A setup support device that improves the efficiency of setup of a component mounter by guiding supplying of feeders to a component supply device as preparation for setting of the feeders. The support setup device includes: a preparation cart on which are loaded multiple of the feeders used to perform multiple production jobs; and a feeder identifying section configured to identify multiple of the feeders to be set on a component supply device among the multiple feeders loaded on the preparation cart. The preparation cart includes a guidance section configured to issue guidance all at once for the identified multiple feeders to an operator performing the setup so as to supply the identified multiple feeders to the component supply device as preparation for setting the identified multiple feeders on the component supply device.

An imaging unit has its imaging field of view containing the conveyor, and images a subject in the imaging field. The imaging unit generates a luminance image representing the subject and a range image including height information indicating a height of at least one point on the subject from the conveyor by imaging the subject. A measurement unit measures a position of each workpiece in the luminance image. An obtaining unit obtains an overlap order of the workpieces based on the height information in the range image corresponding to the position of each workpiece in the luminance image. A determination unit determines the workpiece pickup order to allow a workpiece having a highest place in the overlap order to be picked up with a higher priority than other workpieces.

The invention relates to a conveying device for conveying objects comprising a plurality of conveyor segments, each conveyor segment having a control unit for controlling the conveyor drive, and a bus communication, wherein each control unit is connected to the bus communication. Each control unit has a microprocessor for processing control signals, a first electronic memory connected to the microprocessor, in which a first control configuration is stored, and a second electronic memory in which a second control configuration is stored. The microprocessor is adapted to control the conveyor drive in a first operating mode with the control configuration stored in the first memory, to load the second control configuration from the second memory into the first memory when a configuration change command is received, and to control the conveyor drive in a first operating mode with the control configuration stored in the first memory.

A substrate processing method is provided. The substrate processing method includes placing a substrate storage container storing a substrate on a load port; automatically determining a type of the substrate stored in the placed substrate storage container; and, by referring to a storage unit that stores parameter data set related to a transport condition for each type of substrate, controlling transport of the substrate stored in the substrate storage container based on the parameter data set corresponding to the automatically determined substrate type to process the substrate.

A combination of batch exchange carts that includes all of the feeders that supply components to be used in the post-changeover production from the multiple batch exchange units prepared in preparation space is decided based on the component information of feeders loaded on batch exchange carts used in the pre-changeover production and setup information of batch exchange carts that can be used for exchange memorized in memory device (component information of feeders loaded on batch exchange carts in preparation space), and then an operator is notified of the decided combination of batch exchange carts by sound or by the display of a mobile terminal or display device of production management computer.

A system for controlling a line speed of a conveyor belt of a conveyor system during product changeovers in a wallboard production line includes a computer processor, a calculation module for calculating a predetermined mass rate of a supply of ingredients transported on the conveyor belt and deposited into a mixer during a product changeover period, and a speed adjustment module for adjusting the line speed of the conveyor belt, using the processor, based on at least one of the predetermined mass rate and the line speed of the conveyor belt for reducing an overshoot during said product changeover period.

A mounting-related device includes an articulated robot that is disposed in a movable space formed between a first conveyance section and a second conveyance section, holds, and moves a processing target object such that a posture of a mounting surface can be changed, and the first conveyance section and the second conveyance section include a rail attachment section that can attach and detach a pair of rail devices bridged between the first conveyance section and the second conveyance section for moving a board when conveying the board.

A controller includes a simulator configured to simulate a final model for converting at least one of 1-1.sup.st processors and 1-2.sup.nd processors into a down state, in a virtual space that is a virtual space, so that a filling rate, which is a ratio of a used capacity of the storage to a total capacity of the storage, is equal to or less than a first value, and a process controller configured to control a first process line according to the final model.

An information processing device includes a communication unit configured to acquire drawing data in which a plurality of reference positions is set on a transportation path constituted of a transportation device and measured data which is obtained as a result of transportation on the transportation path and which includes a shape of the transportation path. The information processing device further includes a processing unit configured to detect reference positions in the measured data, superimpose the reference positions in the drawing data and the reference positions in the measured data corresponding to the reference positions in the drawing data onto each other, and correct a path between the reference positions in the measured data.

Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) ethanol through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and ethanol distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the ethanol below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the ethanol.