Patent ID: 7043824

Claim:
An electric-component mounting system operable to mount electric components on a circuit substrate and including a common main body, and a plurality of working devices which are disposed on said common main body and each of which has an actuator that is variable in acceleration and deceleration values and/or an operating speed thereof, comprising: determinant-device determining means, operable with respect to presently required operations of a plurality of selected working devices selected from said plurality of working devices, for determining, as a cycle-time-determinant working device, each of at least one of said selected working devices which determines a cycle time of the electric-component mounting system such that said cycle time is determined on the basis of a required operating time of each cycle-time-determinant working device as calculated when the presently required operation of said cycle-time-determinant working device is performed at predetermined maximum acceleration and deceleration values or a predetermined maximum operating speed thereof; and slowdown means for determining actual acceleration and deceleration values or an actual operating speed of each of at least one of non-cycle-time-determinant working devices which are said plurality of selected working devices except said each cycle-time-determinant working device, said slowdown means determining said actual acceleration and deceleration values or said actual operating speed of said each non-cycle-time-determinant working device, so as to be lower than predetermined maximum acceleration and deceleration values or a predetermined maximum operating speed thereof, such that the presently required operation of said each non-cycle-time-determinant working device can be completed within a corresponding period of said cycle time determined by said each cycle-time-determinant working device.