Splicing Tape Management System for Carrier Tape Adhesion Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
The adhesive performance of splicing tapes used to join old and new carrier tapes changes over time, making it essential to manage their usable time limits effectively to ensure proper usage.
Innovation Solution
A splicing tape management system that stores identification codes linked with usable time limits, allowing for appropriate management and ensuring the quality of the splicing tape by tracking and halting its use when the limits are reached.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of stationary object
If splicing tape is stored for long periods, then more time is available for operation, but adhesive performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary registration of the usable time limit at the time of splicing tape manufacture or before use. By pre-storing the identification code and its associated usable time limit in the storage section, the system prepares the necessary data in advance, allowing the management section to automatically monitor and warn before adhesive performance deteriorates, thus resolving the contradiction between extended storage and maintained reliability.
2Productivity
If splicing tape is used beyond its usable time limit, then productivity increases, but splicing quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The management section continuously monitors the current time against the stored usable time limit and provides feedback through warning displays. When the current time approaches or exceeds the usable time limit, the system alerts the operator, enabling timely replacement of the splicing tape. This feedback mechanism ensures splicing quality is maintained while minimizing interruptions to productivity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If splicing tape usable time is extended, then operational flexibility increases, but adhesive reliability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically manages splicing tape usability by storing and monitoring the specific usable time limit for each tape roll rather than using fixed general rules. The management section continuously compares current time with the stored time limit, allowing flexible usage within the reliable period while automatically warning when reliability begins to deteriorate, thus adapting to each tape's specific characteristics.
Data Source
AI summary
A splicing tape management system includes, in executing properly the management of a time limit of a splicing tape, a first storage section configured to store an identification code of a splicing tape for splicing a first carrier tape and a second carrier tape together and a usable time limit of the splicing tape while associating them with each other, and a management section configured to manage the use of the splicing tape based on the identification code and the usable time limit that are stored in the first storage section. The usable time limit is a timing when the use of the splicing tape is to be halted, the timing being determined based on a production time and a usable period after production of the splicing tape or based on a starting time in use and a usable period after starting time of the splicing tape.