DOI: 10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-4-139-146
Abstract
Problem Statement (Relevance): Ensuring the specified quality level of domestically produced automotive components is a necessity and a serious competitive advantage when supplying to an OEM enterprise. Suspension and steering ball joints are among the most critical components in terms of ensuring the safety and comfort of vehicle operation. The durability of ball joints in operation depends on many factors, the main one of which at the moment is ensuring tightness in the difficult road and climatic conditions of the Russian Federation. From this point of view, a relevant task is to set such requirements for the tightness of joints, the fulfillment of which would ensure the specified quality level of ball joints during the quality warrant period of vehicle. Objectives. The research is aimed at ensuring a specified level of quality of ball joints based on the modernization of the sealing system testing method for tightness. Methods applied. The authors used such methods as analysis, DFMEA method, Five whys, forward standardization method. Originality. A modernized method for testing the sealing system of ball joints for tightness is proposed. Result. Based on the toughening of requirements and testing modes for tightness, the design of the sealing system of the stabilizer link’s joints was modernized. Practical Relevance. The obtained results made it possible to ensure the specified level of quality during the quality warrant period of operation of the stabilizer links.
Keywords
advanced standardization, ball joint, tightness, test method, warranty period of operation
For citation
Stolyarov F.A., Gun I.G., Polyakova M.A. Practical Application of Advanced Standardization Methods to Reduce the Defect Level in Operation Using the Example of Ball Joint. Vestnik Magnitogorskogo Gosudarstvennogo Tekhnicheskogo Universiteta im. G.I. Nosova [Vestnik of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University]. 2025, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 139-146. https://doi.org/10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-4-139-146
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