System and method for management of surface mount technology stencils

摘要

A system for management of SMT stencils includes: a plurality of controllers ( 5 ), each of which is connected to a sensor ( 7 ) for generating a signal when a piece of PCB is passing through an SMT machine ( 4 ) on which an SMT stencil is mounted and for adding one to each of current cumulative operation times and current continuous operation times of the stencil; and a server ( 1 ) including: a data obtaining module ( 12 ) for obtaining signals from the controllers; a parameter setting module ( 13 ) for presetting parameters of each stencil; an analyzing module ( 14 ) for obtaining the current cumulative operation times and current continuous operation times of the stencil; and a determining module ( 15 ) for determining a usage condition of the stencil by comparing the current cumulative operation times and current continuous operation times with respective preset parameters, and generating different messages according to different usage conditions of the stencil. A related method is also disclosed.