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Solving the Feeder Assignment on a Revolver-Head Gantry Machine

Sami Pyöttiälä, Timo Knuutila, Mika Johnsson, Olli S. Nevalainen, Solving the Feeder Assignment on a Revolver-Head Gantry Machine. In: Joaquim Filipe, Juan Andrade Cetto, Jean-Louis Ferrier (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2009), 1 - Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization, 75-80, 2009.

Abstract:

Revolver-head gantry machines are nowadays very popular because of their flexibility, accuracy and high enough placement speed. In the optimization of this machine type the selection of nozzles into the placement head, the order of the component reels in feeder slots, and the pick-up and placement sequences have to be considered.

In this article, it is assumed that the selection of nozzles and the pick-up and placement sequences are fixed and the feeder assigment is to be solved. The problem statement is formed by analysing the operation properties of a real placement machine. Contrarily to previous literature dealing with this problem, in this work each component can be picked up only by a certain type of nozzle. Finally, four algorithms for solving the problem are proposed and tested. In the experimental tests with realistic data the algorithms performed equally.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpPyKnJoNe09a,
  title = {Solving the Feeder Assignment on a Revolver-Head Gantry Machine},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2009)},
  author = {Pyöttiälä, Sami and Knuutila, Timo and Johnsson, Mika and Nevalainen, Olli S.},
  volume = {1 - Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization},
  editor = {Filipe, Joaquim and Cetto, Juan Andrade and Ferrier, Jean-Louis},
  pages = {75-80},
  year = {2009},
  keywords = {Printed circuit boards, electronics assembly, multi-spindle placement machines, revolver-head, nozzle, gantry machines, optimization, production control},
}

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