A production schedule creating method includes: a schedule information acquiring step of acquiring production schedule information including a production sequence for producing a plurality of models of products, a commenceable time point, and a production deadline time point; a preparation time calculating step of calculating a preparation time taken for arrangement work of arranging members on arrangement means, for each of a plurality of models; a production time point calculating step of calculating a production commencing time point and a production end time point for each of the plurality of models; a schedule satisfaction determining step of determining whether or not a schedule satisfying condition is satisfied, for each of the plurality of models; and a sequence changing step of changing a sequence for producing an unsatisfied model that does not satisfy the schedule satisfying condition, in a case where the unsatisfied model is present.

A board production management device for managing a board production line including a solution memory section for linking and storing a problem event that may occur in a board production line and that requires a countermeasure operation, a solution to serve as the countermeasure operation, and a set authority level set for a worker who may implement the solution; an solution memory section for authenticating the authority level of a worker who implements the countermeasure operation; and a solution notification section for separately reporting, when a problem event occurs, an executable solution corresponding to a set authority level equal to or less than the authority level, and an unexecutable solution corresponding to a set authority level exceeding the authority level.

A board production management device configured to manage a board production line including an initial notification section configured to issue notification information including at least one of a contents of an error cause or a contents of countermeasures when the error cause that requires countermeasures occurs at the board production line; and an escalation notification section configured to issue the notification information after escalating in a case in which the error cause is not resolved after a specified time has elapsed since the error cause occurred. Accordingly, because when the specified time has elapsed, a notification is issued as escalating the notifyee or escalating the contents of countermeasures to resolve error causes more effectively, and compared to conventional technology in which only re-notification of the occurrence of the error cause is performed, notification is performed more efficiently, enabling an error cause that requires countermeasures to be resolved more quickly.

A method to set up the parameters of solder paste screen printer while in a new product introduction (NPI). The method includes establishing a solder-printing database of a predetermined product and a database of different specifications of products, and training a first prediction model by reference to a solder paste screen printer (SPSP) and a solder paste inspection (SPI) based on the solder-printing database. A second prediction model is trained by reference to the SPI based on the database of different products. The method further includes predicting parameters for products with different specifications under multiple sets of printing parameters based on the first and second prediction models. An objective function based on the predicted measurements is established, and a specification of a product and a printing expectation parameters are input to the objective function for outputting many sets of printing-suggestion parameters of the new product.

A method and a control device for the throughput-optimized production of printed circuit boards on a pick-and-place line is provided. Further provided is a method for the throughput-optimized production of printed circuit boards on a pick-and-place line, wherein: the printed circuit boards are divided into groups known as clusters; each cluster is produced using one set-up; the set-up is realized by changing tables that can be attached to the pick-and-place line, each changing table having at least one feed device for keeping ready stocks of components; a quantity of changing tables needed for each set-up is referred to as a changing table set and an empty changing table set includes changing tables having feed devices that are empty.

A setup support device capable of editing a setup list in accordance with a change in a production schedule or the like, thereby enabling more efficient setup of a component mounter. The setup support device includes a list editing section for performing editing to increase or decrease production jobs included in a setup list in accordance with a request from an operator who performs setup at the component mounter or a change in a production schedule, and a guidance section for issuing setup guidance for the production jobs to the operator based on the edited setup list.

A manufacturing management device includes a determination section configured to determine the necessity of maintenance on any of the multiple production devices during production by the production line; and a conveyance management section configured to stop loading circuit boards, at a predetermined time, onto a reference device among the multiple production devices when it is determined that maintenance is necessary, the reference device being positioned upstream in the production line from a maintenance target device having a cause for maintenance.

A preparation schedule creating method includes: an information acquiring step of acquiring production schedule information including a production sequence, a commenceable time point, and a production deadline time point, member information related to the members, arrangement means information related to a state of arrangement means attached to production equipment and a state of equipment detached arrangement means detached from the production equipment, work quantity information related to a work quantity of arrangement work of arranging members on the arrangement means, worker information related to the number of workers that performs the arrangement work; a usable arrangement means selecting step of selecting a usable arrangement means based on the production schedule information and the arrangement means information; and a preparation work schedule determining step of determining the selected usable arrangement means as the usable arrangement means for one model in the preparation work schedule.

A CPU of a management computer sets an nth component in a mounting operation order of the current sequence as a target component, calculates nearby state data of the target component, sets the required accuracy of the target component based on the nearby state data and memorizes the required accuracy of HDD. Because the required accuracy is automatically set based on the nearby state data in this manner, the set required accuracy matches actual circumstances better compared to than with conventional technology. Therefore, it is possible to automatically set appropriate required accuracy of a target component.

An apparatus includes a processor to formulate component-allocation indicating each type of the products, any of the mounters, surface-mounting components, and the number of surface-mounting components to be mounted on a printing-board from the mounter, and optimize the component-allocation using a plan-problem solver; use results of the process by the processor to execute a process of grouping the types of products to be produced without switching surface-mounting component supply carriages set for the plurality of mounters; formulate the order of the production groups of the products after the grouping, solve the integer-plan problem using an integer-plan-problem solver, and execute, for each of the variations, a process of optimizing the production-order so that a time period for producing all the products is minimized; and determine a production-plan that is among results, obtained by the processor, of the process of optimizing the production order and causes a shortest-production time period.