Production planning problems in printed circuit board assembly

Production planning problems in printed circuit board assembly

This survey describes some of the main optimization problems arising in the context of production planning for the assembly of printed circuit boards. The discussion is structured around a hierarchical decomposition of the planning process into distinct optimization subproblems, addressing issues such as the assignment of board types to machine groups, the allocation of component feeders to ind...

Assembly and Printed Circuit Board (pcb) Package

Bi-objective Scheduling in Printed Circuit Board Assembly

This paper presents an approach to solve the problem of scheduling printed circuit board assemblies on single production line to minimize total weighted tardiness and total feeder setups, which are sequence dependent. Preemptive integer goal programming model is constructed to represent the bi-objective problem. Although an optimal branch-and-bound method is available, its computational require...

Product/process Design in Mass Placement Printed Circuit Board Assembly *

We describe a set of models that are used to manage the product and process design in a mass placement printed circuit board (PCB) assembly cell. Our models can be divided into two categories. First, we characterize the cell design problem and develop models to design an efficient assembly cell. Second, we present models for optimizing the different operational aspects of the assembly cell. The...

Printed circuit board inspection

This paper provides a general overview of immediate and long-term aims of the printed circuit board inspection project of The Robotics Institute. Its purpose is to highlight some of the significant issues specific to printed circuit board inspection and to provide a discussion of our basic thesis that machine inspection should be coupled with machine diagnosis of the causes of observed printed ...