Patent ID: 8447566
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A mounting condition determining method for determining a mounting condition for a mounter which includes two mounting heads, two component supply units, and plural carrier conveyors, and which performs, in parallel, component mounting operations on boards to be carried by each of the plural carrier conveyors, each of the two component supply units supplying components to a corresponding one of the two mounting heads, and the plural carrier conveyors being arranged in parallel between the two component supply units, said mounting condition determining method comprising: obtaining mounting information including information related to the component mounting operations scheduled to be performed by the mounter; judging, using the mounting information obtained in said obtaining: (a) which production mode between a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode is suitable for the scheduled component mounting operations, the synchronous mode causing the plural carrier conveyors to carry out component-mounted boards synchronously with each other, the asynchronous mode causing the plural carrier conveyors to carry in boards and carry out component-mounted boards independently of each other; or (b) which production mode between an alternating mode and an independent mode is suitable for the scheduled component mounting operations, the alternating mode causing the two component heads to alternately mount components onto each of the boards to be carried by the plural carrier conveyors, the independent mode causing each of the two mounting heads to mount components only onto a board to be carried by a carrier conveyor closest to the component supply unit which is a component supply source of the mounting head, among the plural carrier conveyors; and selecting the production mode indicated by a result of the judgment in said judging, as the production mode to be executed by the mounter.