A board production management device for managing a board production line including a solution memory section for linking and storing a problem event that may occur in a board production line and that requires a countermeasure operation, a solution to serve as the countermeasure operation, and a set authority level set for a worker who may implement the solution; an solution memory section for authenticating the authority level of a worker who implements the countermeasure operation; and a solution notification section for separately reporting, when a problem event occurs, an executable solution corresponding to a set authority level equal to or less than the authority level, and an unexecutable solution corresponding to a set authority level exceeding the authority level.

An operation status display device displays an operation status of a board work machine, in which an operator replenishes an article to be used in production of a board product, and the operation status display device includes an acquisition section and a display section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire a first time, which is a wait time from when the article is insufficient in the board work machine to when the operator starts replenishment work of the article, and a second time, which is a work time from when the operator starts the replenishment work to when the article is replenished in the board work machine. The display section is configured to display the first time and the second time when the article is insufficient in the board work machine to when the article is replenished.

A work management system is applied to a work area in which a predetermined work is executed by a worker and a robot. The work management system includes a control section configured to control the robot such that a specified operation set in advance is included in an operation by the robot executing the predetermined work, an information acquisition section configured to acquire work information indicating a presence or absence of the specified operation in at least one of an execution result and an execution process of the predetermined work, and an identification section configured to identify whether a work subject of the predetermined work is the worker or the robot based on the work information acquired by the information acquisition section.

Proposed is a method for controlling a boat carrier/substrate strip type solder ball placement system that allows solder ball mounting processes for a boat carrier type of a material and a substrate strip type of a material to be all performed in one system. In specific, the method allows the components or operation setting of the system to be automatically controlled according to the types of materials loaded on a magazine, thereby performing solder ball mounting processes for the two types of materials with high speed and high accuracy. In more specific, the method allows a component applied only to the solder ball mounting process for the boat carrier type of material and a component applied to the solder ball mounting process for the substrate strip type of material to be integrated with each other as a single component in the process of mounting the solder balls on the material on-loaded, thereby making it possible to perform the solder ball mounting processes for the two different types of materials in one system.

The image processing device displays, on a display, a virtual screen obtained by viewing, from above, an aggregate board in which multiple unit boards having a common component configuration are arranged. A control section of the image processing device uses one unit board at a predetermined position among the multiple unit boards as a reference unit board, generates a detailed image in which respective components are arranged on the unit board based on positional information of all components to be mounted on the unit boards, for the reference unit board, generates a simplified image obtained by simplifying the unit board, for a non-reference unit board other than the reference unit board among the multiple unit boards, and displays a simple virtual screen displaying the detailed image at a position of the reference unit board and the simplified image at a position of the non-reference unit board as the virtual screen.

A trace assistance device includes a memory section, an acquisition section, and an output section. The memory section stores a manipulation log and an operation log. When a predetermined trigger event occurs during the board work, the acquisition section acquires at least one target manipulation history related to the trigger event, a target operation history associated with the target manipulation history, a comparison manipulation history that is the same as or similar to the target manipulation history, and a comparison operation history associated with the comparison manipulation history from the manipulation log and the operation log stored in the memory device. The output section is configured to output an operation of the board production line recorded in the target operation history and an operation of the board production line recorded in the comparison operation history, which are acquired by the acquisition section, in a comparable manner.

Method for positioning and orienting a first object relative to a second object. The method includes positioning a near field transducer having an aperture on the first object, and directing a laser light toward the aperture of the near field transducer on the first object to create an effervescent wave on the other side of the aperture. Positioning a sensor on the second object for detecting the effervescent wave from the near field transducer. Providing an algorithm, and using information obtained from the sensor on the second object in the algorithm to control a nanopositioning system to position one of the first object and the second object in a desired position and orientation relative to the other one of the first object and the second object.

A computer automatic assembly system is proposed. The computer automatic assembly system includes: a database for storing information of an assembly and mounting area of a part combined to a mainboard, and program information such as information of a BIOS, a driving driver, and an operating system, and periodically updating the corresponding information through a communication part including a wired/wireless communication network; a device digestive module for checking the part through a photographing means, moving the checked part to the assembly and mounting area of the part provided on the mainboard through the photographing means and a robot arm for transfer, assembling, and mounting the part, and then writing a driving program and circuit information of the part; and an administrator terminal for periodically upgrading or updating part information necessary for the device digestive module by a part company server through a communication network including the wired/wireless communication network.

A component mounting management apparatus having a display. A timing chart indicating the execution history of the component mounting operation is displayed on the display. In this timing chart, a plurality of marks corresponding to a plurality of boards, respectively, are arranged along the time axis. Each of the marks is disposed at a position on the time axis in accordance with the execution timing of the component mounting operation on the board corresponding to the mark and has a width depending on the operation time needed to perform the component mounting operation on the board corresponding to the mark along the time axis. That is, each of the plurality of marks arranged along the time axis in the timing chart indicates the execution timing and the operation time of the component mounting operation on the corresponding board.

A device for estimating a cause of a mounting error includes a first determination section configured to perform a process of determining whether the error occurrence status is biased under a condition that an individual as the first factor is specified according to a difference in the second factor, on each of multiple individuals as the first factor, a second determination section configured to perform a process of determining whether the error occurrence status is biased under a condition that an individual as the second factor is specified according to a difference in the first factor, on each of multiple individuals as the second factor, and a cause estimation section configured to estimate a causative individual causing the mounting error based on determination results in the first determination section and the second determination section.