Patent ID: 11912412
Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 19:
20. A method for conveying a component in a substrate working system comprising a plurality of substrate working apparatuses that are configured to perform work on a substrate on which the component is mounted, the method comprising:
acquiring necessary article information from the plurality of substrate working apparatuses;
operating a component conveyance flight vehicle to convey a conveyance article by flying from a component storage, spaced apart from the plurality of substrate working apparatuses and configured to store at least one of a device and the component to be used by the substrate working apparatuses, to a predetermined position corresponding to a predetermined substrate working apparatus while holding the conveyance article including at least one of the device and the component based on the necessary article information;
making the component conveyance flight vehicle fly over the substrate working apparatuses so as to convey the conveyance article at a short distance from the component storage to the predetermined position; and
setting an order in which the component conveyance flight vehicle conveys the conveyance article based on information related to a shortage of the component from substrate working apparatuses inside a factory, after that, transmit a conveyance command signal to the component conveyance flight vehicle for conveying the component inside the factory along a flight path based on the order,
wherein the flight path is a path that the component conveyance flight vehicle departs from the component storage and returns to the component storage and in the path the component is conveyed to each of the substrate working apparatuses in accordance with the order.