Mounting systems and methods

摘要

In a mounting system including a loading station (10) having a transport conveyor (16) for conveying printed circuit boards (50), a mounting machine (20) for fabricating circuit devices (52) by attaching electronic assemblies (60) on the printed circuit boards (50) supplied thereto from the loading station (10), and an unloading station (30) having a transport conveyor (36) for conveying circuit devices (52) supplied thereto from the mounting machine (20), the loading station (10) includes a discriminating device (18) for discriminating the kind or type of printed circuit boards and generating a discrimination signal for instructing the kind or type of the printed circuit board. A mounting process in the mounting machine (20) is selectively set by the discrimination signal from the discriminating device (18). Even when many kinds of circuit devices (52) are fabricated on many kinds of printed circuit boards (50), the mounting processes can be successively carried out by one mounting line.