Connecting rod’s manufacturing DiVA portal（连杆的制造天后门户）.pdf

Connecting rod鈥檚 manufacturing improvements and process planning Tolerance chain analysis and training material SILVIA GARDE GONZALEZ Master Thesis 2015 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Department of Production Engineering SE 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden PROCESS PLANNING II PROCESS PLANNING III Abstract Process planning includes the series of activities to design the process to transform the blank into the finished manufactured part. There is no specific method to create an optimum process plan and the results highly depend on the experience of the process planner. Besides, the high competitiveness among the companies demands a very high quality keeping costs as low as possible. This thesis has been focused on the study of the connecting rod manufacturing process. The analysis of the Scania鈥 line together with a benchmark among different leading companies on the connecting rod manufacturing has been undertaken. As tolerance chain analysis is an essential activity in process planning for geometry assurance, a tolerance chains study based on Monte Carlo simulations for the connecting rod line has been performed to develop improved manufacturing solutions to lower costs and increase quality. The code created for this simulation calculates the deviation of the different measures due to the accumulation of in-process tolerances. Apart from this tolerance chain analysis, other additional improvements have been suggested based on theoretical studies. Finally, the development of a training material with an example to introduce new process planners to feasible process planning approaches has been performed. Three ma