Patent ID: 7899561

Claim:
An operating time reducing method for a component mounter, the method comprising: an operation loss identifying step of identifying an operation loss to be resolved in the component mounter; a processing procedure selecting step of selecting, based on the identified operation loss, a processing procedure for reducing an operating time of the component mounter; and a processing procedure executing step of executing the selected processing procedure, wherein the component mounter is provided with a rotary head which, while rotating about an axis, picks up components and mounts the components onto a board, wherein the selected processing procedure is a component mounting order determination method for the component mounter, wherein a board mark provided on the board for board positioning or a point included in component mounting points where a first component is mounted is defined as a start point, wherein for an arbitrary two points among a plurality of component mounting points and the start point, a distance between the two points or a time duration necessary from completion of mounting of a component on one of the two points until completion of mounting of a component on the other of the two points is defined as a cost for the two as points, wherein a point set up hypothetically as a last movement point is defined as a dummy point, wherein the component mounting order determination method includes: a component mounting point information acquiring step of acquiring position information concerning the plurality of component mounting points, the costs for two points among the plurality of component mounting points, the start point, and the dummy point; a traveling path calculating step of calculating a traveling path that passes individual points so as to minimize a sum of the costs for two points among the start point, the dummy point and the plurality of component mounting points on the board; and a mounting order determining step of determining the component mounting order based of the traveling path, and wherein the dummy point is a hypothetical point where a cost relative to each component mounting point is greater than a cost for every two points among the plurality of component mounting points and the start point, and where a cost relative to the start point is smaller than a cost for every two points among the plurality of component mounting points and the start point.