Identification of The Flowchart for Manufacturing and Inspection of Industrial Spare Parts

Abstract

In the actual development of technologies and related devices it becomes important to develop the manufacturing processes considering the integration of the main factors concerning the technological steps, inspection steps and reaction plan in the case of non-conforming parts. To optimize the manufacturing steps, the flowcharts should give a theoretical overview of the production and inspection processes and the correlation between them. In the present paper the application of a tool used in the automotive industry is proposed for sampling in the case of a fastening lug. During the development phase, activities for manufacturing steps identification and the related inspection methods were determined. Also, the reaction plan was identified in the case when a non-conforming part resulted from processing. In the development phase of a product, one of the most important jobs of a process designer is to integrate, in a suitable manner, in the same flowchart, the main requirements regarding the products process, inspection and cost saving. The defined flowchart was implemented in the case of an industrial spare part used in fixing devices, by considering two different variants. A comparison between the results obtained was made. Both proposed alternatives were validated, so they can be used in practice.