A component determination system for determining, in a case when a first component to be mounted on a board by a first mounting operation and a second component mounted on the board by a second mounting operation have a particular corresponding relationship, whether a combination of the first component and the second component mounted is permissible, the component determination system including: a first characteristic information acquiring section configured to acquire first characteristic information of the first component for which the first mounting operation has been completed; a second characteristic information acquiring section configured to acquire second characteristic information of the second component prepared prior to the second mounting operation; and a combination determining section configured to determine whether to allow the combination of the first component and the second component based on the acquired first characteristic information and the acquired second characteristic information.

Provided is a method for allocating assemblies to placement lines for placing components on the assemblies, wherein an expected production time is determined for each assembly type of the assemblies to be provided with components and for each placement line, taking into consideration each cycle time for the assembly type on the placement line and the expected number of pieces to be produced for each assembly type. The actual number of pieces to be produced arises according to a predeterminable probability distribution, wherein the possible allocations of assemblies to the placement lines are restricted by the existing infrastructure and/or by user defined specifications, and the allocation of the assemblies to the placement lines is calculated by means of an optimization method.

A board work device includes a housing device, a holding device, a moving device, a first lane and a second lane, a corresponding relationship acquisition device, a priority order acquisition device, and a control device. The holding device exchangeably holds a board work tool that performs a board work on a board. The corresponding relationship acquisition device acquires a corresponding relationship between the types of the board work tool and each of the multiple board works for each of the boards. The control device controls the holding device and the moving device such that, when performing the board work based on the acquired corresponding relationship, in a predetermined case, the board work that is capable of being performed in the other lane is performed without exchanging the board work tool currently being held

The control device controls an operation of a mounting head of an electronic component mounting machine. The control device is used when an electronic component is mounted on a printed circuit board including multiple divided boards by using the mounting head having multiple suction nozzles. In the control device, some of the multiple divided boards within the printed circuit board are set as one group based on positions of the multiple suction nozzles and positions of the multiple divided boards within the printed circuit board. In addition, in the control device, the multiple suction nozzles suck the electronic components to be mounted on the divided board within one group at the same time.

A work management device includes an operator information memory section, a work item memory section, an operator detection sections, and a work instruction section. The operator detection sections are installed at a plurality of spots of the electronic component mounting line and detect the operators near the spots. In a case in which the operator detection section detects the operator, when operator information regarding the operator is identical to operator information in the operator information memory section and the work item group of the work item memory section includes one work item or a plurality of work items which are able to be performed by the operator detected by the operator detection section, the work instruction section instructs the operator detected by the operator detection section in one work item or a plurality of work items selected from the one work item or the plurality of work items.

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 component mounting device includes a mounting head that mounts a component at a mounting position on a substrate, and a control unit that determines a mounting state of another component mounted in advance around the mounting position based on height information of a region around the mounting position.

A mounting device for executing a mounting process of mounting a component on a board includes: a mounting head that includes at least one pickup section for picking up the component and moves the picked up component; a storage section configured to store at least a first correction value determined at a first position on XYZ axes on which the mounting head works and a second correction value determined at a second position different from the first position; and a control section configured to execute the mounting process by using the first correction value and/or the second correction value stored in the storage section.

A management apparatus for an accommodation member that accommodates components to be mounted on a board includes a memory to reserve identification information on the accommodation member required for a production of the board to each arrangement position of the accommodation member in the mounting device, and to store reservation information defining an order of use of multiple accommodation members for each production at the same arrangement position according to the number of components required for the production; and a management section configured to set the accommodation member scheduled to be finally used at each arrangement position in each production of the board based on the reservation information as a final accommodation member, and to manage the final accommodation member and other accommodation members other than the final accommodation member based on the identification information on the accommodation members in a distinguishable manner for an operator.

Provided is a method for determining set-up families for a pick-and-place line for populating circuit boards with electronic components one or more component types, the method including the following steps: detecting a predetermined or predeterminable number of set-up families; wherein a set-up family is defined as a quantity of circuit boards that can be populated on a pick-and-place line without changing the quantity of component types kept ready for population on the pick-and-place line; wherein an assignment of circuit boards to be distributed to the detected number of set-up families is optimized by integer linear programming in such a way that the sum of the numbers of component types per set-up family is minimized; and populating the circuit boards in the set-up family assigned to them.