Management apparatus, and mount substrate manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10139810-B2
Application number	US-201615075059-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2016
Priority date	Apr 15, 2015
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

A management apparatus is connected to a mount substrate manufacturing line including at least a print apparatus, a component mounting apparatus, and a reflow apparatus, through a network. The management apparatus instructs at least one of apparatuses that are at a more upstream side than the reflow apparatus in a mount substrate manufacturing line, to perform at least any one of an operation relating to maintenance, an operation relating to calibration, and an warm-up operation, based on first data relating to a period of time necessary to complete preparation for performing a process by the reflow apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A management apparatus that is connected to a mount substrate manufacturing line which includes at least a print apparatus, a component mounting apparatus, and a reflow apparatus, through a network, the management apparatus comprising:
a storage which stores first data relating to a period of time necessary to complete preparation for performing a process by the reflow apparatus and second data relating to a period of time necessary to manufacture a pre-reflow substrate in the mount substrate manufacturing line;
a calculating section which calculates a waiting time to start production of a mount substrate based on the first data and the second data; and
a general control section which determines whether or not any one of an operation relating to maintenance, an operation relating to calibration, and a warm-up operation is possible to perform within the waiting time,
wherein the management apparatus instructs at least one of apparatuses that are at a more upstream side than the reflow apparatus in the mount substrate manufacturing line to perform at least any one of the operation relating to maintenance, the operation relating to calibration, and the warm-up operation that is to be performed before starting the production of the mount substrate, based on the first data and the second data.

2. The management apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the operation relating to maintenance is maintenance of a nozzle of the component mounting apparatus.

3. The management apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the operation relating to calibration is at least one of calibration relating to thermal compensation in the component mounting apparatus, calibration relating to a suction position in the component mounting apparatus, and calibration relating to a head of the component mounting apparatus.

4. The management apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the warm-up operation is an idling operation of the component mounting apparatus.

5. The management apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the management apparatus instructs at least one of the apparatuses that are at the more upstream side than the reflow apparatus in the mount substrate manufacturing line and includes the at least one apparatus instructed to perform at least any one of the operation relating to maintenance, the operation relating to calibration, and the warm-up operation, to start production of the mount substrate, in such a manner that the pre-reflow substrate is manufactured in accordance with a timing at which the preparation for performing the process by the reflow apparatus is completed.

6. A mount substrate manufacturing method for use in a mount substrate manufacturing system that includes a mount substrate manufacturing line which includes at least a print apparatus, a component mounting apparatus, and a reflow apparatus, and a management apparatus connected to the mount substrate manufacturing line through a network, the method comprising:
storing first data relating to a period of time necessary to complete preparation for performing a process by the reflow apparatus and second data relating to a period of time necessary to manufacture a pre-reflow substrate in the mount substrate manufacturing line;
calculating a waiting time to start production of a mount substrate based on the first data and the second data; and
determining whether or not any one of an operation relating to maintenance, an operation relating to calibration, and a warm-up operation is possible to perform within the waiting time,
wherein the management apparatus instructs at least one of apparatuses that are at a more upstream side than the reflow apparatus in the mount substrate manufacturing line to perform at least any one of the operation relating to maintenance, the operation relating to calibration, and the warm-up operation that is to be performed before starting the production of the mount substrate, based on the first data and the second data.

7. The mount substrate manufacturing method of claim 6 ,
wherein the operation relating to maintenance is maintenance of a nozzle of the component mounting apparatus.

8. The mount substrate manufacturing method of claim 6 ,
wherein the operation relating to calibration is at least one of calibration relating to thermal compensation in the component mounting apparatus, calibration relating to a suction position in the component mounting apparatus, and calibration relating to a head of the component mounting apparatus.

9. The mount substrate manufacturing method of claim 6 ,
wherein the warm-up operation is an idling operation of the component mounting apparatus.

10. The mount substrate manufacturing method of claim 6 ,
wherein the management apparatus instructs at least one of the apparatuses that are at the more upstream side than the reflow apparatus in the mount substrate manufacturing line and includes the at least one apparatus instructed to perform at least any one of the operation relating to maintenance, the operation relating to calibration, and the warm-up operation, to start production of the mount substrate, in such a manner that the pre-reflow substrate is manufactured in accordance with a timing at which the preparation for performing the process by the reflow apparatus is completed.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakamura Yuji
• Nakatsuji Hachiro
• Okamoto Kenji

Classifications

• Y02P90/14

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02P90/20

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G05B19/41865 Primary

  characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow · CPC title

• G05B19/418 Primary

  Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] · CPC title

• Y02P90/18

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic