Patent ID: 7434675

Claim:
A system for equipping component carriers with electrical components in a system, comprising: an assembly line comprising a plurality of equipping locations joined to one another for the component carriers; at least one transport path for the component carriers conducted over all of the equipping locations; at least one linear conveying path for the transport of the component carriers that proceeds substantially parallel to the at least one transport path and is conducted past the equipping locations; the assembly line comprising handover devices for transverse transport of the component carriers between the at least one transport path and the conveying path; at least one of the handover devices being arranged between two successive equipping locations as seen in a transport direction; in a first setting, each of the component carriers on the transport path being supplied over all equipping locations in sequence; in a further setting the assembly line being subdivided into at least two sub-sections at ends of which one of the handover devices is respectively arranged; and the component carriers being input into the transport path of one of the two sub-sections or conducted past the equipping locations on a corresponding section of the conveying path.