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Improving the Pickups of Components on a Gantry-type Placement Machine

Sami Pyöttiälä, Timo Knuutila, Olli S. Nevalainen, Improving the Pickups of Components on a Gantry-type Placement Machine. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technology and Automation 2005 (ICTA'05), 227-231, 2005.

Abstract:

The advantages of using multi-head gantry machines in printed circuit board assembly are flexibility and efficiency combined with a relatively low acquisition price. However, the practical efficiency of this machine type depends on several difficult decisions that have to be made by a machine operator. In this paper two basic problems that have a significant effect on the use of a gantry machine are considered. The first problem deals with the pick-ups of the components using the nozzles in the placement arm and the second problem is about selecting suitable nozzles into the placement arm. The goal is to achieve a better understanding of the difficulty of these two problems and build up effective algorithms that can be used to solve problems in a restricted environment where the rest of the factors, such as the placement order of the components or the component to feeder slot assignment, are fixed.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpPyKnNe05a,
  title = {Improving the Pickups of Components on a Gantry-type Placement Machine},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technology and Automation 2005 (ICTA'05)},
  author = {Pyöttiälä, Sami and Knuutila, Timo and Nevalainen, Olli S.},
  pages = {227-231},
  year = {2005},
}

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