not been arranged after the same component arrangement means arranges the component supply device. 6. The component supply management device according to claim 5, further comprising: means. 7. The component supply management device according to claim 5, further comprising data input means for inputting mounting data for designating components used in the current production and the next production. 8. The parts supply management device according to claim 5, further comprising data input means for inputting CAD data for specifying parts used in the current production and the next production.