Patent ID: 6788989
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
An electric-circuit board assembling line, comprising:a plurality of electric-circuit-board-assembling-related apparatuses which include respective control devices independent of each other and which perform respective electric-circuit-board-assembling-related operations that are related to assembling of an electric-circuit board including a substrate board and at least one electric component mounted thereon, the respective control devices of the electric-circuit-board-assembling-related apparatuses including a master control device, and at least one slave control device subject to the master control device; at least one communication device which connects the master control device and the slave control device, to each other; and at least one of (a) the master control device being operable to control the electric-circuit-board-assembling-related apparatus including the slave control device, (b) the master control device supplying, to the slave control device, information about the electric-circuit board to be assembled, and (c) the slave control device supplying, to the master control device, information about a state of the electric-circuit-board-assembling-related apparatus including the slave control device, so that the master control device recognizes said state, wherein the slave control device as a first slave control device is capable of operating as a second master control device, and the master control device as a first master control device is capable of operating as a second slave control device subject to the second master control device.