A tape cutting processing apparatus includes a conveyance device conveying a component wrapping tape along a conveyance path, a detection device detecting the presence of a component accommodated in a cavity of the component wrapping tape conveyed along the conveyance path at a detection position, a folding-back member that folds back a cover tape at a folding-back position so that adhesion surfaces of the cover tape face each other as the component wrapping tape is conveyed, a cutting device that cuts each cutting portion of a carrier tape and the cover tape at a cutting position, and a control device that the conveyance device to position the carrier tape and the cover tape folded back by the folding-back member in a state of being overlapped on the cutting position, and controls the cutting device to cut the carrier tape and the cover tape.

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 automatic splicing device provided with a communication device configured to communicate with a component mounter or a host computer that is connected to the component mounter such that communication is possible, a connection control device configured to control connecting of the a first tape and a second tape, and a display device configured to display information related to connecting of the first tape and the second tape.

An automatic splicing device (20) provided with a communication device (40) configured to communicate with a component mounter (M) or a host computer (HC) that is connected to the component mounter (M) such that communication is possible, a connection control device (100 [103]) configured to control connecting of the a first tape (Tc) and a second tape (Tc), and a display device (90) configured to display information related to connecting of the first tape (Tc) and the second tape (Tc).

A tape feeder includes a tape guideway that has an insertion port, a first tape transporter that transports a leading tape to a component extraction position in the tape guideway, a second tape transporter that transports the following tape from the insertion port to the first tape transporter, a following tape holder that has a first supporter that supports one side of an uninserted portion of the following tape in a width direction from a lower side, and a second supporter that supports the other side of the uninserted portion in a width direction from the lower side, and holds the uninserted portion of the following tape, and a displacer that displaces the uninserted portion of the following tape from the following tape holder. A width of one end portion of the second supporter decreases toward the insertion port.

A component supplying device includes a body portion including a component pick-up position, a tape path, first and second transfer portions, a control portion, and an input portion. The control portion includes a discharge processing portion which executes a discharge process in response to an instruction at the input, and a transfer processing portion which executes a transfer process after the discharge process. In the discharge process, a first component supply tape is transferred by the first transfer portion away from the first transfer position so that at least a part of the first component supply tape is discharged outside the body portion while holding the components. In the transfer process, a second component supply tape that is at the second transfer position is transferred by the second transfer portion toward the first transfer position, and transferred by the first transfer portion toward the component pick-up position.

A splicing device includes a drive device configured to cause a pressing surface of a first pressing member and a pressing surface of a second pressing member to reciprocate relatively towards and away from each other through a series of actions and a control device configured to stop temporarily the series of actions of the drive device in a pressing state where the first pressing member and the second pressing member press a first splicing tape and a second splicing tape against a first carrier tape and a second carrier tape through the series of actions of the drive device.

A production management computer totals the data of the component pickup operation quantity of the suction nozzle and the pickup error quantity sent from control device of each component mounter for each type of component, and calculates the ratio of the pickup quantity or the ratio of the pickup error quantity with respect to the component pickup operation quantity of the suction nozzle for each type of component as a component pickup rate. Here, production management computer separately calculates an after-feeder-setting component pickup rate, a main component pickup rate, a near-tape-trailing-end component pickup rate, and an after-splicing component pickup rate as component pickup rates for each type of component.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a production system and a control method for the production system that can suppress erroneous mounting when a tape feeder is shared and used even when latest tape feeder information is not shared among multiple production lines in a production system having multiple production lines. Information that matches the tape feeder database stored by the line management device is stored in the tape feeder. When the tape feeder is mounted on the mounting machine, the information stored in the tape feeder is read, and when it is determined that the information does not match the tape feeder database, mounting of the electronic component supplied from the tape feeder is stopped.

A tape processing method of reusing an opened component supplying tape used in a tape feeder which conveys the component supplying tape provided with a carrier tape including a plurality of component storing portions and a cover tape toward a component take out position, the tape feeder being configured to open a cover tape and convey the component supplying tape. The method includes steps of: repairing the component supplying tape by closing an opened portion of the cover tape and fixing by a repair tape to be returned to a state in which the component storing portion is covered by the cover tape; and cutting the component supplying tape at a predetermined cut position far away toward a downstream side in the conveying direction from a position of a head component located at the most downstream side in the conveying direction.