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 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 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.

A combination of batch exchange carts that includes all of the feeders that supply components to be used in the post-changeover production from the multiple batch exchange units prepared in preparation space is decided based on the component information of feeders loaded on batch exchange carts used in the pre-changeover production and setup information of batch exchange carts that can be used for exchange memorized in memory device (component information of feeders loaded on batch exchange carts in preparation space), and then an operator is notified of the decided combination of batch exchange carts by sound or by the display of a mobile terminal or display device of production management computer.

A setup change task setting device includes a number-of-feeders acquisition section configured to acquire the number of feeders required to be replaced in a wheeled table on which multiple feeders supplying components are installed to be replaceable during a setup change in which a board on which the components are mounted is changed from a current board type to a next board type in a component mounter in which the wheeled table is provided to be exchangeable, a task comparing section configured to compare relative merits of multiple types of setup change tasks in the wheeled table provided in the component mounter based on an acquisition result from the number-of-feeders acquisition section, and a task setting section configured to set any of the multiple types of setup change tasks for the wheeled table based on a comparison result from the task comparing section.

A production management apparatus of a board production line, which can prevent malfunction of the board production device in a test production process, and appropriately maintain the production environment, including: a permission determination section that, before transition from a test production process, in which the inspection device inspects a regulated number of initial boards produced by the board production device as a target, to a later main production process, determines permission for performing an operation command received by the board production device, based on a detection state and a detection result of an initial board by an inspection device; and a processing management section that controls processing of the operation command in the board production device based on a determination result by the permission determination section.

When a product is produced at the facility, a product ID of the product to be produced and setting values of a plurality of control parameters are received from a console terminal, and a transformation model corresponding to the combination of the product ID of the product to be produced and setting values of the plurality of the control parameters is read from a transformation model storage part. Then, in accordance with the read transformation model, the reference learning data stored in a reference learning data storage part is data-transformed and individual learning data corresponding to the product to be produced is generated, and with use of the individual learning data, whether measurement data output from sensors in the facility is abnormal is discriminated.

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.

The management device includes a management control section configured to set attachment position setting information including an attachment position of a feeder in a tendency such that the feeder is to be replaced in association with production switching to be attached to an attachment portion closer to a storage section based on production plan information including multiple pieces of mounting condition information.

An apparatus for assisting a setup work in a system having lines for producing types of products, each of the lines requesting the setup work for producing the product after switching of the type of product, includes a processor to calculate an earliest time when the setup work for each product in each line becomes executable based on the production-plan information, and when a difference between the earliest time when the setup work for a first product in a first line becomes executable and the earliest time when the setup work for a second product in a second line other than the first line becomes executable is equal or greater than a predetermined threshold value, determines that the setup work for the first product is executed before the setup work for the second product, and determines an execution order of the setup work for each product using a problem solver.