Patent ID: 6516514
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for equipping a substrate with a plurality of components of respectively different component types, comprising the steps of:providing at least a first processing area and a second processing area through which a substrate is successively moveable; at each of said first and second processing areas, disposing an equipping head in connection with a number of supply units, each of said supply units containing only components of one component type; determining a number of said different component types to be placed on said substrate and comparing said number of different component types to be placed on said substrate with said number of supply units; if said number of different component types to be placed on said substrate is less than or equal to said number of supply units, equipping said substrate in only one of said processing areas; and if said number of different component types to be placed on said substrate is greater than said number of supply units, successively equipping said substrate in at least said first and second processing areas.