scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1076397
One of the main applications of pick- and place-robots is in the electronics industry. The robots are used for the manufacturing of electronic component parts on printed circuits boards (PCB). A PCB enters the cell, is being served and leaves it on the opposite faced side. The parts to be placed on the PCB are fed to the robot e.g. via waffle trays, magazines, tapes, bowl feeders. These storages for the parts are placed in feasible regions of the cell. In this work, we only consider the most simple category of assembly machines. They work sequentially, i.e. the process of insertion is a repeated cycle of retrieval and placement of single components. Because of the high number of parts, the manufacturing of PCBs is usually done in assembly lines, where many work cells are installed in a series. To obtain an efficient production, one would like to maximize the output of the assembly line while keeping the costs under a certain level. In the literature three levels of optimization were proposed: In the grouping level we optimize the selection of machine groups, part families and the assignment of families to groups. In the allocation level we assign the component types to different machines. In the lowest level we optimize the locations of bins in the cell and the placement sequence. In this paper we focus on the last level.
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