A working machine causes a working mechanism to install, on a workpiece, a storing-target body stored in a tape. The working machine includes: a storing-target-body supply device that supplies the storing-target body stored in the tape to the working mechanism; and a drive device that gives a drive force to the storing-target-body supply device. The storing-target-body supply device includes a supply-reel storage that stores a supply reel around which the tape storing the storing-target body is wound, a tape feed mechanism that unwinds the tape from the supply reel so as to feed the storing-target body to a predetermined supply position, and a drive transmitting mechanism that transmits, to the tape feed mechanism, the drive force given from the drive device.

Motor control system (10) includes position detection device (14), controller (12), and motor control device (16). Motor control device (16) includes a shift amount calculation unit that calculates a predicted arrival position of moving unit (50) based on positional information indicating a position of moving unit (50) detected by using position detection device (14) and distance information indicating a future moving distance of moving unit (50) based on an operation command, calculates a shift amount between the predicted arrival position and a target position of moving unit (50), and outputs information indicating the shift amount between the predicted arrival position and the target position. The shift amount calculation unit determines a reference point in time in consideration of at least one of an acquisition time required to acquire the positional information and an acquisition time required to acquire the distance information, acquires or calculates the position and the future moving distance of moving unit (50) at the reference point in time, and calculates the predicted arrival position based on the position and the future moving distance of moving unit (50) at the reference point in time.

A system and method for surface mount assembly of PCB's, using an automated pick-and-place machine into which component tapes on reels are fed, uses component tape reels each of which has been pre-threaded into its appropriate tape guide and been stored as a reel/tape guide packet in an automated SMD storage tower, from which appropriate packets are retrieved for coupling to the pick-and-place machine.

After a reel of a Moisture Sensitive Device is dispatched from a component keeping area and setup to a tape feeder is performed in an external setup area, exposure time for which the Moisture Sensitive Device is in an atmospheric exposure state is timed in a reel unit, and the exposure time is compared with exposure limit time set for the Moisture Sensitive Device and stored in a storage part. An electronic component mounting apparatus equipped with the reel of the Moisture Sensitive Device whose exposure time exceeds the exposure limit time is specified, and work by the apparatus is stopped.

There is provided technology which is a component mounting machine which mounts electronic components onto a circuit substrate and is capable of displaying a movable region of an inner portion of the component mounting machine within a same image. The component mounting machine is provided with a fixed camera which monitors the inner portion of the component mounting machine and a display section which is capable of displaying a captured image of the fixed camera. The fixed camera is capable of imaging a range from a pickup position at which the suction nozzle picks up the electronic component which is supplied from the component feeder to a mounting position at which the electronic component is mounted onto the circuit substrate within the same image.

An automatic SMD storage tower has a shelfless interior for variable spacing of electronic component reels on pallets or as integral reel/guide units, with a great number of affixing locations on the interior of the SMD storage tower thereby increasing the storage capacity and ease of use. The technology disclosed also includes a reel pallet with shape defined places for holding a component reel and a tape guide with the component tape threaded therethrough.

A component mounting system starts mounting processing in a state in which a portion of the initial set target feeders of the multiple feeders required for mounting processing are set in supply area of component mounter, and in which remaining feeders are not set in supply area of component mounter. Mounting processing is performed while switching feeders that have finished supplying components with remaining feeders using exchange robot during mounting processing of a single board. By this, because it is possible to perform mounting processing while exchanging required feeders within the range of the upper limit loading quantity of component mounter, it is possible to improve the efficiency of mounting processing.

In a component mounting machine, before the suction nozzle held by the rotary head is automatically exchanged, the nozzle ID codes of all suction nozzles arranged on the nozzle station are continuously read at a high speed and stored in association with the position of each suction nozzle. Sequentially imaging the nozzle ID code display section of each suction nozzle of each column is performed without stopping the mark imaging camera while moving the camera in an arrangement direction of the suction nozzle of each column of the nozzle station. The movement direction of the camera is reversed each time the last imaging operation of one column is completed and the camera is moved to imaging an adjacent column and the nozzle ID code of each suction nozzle of each column read at the image processing is stored in the storage in association with the position of each suction nozzle.

An allowable value setting device sets an allowable value of a deviation amount between a target pickup position and an actual pickup position in a component when the component is picked up by a suction nozzle. The allowable value setting device includes a first setting section and a second setting section. The first setting section sets a first allowable value, which is the allowable value for each component type of the component to be mounted on a board. The second setting section sets a second allowable value, which is the allowable value that is set for each mounting coordinate of the component and smaller than the first allowable value of the component of the same component type set by the first setting section, the second allowable value being preferentially adopted over the first allowable value in a suction process of the component.

In a nozzle management system provided with multiple nozzle management devices, a control device includes a housed nozzle information acquisition section that acquires information related to all suction nozzles housed in multiple nozzle management devices, first determination section that determines whether all the required suction nozzles to be transferred to a nozzle tray are housed in a prescribed nozzle housing device, and a second determination section that determines whether non-housed suction nozzles which are not housed in the prescribed nozzle housing device from among the required suction nozzles are housed in another suction nozzle housing device.