ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING

TECHNOLOGIES.

IMPROVEMENT TOOLS.

MISS. LOURDES TORRALBA CADENA.

ANGEL SAMUEL HERNÁNDEZ RESÉNDIZ

DIEGO ISMAEL ESPARZA DOMINGUEZ
JAVIER ALEJANDRO LUIS MARTINEZ
JOSE FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ TRUJILLO
JOSE JAVIER GONZALEZ GARCIA

TM-402.

RAMOS ARIZPE, SALTILLO COAHUILA

FEBRUARY 29th, 2019.
 INTRODUCTION.

In the current industrial life different types of situations are presented, for which the
existence of the seven new tools Q.C. It provides considerable help, from the resolution of
conflicts, the analysis and study of information to implement or innovate strategies,
techniques, tools or activities in processes that have influence and direct relationship with
the objective and final product of the company in question. In addition to the functions of
the seven tools already mentioned, there are also: identifies problems, gives importance to
planning Stresses the importance of the process, prioritizes tasks, encourages everyone to
think systematically, so on. In this activity we are going to

COMPANY.

Since its foundation in 1934, Stabilus has developed into the leading company in the
sector, with innovative products and uncompromising quality.
Our new Industry Line immediately expands our product and service offer. Customers who
need individual solutions, fast and agile development processes, and who seek small
series or single units will find the perfect gas springs in the Industry Line offer. And of
course, all at the usual high quality. All products are developed, produced and supplied in
accordance with the highest standards of quality.
STABILUS - the industrial engineer.
Our engineers develop new products and
the production technologies necessary for
them. This is how quality is achieved.
A global standard.
The unitary construction of our machines
and static controls of parameters and
processes ensure a uniform standard. It does not matter if a product is manufactured in the
US, Mexico, China or Germany. We control our production in series in our own test
benches. In this way, we guarantee that all our products have the same high-quality
standard.
Our quality guarantees.
The Stabilus Competence Center always ensures quality at all our venues. Day and night,
our specialists solve possible production problems through remote diagnosis or remote
data transmission quickly and efficiently.
They Assume Responsibility – Worldwide.
We started early and consistently to meet the requirements of effective environmental
stewardship, because at Stabilus, environment and ecology are an integral part of product
quality. One of the company principles is to develop environmentally compliant products
and to manufacture, market, and ultimately dispose of them in an environmentally friendly
way.
The Ecological Quality of our Products.
When developing and designing our gas springs
and dampers, we are mindful of saving
resources. Despite increasing production, we
have been able to reduce our energy
consumption as well as CO2 emissions over the
past years.

PROCESS.

These connecting rods are generally manufactured by a hot forging process or in a hot
medium comprising several stages consisting in particular of the manufacture of a piece
pre-roughened by rolling a billet previously heated to an appropriate temperature, in
stamping or die forming of the pre-roughened part and in a machining operation of the
calibrated holes of the head and foot to obtain a crude rod.
However, this process has drawbacks that mainly reside in the presence of burrs that
require a supplementary machining operation that consists in carrying out the grinding of
the side surfaces of the raw rod to eliminate these burrs that can produce in this operation
a deformation of the piece. In addition, for some connecting rod geometries, the low point
in fatigue stress is located at the height of the burrs that are in the joint plane located at the
level of the central part of the joint.
connecting rod. Now, it has been found that the size and location of these burrs are difficult
to control and are inherent in the open matrix printing used in the process.

But, the current trend of car manufacturers is to

lighten the vehicles and reduce costs which leads
them to require ever more accurate crude cranks.

In fact, the connecting rods must have an

increasingly low general geometric dispersion, as
regards the deformations and distributions of very
fine alternative and rotary masses. In addition,
these connecting rods must be obtained from a low-cost crude connecting rod that requires
as few machining operations as possible. The object of the invention is to avoid these
drawbacks by proposing a forging rod forming method that allows a material economy and
reduces machining operations, obtaining increasingly precise tolerances and a good
precision in weight as well as a repetitive distribution of the material for a production in
large series.

The subject of the invention is therefore a method of manufacturing a forged connecting

rod according to claim 1. According to another feature of the invention, the chipped piece is
heated to a temperature between 0 and 1250 ° C.
The material from which the connecting rod object of this study is manufactured is carbon
steel alloyed with nickel and chromium; According to the AISI designation system four
digits are used for carbon steels and alloy steels, the first two digits indicate the specific
group of alloys that identifies the main alloying elements apart from the carbon in the steel
and the last two digits indicate the quantity of alloys. carbon in the steel.

In the hardness tests resulted in 45 ROCKWELL C (poor condition) and compared with a
rod in good condition of the same type, model and material, performing the same
procedure, cutting, encapsulating and taking hardness resulting in a 35 ROCKWELL C.

DIAGRAMS.
 APPLICATION OF NEW SEVEN Q.C. TOOLS.

GRAPHS.

RESULTS.

After the study of experimental design was carried out successfully, as well as after having
reviewed and analyzed the results obtained in the study, it can be concluded that the
hardness of the material is the main focus point in which we must proceed to perform a
work of solution since it is the main effect that the connecting rods tend to break from the
midpoint when they occur defective, which at other levels would result in loss and for each
connecting rod that is detected as defective is separated all the batch consisting of 516
pieces, and these should be revised, but for ergonomic reasons are classified as losses
and placed in the foundry area to restart the process, this does not suit the company as
they have a very damaging effect in terms of its name as a manufacturing industry.

As we can see in the graphs, the hardness is the aspect where we must focus on because
according with the full factorial method it is the most responsible of that the rods break
sometimes; we made the main effects of each factors and we noticed that the hardness is
which has more influence in the process to manufacture rods. The thickness and the
temperature also are important in the fracture of the rod but if we watch the interaction
graph, we can know that the temperature and thickness are related as hardness with
temperature. Since hardness depends of the temperature and the thickness is a posterior
stage of the previous factors and the temperature is a factor that always is present in the
procedure of this.
In the cube graph we observe the same results than in the table of variance analysis, we
calculate the means between the, main effects to get the interactions with the full factorial
of experimental design method supported of a software (Minitab). According with the first
graph exist different surfaces depending of the interactions between factors. And finally,
from the main effect and interaction graphs we can see that the hardness is the factor in
which we have to work to prevent and avoid defects in the rods and so this information we
should give to the quality department or to manager to make a solution sudden.

CONCLUSION.

Finally we can as a team conclude that the experimental design of this type of
circumstances are presented day by day in companies, factories and any company, since it
is one of the most efficient and effective tools to get to know in which phase or stage of the
process of manufacture of any product is taking place some conflict, that is in a detrimental
way to the finished product, so here we can observe how in the manufacture of connecting
rods there are so many factors that any of them could be the one that affects the product
more and thanks to this method based on a numerical and geometric system we can know
with certainty which is the factor that has greater influence on the product for any case,
depending on the needs we have.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

https://www.stabilus.com/es/
https://docplayer.es/4582771-Stabilus-una-empresa-de-tradicion-innovadora.html
https://mx.kompass.com/c/stabilus-s-a-de-c-v/mx022375/