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A chip mounter is the core equipment in the production line of the surface-mount technology, which is responsible for finishing the mount operation. It is the most complex and time-consuming stage in the production process. Therefore, it is of great significance to optimize the load balance and mounting efficiency of the chip mounter and improve the mounting efficiency of the production line. In this study, according to the specific type of chip mounter in the actual production line of a company, a maximum and minimum model is established to minimize the maximum cycle time of the chip mounter in the production line. The production efficiency of the production line can be improved by optimizing the workload scheduling of each chip mounter. On this basis, a hybrid adaptive optimization algorithm is proposed to solve the load scheduling problem of the mounter. The hybrid algorithm is a hybrid of an adaptive genetic algorithm and the improved ant colony algorithm. It combines the advantages of the two algorithms and improves their global search ability and convergence speed. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid optimization algorithm has a good optimization effect and convergence in the load scheduling problem of chip mounters.


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Load Optimization Scheduling of Chip Mounter Based on Hybrid Adaptive Optimization Algorithm

Show Author's information Xuesong Yan1Hao Zuo1Chengyu Hu1( )Wenyin Gong1Victor S. Sheng2
School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409−3104, USA

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A chip mounter is the core equipment in the production line of the surface-mount technology, which is responsible for finishing the mount operation. It is the most complex and time-consuming stage in the production process. Therefore, it is of great significance to optimize the load balance and mounting efficiency of the chip mounter and improve the mounting efficiency of the production line. In this study, according to the specific type of chip mounter in the actual production line of a company, a maximum and minimum model is established to minimize the maximum cycle time of the chip mounter in the production line. The production efficiency of the production line can be improved by optimizing the workload scheduling of each chip mounter. On this basis, a hybrid adaptive optimization algorithm is proposed to solve the load scheduling problem of the mounter. The hybrid algorithm is a hybrid of an adaptive genetic algorithm and the improved ant colony algorithm. It combines the advantages of the two algorithms and improves their global search ability and convergence speed. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid optimization algorithm has a good optimization effect and convergence in the load scheduling problem of chip mounters.

Keywords: ant colony algorithm, Surface Mount Technology (SMT), chip mounter, load optimization scheduling, adaptive genetic algorithm

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Received: 12 November 2022
Revised: 29 November 2022
Accepted: 01 December 2022
Published: 09 March 2023
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This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1911205, 62073300, and 62076225) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFB3301602).

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