An Optimized Methodology for Process Quality Analysis and Monitoring Activities in Case of Sheet Metal Bearing Cages Stamping

Abstract:

The quality of bearing cages is influenced by a variety of technological factors which depend on the material they are manufactured of, on the hydraulic press and on the punching-stamping die. The paper presents an optimized methodology introduced and developed for process quality analysis and monitoring activities involved in the stamping technology in order to manufacture roller bearing steel cages. The stamping technology presented in this case study is part of a larger industrial process of manufacturing steel window-type cages for spherical roller bearings with two rows of symmetrical rollers. This approach aims to improve a similar process quality analysis and monitoring activities which were previously developed on the basis of cause & effect analyses made upon the influence of qualitative and quantitative parameters involved in a quality and accurate stamping process.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 657)
• Pages: 183-187
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.657.183
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Marius Ionuţ Rȋpanu*, Gheorghe Nagîț, Vasile Merticaru, Marius Andrei Mihalache, Mihai Boca, Valerica Huşanu
• Keywords: Bearing Cage, Cause, Effect Analysis, Process Quality, Sheet Metal, Stamping

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DOI: 10.1007/s001700200041