The tape feeder set-up system has a tape feeder, having an electric motor, for feeding a carrier tape wound on a reel and accommodating multiple components in a predetermined feed direction; a loading table on which the tape feeder can be loaded; a scheduled use determination section for determining whether a component in the tape feeder loaded on the loading table is scheduled to be used based on a component usage schedule, and a control section for reversing the carrier tape in a direction opposite to the predetermined feed direction by controlling the electric motor of the tape feeder when the scheduled use determination section determines that the component is not scheduled to be used.

A coordinate data generation device is used in a component mounter configured to perform processing for mounting electronic components on boards of different dimensions by imaging the board that is controlled to be conveyed and stopped at a target position and performing the mounting of the electronic components after correcting for a deviation between a stopping position of the board identified from an image captured by the imaging and a target position, and specifies an imaging region for imaging the board stopped at the stopping position.

A component mounting system that includes a component mounter in which multiple component supply units are detachably arranged in a supply area and mounts components on a board based on a job. The system performs a preparatory arrangement control for dividing the component supply units required for the job into multiple, and controlling the unit exchange device to make an arrangement of the component supply units in each group match an arrangement order in the supply area, and a supply arrangement control for controlling the unit exchange device to automatically exchange the component supply units, and to arrange the component supply units required for the job after switching in the supply area.

A production plan creation computer, in a production plan creation process before starting production, creates or enters multiple production jobs required for producing the multiple types of component-mounted boards that are planned to be produced, and predicts or enters a production job that may become a jump-the-queue job to be produced unscheduled while one of the multiple production jobs is being produced. Next, the jump-the-queue job and the production jobs are grouped into multiple setup groups, with the jump-the-queue job being included in all the setup groups. Here, the jobs are grouped in each setup group such that it is possible to switch between the production jobs and the jump-the-queue job without performing changeover. The priorities of the jump-the-queue job and the production jobs are determined, and the feeder arrangement is optimized for each setup group based on the priorities of the jump-the-queue job and the production jobs.

The mounting system includes a mounting device including a mounting section, a supply section, and a mounting control section, and a moving work management device. The moving work management device creates loading order information including the loading order of the feeders to be loaded to the loading section with preference given to the feeders to be used in the current production over the feeders to be used in the next production onward based on multiple pieces of feeder arrangement information and the order of use of the multiple feeders, the multiple pieces of feeder arrangement information handling each of multiple pieces of mounting condition information for producing multiple types of mounting targets including the arrangement positions of the feeders created corresponding to positions shared among the productions of multiple types of mounting targets.

An optimization processing computer, before production starts, sends a production job on which optimization processing was performed but is incomplete to each component mounter, causes an automatic exchanging device to operate so as to change the feeder arrangement of each component mounter to a feeder arrangement specified in the production job, then causes each component mounter to operate so as to start production. After production is started, optimization processing on the production job is continued by the optimization processing computer, and during production, an updated production job for which optimization has progressed is acquired from the optimization processing computer so as to update the production job being executed by each component mounter, then the automatic exchanging device is operated so as to change the feeder arrangement of each component mounter to a feeder arrangement specified in the production job, then production continues.

An automatic exchanging device for moving in an arrangement direction of multiple component mounting machines alongside the front face of a component mounting line to set feeders to and/or remove feeders from a feeder setting base of each component mounting machine, and a control device for controlling the movement of the automatic exchanging device. The control device monitors the operational states of the multiple component mounting machines and, when an error requiring the work of the operator occurs in any one of the component mounting machines, sets a predetermined range including the component mounting machine to a movement prohibited area of the automatic exchanging device to move the automatic exchanging device out of the movement prohibited area until it is determined that the work is completed.

A method of determining disposition of a component reel, for determining component reel disposition in which the component reel obtained by winding a component accommodating tape is disposed in a holding unit, includes: acquiring component reel information including information for identifying the component reel, holding unit information including information related to a layout that is capable of being selected when the component reel is disposed in the holding unit, disposition information of the component supply device supplying the component accommodating tape drawn out from the component reel disposed in the holding unit, and constraint condition information related to the component supply device and the component accommodating tape to be supplied to the component supply device; and determining the component reel disposition in which one component reel firstly used by the component supply device among a plurality of the component reels and a next component reel used next by the component supply device among the plurality of component reels are disposed, based on the acquired component reel information, the acquired holding unit information, the acquired disposition information, and the acquired constraint condition information.

A method for optimizing component type arrangement in which multiple component types are optimally disposed on multiple installation positions when an automatic feeder device which automatically loads the component storage tape, a manual feeder device which does not automatically load the component storage tape, and a reel holding device are installed into the installation positions on a common pallet, the method includes a step of determining a portion of the multiple installation positions as a fixed position and fixing the determined automatic feeder device to the fixed position; and an optimizing step of performing a simulation optimally disposing the multiple component types on the multiple installation positions under a condition that the manual feeder device can be moved to an arbitrary installation position other than the fixed position without moving the automatic feeder device from the fixed position.

In a component supply unit arrangement determination method for a mounter, in which multiple component supply units are exchangeably arranged and which mounts a component on a board based on a job, as the component supply unit to be exchanged for the component supply unit to be newly arranged due to switching of multiple jobs whose execution order is determined, the component supply unit is selected such that a time interval from a job, in which the component supply unit is to be used last, to the switching is long, among the component supply units that are arranged before the switching and are not planned to be used in a job after the switching. In addition, an arrangement position of the selected component supply unit is determined as an arrangement position of the component supply unit to be newly arranged.