Feeder Loading Priority Control for Faster Mounting Starts
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Solution Overview
Problem
In mounting systems for low-volume production, shared feeder arrangements lead to increased time in starting the mounting process due to the need to prioritize and manage feeder positions across multiple production jobs, reducing productivity.
Innovation Solution
A moving work management device that creates loading order information based on feeder arrangement and usage order, prioritizing current production feeders over next production feeders, allowing earlier initiation of the mounting process by optimizing feeder loading sequences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a shared arrangement of feeders is used to reduce labor in exchanging arrangement positions, then the labor of exchanging feeders is reduced, but it takes time to start the mounting process
Solution Approach 1:
The management control section creates loading order information in advance that specifies the preferential loading of feeders for current production before feeders for next production. This preliminary organization of loading sequences allows the mounting process to start immediately when feeders are loaded, without waiting for feeder arrangement decisions during production setup.
2Adaptability or versatility
If feeders are loaded in shared positions for multiple production jobs, then feeder arrangement flexibility is improved, but productivity decreases due to delayed mounting process start
Solution Approach 1:
Loading order information is created beforehand that prioritizes feeders needed for current production over feeders for subsequent productions. This advance planning enables the system to maintain flexible shared feeder positions while ensuring that current production feeders are loaded first, allowing immediate start of mounting operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The management control section uses feedback from production schedules and feeder usage information to dynamically determine loading priorities. By continuously monitoring which feeders are needed for current versus next production, the system optimizes loading sequences to maintain both flexibility and productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
The mounting system includes a mounting device including a mounting section, a supply section, and a mounting control section, and a moving work management device. The moving work management device creates loading order information including the loading order of the feeders to be loaded to the loading section with preference given to the feeders to be used in the current production over the feeders to be used in the next production onward based on multiple pieces of feeder arrangement information and the order of use of the multiple feeders, the multiple pieces of feeder arrangement information handling each of multiple pieces of mounting condition information for producing multiple types of mounting targets including the arrangement positions of the feeders created corresponding to positions shared among the productions of multiple types of mounting targets.