Information Processing Device for Flexible Component Supply Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mounting systems face challenges in efficiently managing component supply devices, particularly in handling unexpected component shortages, where recalculation and exchange of supply devices are necessary, leading to inefficiencies and insufficient countermeasures.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device and method that sets an installation set within a magazine with both an installation slot and a vacant slot for component supply devices, allowing for flexible countermeasures during component shortages by optimizing the supply plan and ensuring efficient component supply.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If component supply devices are fully installed in all slots of the magazine, then the serving efficiency of component supply devices is improved, but the flexibility to handle unexpected component shortages deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and designates specific slots as vacant slots before production begins. This preliminary action ensures that when component shortages occur, there are pre-designated positions ready to receive replacement component supply devices, eliminating the need for recalculation and enabling immediate response to shortages.
Solution Approach 2:
The magazine slots are segmented into two distinct categories: installation slots for active component supply devices and vacant slots reserved for emergency replacement. This segmentation allows the system to maintain both high serving efficiency (through full utilization of installation slots) and flexibility (through dedicated vacant slots) simultaneously.
2Reliability
If recalculation is performed for serving plan when component supply device is added to fully installed magazine, then the component shortage can be addressed, but the production time is lost and efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control section performs recalculation of the serving plan in advance and designates vacant slots before production starts. This preliminary calculation eliminates the need for time-consuming recalculation during production when component shortages occur, as the system can immediately utilize the pre-designated vacant slots.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically manages the vacant slot designation and serving plan recalculation without requiring manual intervention during production. The control section autonomously handles these calculations in advance and maintains the serving plan, allowing rapid response to component shortages without disrupting production flow.
3Adaptability or versatility
If vacant slots are designated in the magazine, then the flexibility for component supply management is improved, but the number of available installation slots decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of designating vacant slots for every possible component type, the system designates a partial number of vacant slots sufficient to handle unexpected shortages. This partial action provides the necessary flexibility while minimizing the reduction in available installation slots, optimizing the balance between adaptability and capacity.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing device of the present disclosure is an information processing device used in a mounting system including a mounting device configured to perform mounting processing on a processing target object, the information processing device including: a control section configured to set, for a magazine including multiple slots in which component supply devices configured to supply components are installed, an installation set including an installation slot in which the component supply device is installed and a vacant slot in which the component supply device is not installed, and output the set installation set.