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.

A method for populating circuit boards by equipment on a populating line. The method includes acts of providing the equipment comprising a number of component types sufficient to populate a setup family of circuit board types assigned to the equipment, acquiring a number of the circuit board types with assigned circuit boards configured to be populated on the populating line within the planning horizon, assigning the circuit board types to the fixed equipment setup family, determining an assignment quality from a number of orders during a planning interval, optimizing the assignment of the circuit board types to the fixed equipment setup family by a mixed integer programming until the assignment quality exceeds a predetermined amount, and populating the circuit boards on the populating line with the components from the plurality of shuttle tables by at least one populating robot.

A mounting machine acquires identification information arranged in a back-up plate, from the back-up plate. The mounting machine controls a conveyance unit so as to change a conveyance lane based on mounting conditions when the acquired identification information is identification information which is included in the mounting conditions of a printed circuit board. Meanwhile, in the mounting machine, when the acquired identification information is not the identification information which is included in the mounting conditions of the printed circuit board, the conveyance lane is stopped from being changed. In this manner, a conveyance width of the conveyance lane is not changed when the back-up plate which is ready to be subjected to mounting processing and matches the mounting conditions is not mounted.

A component mounting system includes a component mounter group, a storage section configured to store multiple production jobs, and a grouping execution section configured to allocate, when grouping the multiple production jobs, production jobs having a degree of commonality in type of components included in each production job satisfying a predetermined determination criterion to the same group, in which the group is set to perform an individual exchange of the component supply device without performing a collective exchange of a pallet of each component mounter when processing the production job belonging to the same group, and to perform the collective exchange of the pallet of each component mounter and not to perform the individual exchange of the component supply device when processing the production job belonging to different groups.

A component mounting station is divided into two component mounting areas in a board conveyance direction according to the size of circuit boards used in two types of production that are performed in order, and the area in which a backup pin is arranged on a backup plate is divided into two pin arrangement areas corresponding to the two component mounting areas. The quantity of backup pins necessary to support the component mounting board are arranged in a predetermined arrangement pattern, the circuit boards transported using the conveyor are stopped in the component mounting areas according to the type of component mounting board produced, the backup plate is lifted up, and the circuit boards are clamped by the clamp member, and the circuit boards supported by the backup pins in the pin arrangement areas are positioned below the circuit boards, and components are mounted on the circuit boards.

An external set-up device calculates a shift amount of a supply position of a component which is supplied by a tape feeder that is disposed on the carriage. The storage stores supply position shifting data in which the shift amount of the component supply position is related to a feeder address and a feeder ID. The component mounter compares the feeder ID of the tape feeder with the feeder ID included in the component supply position shifting data which is read from the storage, and, in a case in which the feeder IDs do not match, calculates the shift amount of the component supply position of the corresponding tape feeder and updates the supply position shifting data. The component mounter mounts the components onto a board based on the updated component supply position shifting data.

A component mounting system includes at least one component mounter that is provided with a first board transport mechanism, a second board transport mechanism, a first mounting mechanism and a second mounting mechanism that mount components on a board, and a plurality of carriages that is respectively installed on the side of the first board transport mechanism and on the side of the second board transport mechanism and holds a plurality of tape feeders (component supply devices). When changing a production board type of a first board transported by the first board transport mechanism, the components are supplied from the component supply device held by a first carriage, a second carriage, and a third carriage, and the components are mounted on a second board that does not change the production board type by the first mounting mechanism and the second mounting mechanism.

A component mounter including a control device configured to perform communication control with component supply device, a control device including guidance control section configured to issue guidance of a mounting position of component supply device to which carrier tape should be inserted based on information of the component stored in the carrier tape, a check control section configured to determine whether the carrier tape has been correctly inserted to the mounting position as guided by guidance control section, based on a recognition signal of tape insertion recognition section configured to recognize insertion of the carrier tape into tape insertion opening, and a supply command sending section configured to send a component supply command to the feeder at the mounting position in a case in which it is determined that the carrier tape has been inserted to the mounting position as guided by guidance control section.

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 leeder 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.

When a board to be produced is switched, it is possible to automatically discharge an unnecessary carrier tape 100 without detaching a feeder. For this, a control device 15 of a component mounting apparatus 10 includes: a component determination section S106 which determines a component not to be used in production of the next board when boards to be produced by the component mounting apparatus 10 are switched, and a discharge instruction section 110 which sends an instruction of discharging a carrier tape 100 which accommodates a component determined not to be used in the production of the next board by the component determination section S106 to a tape insertion port 21d.