A survey of surface mount device placement machine optimisation: Machine classification

The optimisation of the single surface mount device placement machine in printed circuit board assembly: a survey

This article surveys research on the single surface mount device (SMD) placement machine optimisation problem. We classify the optimisation problem into five sub-problems: feeder setup, component placement sequencing, nozzle optimisation, component retrieval plan and motion control; and analyse issues relevant to each of these. One of the aims of this article is to provide guidance to other res...

Optimisation for Surface Mount Placement Machines

Optimisation of feeder setup and component placement sequence are very important to the efficiency of surface mount placement machines. Much works have been conducted to solve this problem. However, the technological characteristics of the placement machine influences the nature of the planning problems to be solved and the formulation of the associated models. As a result, little consensus exi...

Optimisation of Surface Mount Device Placement Machine in Printed Circuit Board Assembly

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A Variable Neighbourhood Monte Carlo Search For Multi-Head Surface Mount Device Placement Machine

A Variable Neighbourhood Monte Carlo Search for Component Placement Sequencing of Multi-Head Placement Machine

This work considers the optimisation of component placement sequencing to improve the efficiency of theoretical multi-head surface mount device placement machines in printed circuit board assembly. We develop a Variable Neighbourhood Monte Carlo Search (VNMS), which employs a variable neighbourhood search technique with an Exponential Monte Carlo acceptance criterion. VNMS is a descent-ascent h...