A system including multiple inspection machines and an NG board discharge machine which moves an NG board to a checking position visible to a worker. The system acquires positional information of a circuit board during conveyance, and stores the NG board by associating a work result for the NG board with the positional information. In this manner, the positional information of the NG board is acquired. Based on the positional information, it is determined whether or not the circuit board conveyed to the NG board discharge machine is the NG board. When the circuit board conveyed to the NG board discharge machine is the NG board, a checking-purpose working machine discharges the NG board to the checking position.

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 component supply device includes a transport path that guides a component connected body from a component insertion port on an upstream side in a component feeding direction to a component supply position on a downstream side, the component connected body including a plurality of axial components arranged and connected at a predetermined pitch, the plurality of axial components each having a lead, and a feed mechanism that pitch-feeds the component connected body along the transport path to the downstream side. The feed mechanism includes a feed member which has a plurality of feed hooks disposed at the predetermined pitch along the component feeding direction, a rotating shaft which is connected to one end side of the feed member, and a moving mechanism which is connected to the feed member through the rotating shaft and reciprocates the rotating shaft along the component feeding direction. A length of one feed hook among the plurality of feed hooks is longer than a length of an other feed hook among the plurality of feed hooks, the other feed hook being adjacent to the one feed hook on the rotating shaft side.

A component placing device to place a component on a board, including: a shaft having a lower portion and an upper portion; a component holder that is attached to the lower portion of the shaft in a state of being vertically displaceable and has a suction hole for holding the component by a negative pressure; an elastic body that biases the component holder downward with respect to the shaft; a servo motor that raises and lowers the shaft; and a controller that sets a thrust limit value for limiting a thrust of the servo motor and limits the thrust of the servo motor to be equal to or lower than the thrust limit value when the component holder is lowered toward the board. The thrust limit value is set within a range in which a load is smaller than a force by which the elastic body biases the component holder.

A production system includes: a substrate counter configured to count the number of substrates existing in a production line including a mounting device; a mark pattern acquisition unit configured to acquire a mark pattern indicating a pattern of a mark that is provided to each of the plurality of substrates counted by the substrate counter; a determination unit configured to determine whether the respective mark patterns of the plurality of substrates acquired by the mark pattern acquisition unit are the same as each other; and a detection controller configured to control a detection process of the mark pattern by the mounting device based upon a determination result of the determination unit.

A tracing device includes an appropriateness determination section configured to determine whether an image processing, which is executed in a production process of a board product by a board work machine, satisfies an appropriateness condition indicating reliability of a result of the image processing when the result of the image processing stays within a permissible range in which the result of the image processing is determined normal and an information management section configured to record image data used in the image processing as traceability information according to the result of the determination made by the appropriateness condition determination section.

A component mounting system includes a component mounting device including a component mounting unit configured to mount a component on a substrate, and a controller, and a server configured to be communicable with the controller. The controller is configured or programmed to acquire a plurality of types of operating state changes that are likely to cause a quality defect, and to transmit, to the server, information according to the types of the operating state changes. The server is configured to provide information indicating an inspection type for the substrate based on the information according to the types of the operating state changes.

A component mounting system has a supply reel accommodating a component, a plurality of mounting lines each having a mounting apparatus and a line management apparatus, and a central network that provides direct communication between the line management apparatuses of each mounting line. A remaining number of components on the supply reel is determined based on cross line communication between the line management apparatuses and comparison of data at different times stored on the line management apparatuses. Such architecture does not require the use of a central server. Rather, the system is a material information exchange system without a single point of failure, where no one computer failure can cause an entire factory shutdown.

A trace memory that stores trace logs of multiple feeders set on a feeder setting table of a component mounter is provided in the feeder setting table, and while the component mounter is operating, trace logs of each feeder are output from the control sections of the multiple feeders on the feeder setting table to the feeder setting table, and are stored by a communication control section of the feeder setting table in the trace memory linked to identification information of each feeder. By this, it is possible to save trace logs from multiple feeders on the feeder setting table all together in a shared trace memory, such that it is not necessary to load trace memory on each feeder, thereby meeting requirements of compact feeders and lower costs.

A production management system of a component mounting line that includes component mounters that identify a board ID of a circuit board conveyed during production, send the board ID to a production management computer of the production management system, measure actual data for early-stage-discovery of a mounting defect at a specified interval during production, and send the measurement results to the production management computer. The production management computer saves the board IDs sent from each of the component mounters with a time stamp, monitors whether there is a possibility of a mounting defect based on the measurement result, extracts board IDs of circuit boards on which components were mounted at the component mounters since the previous time measurement was performed if there is the possibility of a mounting defect, and displays a list of the circuit boards with a possible mounting defect.