METHOD FOR DETERMINING SET-UP FAMILIES FOR A PICK-AND-PLACE LINE FOR POPULATING CIRCUIT BOARDS WITH ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

Provided is a method for determining set-up families for a pick-and-place line for populating circuit boards with electronic components one or more component types, the method including the following steps: detecting a predetermined or predeterminable number of set-up families; wherein a set-up family is defined as a quantity of circuit boards that can be populated on a pick-and-place line without changing the quantity of component types kept ready for population on the pick-and-place line; wherein an assignment of circuit boards to be distributed to the detected number of set-up families is optimized by integer linear programming in such a way that the sum of the numbers of component types per set-up family is minimized; and populating the circuit boards in the set-up family assigned to them.