The development of a collision-free routine for automatic insertion and placement

• Main Author: Lim, Eddy Soo Mee.
• Other Authors: Ang, Mui Kiang
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Production management
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20571
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

One of the activities in the assembly of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) is the generation of insertion/placement programs for the insertion/placement machines. This laborious and time-consuming activity can be made efficient by developing a software that can automatically generate the insertion/placement codes. Among the tasks that this software needs to address is the generation of an efficient collision-free insertion/placement sequence. The software must be able to predict the possibility of collisions by the insertion/placement head with components already on the PCB. Such prediction is based on the geometry of the insertion/placement heads and components and is dependent on the types of component insertion/placement machines.