A system including: an automatic exchanging device configured to move along the multiple component mounters arranged in a line and automatically exchange automatically exchangeable units of the component mounters; an operation monitoring device configured to monitor an operation state of the automatically exchangeable units of the component mounters and monitor whether it is necessary to exchange the automatically exchangeable units due to maintenance or a breakdown; and a management device configured to, when the operation monitoring device determines that exchange of one of the automatically exchangeable units of the component mounters is necessary due to maintenance or a breakdown, move the automatic exchanging device to the component mounter in question and cause the automatic exchanging device to perform automatic exchange of the automatically exchangeable unit of the component mounter with an exchange-use unit.

A pick and place nozzle performance analytics system streams production data from pick and place machines used in electronic assembly to a cloud platform as torrential data streams, and performs analytics on the production data to track, visualize, and predict performance of individual nozzles in terms of rejects or miss-picks. The analytics system generates a performance vector for each nozzle based on the collected production data, the performance vector tracking both the accumulated rejects and the percentage of rejects as respective dimensions of an x-y plane. The system monitors and analyzes the trajectory of this vector in the x-y plane to predict when performance degradation of the nozzle will reach a critical threshold. In response to predicting that nozzle performance degradation will exceed a threshold at a future time, the system can generate and deliver notifications to appropriate client devices.

A work system includes multiple work devices aligned along a board conveyance line, a replenishing device having a sensor for detecting presence or absence of an interfering object and configured to move in parallel with the board conveyance line while detecting the presence or absence of the interfering object by the sensor to replenish necessary members to the multiple work devices, and a draw-out device configured to draw out at least one of the multiple work devices in a direction orthogonal to a direction along the board conveyance line. When a draw-out request for the work device is made, the replenishing device performs an automatic draw-out process of moving to a position in which a draw-out position of the work device to be pulled forward is included within a detection range of the sensor, so as to determine whether the interfering object is detected by the sensor.

An automated system including a control target device and a control device which controls the control target device, in which it is possible to accurately estimate whether maintenance of the control target device is required and a portion requiring maintenance. The control device is an adaptive control device including a position control system, an adaptive identifier which estimates a parameter indicating a state of a control target device based on a control command and a control target output from the control target device, and an adaptive compensator which, based on the parameter which is estimated by the adaptive identifier, compensates the control command from the position control system to the control target device such that the control target device performs a planned operation regardless of a change in the parameter.

A component transfer device including: a component mounting tool mounted on a movable mounting head, the component mounting tool being configured to collect a component from a component supply device and mount the component on a board; a side imaging section configured to image the component held by the component mounting tool from the side; a cleaning nozzle having an emission port on a side surface only of the cleaning nozzle that opens toward the side imaging section; and a positive pressure air supply section configured to supply positive pressure air to the cleaning nozzle and blow out the positive pressure air from the emission port toward the side imaging section.

A feeder maintenance device manages history information including at least one of a usage count of a consumable part or a measurement value of the consumable part used in a cleaning section, and displays information on a usage state of the consumable part as a consumable parts screen based on history information. With feeder maintenance device, information related to the consumable part can be reported to an operator. Also, with feeder maintenance device, because an operator can replace or replenish a consumable part, it is possible to perform maintenance processing of feeder more reliably.

A feeder management system includes a storage section configured to store component information including a type of a component loaded in a bulk feeder and cleaning information providing an execution history of cleaning including, as its cleaning target, at least a conveyance path along which the component is conveyed in the bulk feeder in association with the bulk feeder, and a determination section configured to determine whether the cleaning is executed before an update request for the component information is made based on the cleaning information when the update request for the component information is received.

A member preparation method includes a request rank determining step of determining a request member rank of a member fitted to production of a mounting board based on board information and component information including a mounting position of a component mounted on the mounting board. Furthermore, the member preparation method includes a fitting member extracting step of extracting a fitting member fitted to the request member rank in a plurality of members based on a production plan of the mounting board and retained member information in which a member rank is associated with each of the plurality of the members. Furthermore, the member preparation method includes a use member selecting step of selecting a use member in the fitting member, and a member preparation instructing step of generating an instruction to prepare the use member.

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 system for determining a degree of contamination of production units of a production line for the printing, equipping and reflow soldering of printed circuit boards, and evaluation unit.