Provided is a method for populating printed circuit boards, which includes the steps of registering jobs in each case relating to the population of a number of printed circuit boards of a printed circuit board type with components of predetermined component types, assigning printed circuit board types of the registered jobs to a predetermined number of fixed set-up families, optimizing the assignment in such a way that a characteristic number relating to all the pick-and-place lines of the pick-and-place system is optimized as far as possible, and populating the printed circuit boards on one of the pick-and-place lines by using one of the fixed set-ups.

A substrate manufacturing machine (component mounter) includes a substrate type setting section configured to set next and subsequent substrate types to be manufactured subsequently to a current substrate type currently being manufactured, a substrate type checking section configured to check whether the set next and subsequent substrate types are correct, a manufacturing condition investigation section configured to examine whether a manufacturing condition for manufacturing substrates of the next and subsequent substrate types is satisfied, and a manufacturing authorization section configured to authorize manufacturing of the substrates of the next and subsequent substrate types in a case where the next and subsequent substrate types are correct and the manufacturing condition is satisfied.

A mounting device comprises: a mounting head having multiple pickup members configured to pick up components; a mounting control section configured to cause a second component to be picked up later when a first component, held by the mounting head at a predetermined height, and the second component, held by the mounting head at a lowered position lower than the predetermined height, are picked up with the mounting head; the mounting control section being configured to cause the second component to be released earlier when the mounting head, having picked up the first component and the second component, releases a component.

An operation state display device displays an operation state of a board production facility in which a board is sequentially conveyed to multiple board work machines, which perform predetermined board work on the board, and the board work is sequentially performed to produce a board product, and includes an acquisition section and a display section. The acquisition section acquires an execution time zone in which setup changing work required for switching a type of the board product to be produced is performed, for each board work machine, based on production information acquired by the board production facility during production of the board product. The display section graphically displays at least one of the execution time zone for each of the multiple board work machines and the execution time zone for a predetermined board work machine of the board production facility in time series.

A component mounting system includes a component mounter group, a storage, and a loader. The storage is provided on an upstream side or a downstream side of the component mounter group and has a storage area in which multiple component supply devices are arranged and supported detachably. The loader automatically takes out and/or attach the component supply devices from and/or to the component mounters and the storage. When an occupancy state of the component supply device supported by the storage area reaches a predetermined high occupancy state, the control section of the component mounting system outputs at least one of a recovery urging warning for prompting recovery of the component supply devices supported by the storage area and a replenishment prohibition warning for prohibiting replenishment of the component supply device used in a next production or later onto the storage area.

Provided is a transmission device for feedback-free unidirectional transmission of data from a first network zone into a second network zone for evaluation at a remote application server, containing: —a data export device which is arranged in the first network zone and is to detect the data transmitted in a network data format in the first network zone and to transform the data from the network data format into a transport data format, —a unidirectional data transmission unit, to transmit the data in the transport data format into the second network zone unidirectionally—a data import device which transforms the data from the transport data format back into the network data format and to transmit the data to an application server, wherein the data import device and the application server are arranged in a second network zone remote from the first zone, and to a corresponding method.

The simulation device includes a simulation section and a calculation section. A simulation section is configured to simulate an operating status of a board work machine configured to perform predetermined board work on a board and produce a board product, and an operating status of an article moving device configured to supply an article needed for production of the board product to the board work machine based on a production plan of the board product. A calculation section is configured to calculate a production stop time of the board work machine caused by a wait time from when production of the board product by the board work machine is stopped to when the article is supplied by the article moving device based on a result of simulation by the simulation section.

A production management device, such as a production management computer, determines a production sequence of plural types of substrates in order to produce the substrates consecutively on a product type-by-type basis by using a component mounter including component supply devices. The production management device includes a main control unit for determining a production sequence of substrates such that, where a time from start to completion of off-line setup of all the component supply devices to be used for a single product type of substrate is defined as an off-line setup time, a sum of the off-line setup times for two product types of substrates to be consecutively produced is balanced over an entire period of consecutive production.

A production management device, which manages a production schedule of a component mounting line, executes a remote operation mode for remotely operating a component mounter to perform a test operation according to an input operation of an operator, in addition to an automatic production mode in which an automated replacement operation of an automated replacement robot is managed according to the production schedule to produce a component mounting board. The production management device determines, when in the remote operation mode, whether a feeder configured to supply components necessary for the test operation is set in the component mounter, and when the feeder that supplies the necessary components is not set in the component mounter, moves the automated replacement robot to the component mounter and sets the feeder configured to supply the necessary components in the component mounter to cause the component mounter to perform the test operation.

The feeder management device is a device that manages selection of a tape feeder to be set at each set position defined for each component in a component feeding unit of a component-mounting device. The feeder management device includes a memory unit and a feeder selection management unit. The memory unit stores list information indicating, for each component, whether or not to use a tape feeder of a special type among a plurality of tape feeders different in method of supplying the component storage tape, the tape feeder of the special type supplying the component storage tape easily. The feeder selection management unit refers to the list information stored in the memory unit, and manages selection of the tape feeder for each component, the selection corresponding to each set position in the component feeding unit of the component-mounting device.