Towards consistent high quality of engineering products

Abstract

Abstract The low level of competitiveness and the constantly growing requirements of consumers for modern domestic technology indicate an urgent need to improve the quality of technological machinery and equipment produced by engineering. Ensuring a competitive world-class quality of the produced machines and equipment requires innovative development and modernization of the production organizational and technological system of mechanical engineering. Only the association of modern engineering companies is able to unit and direct the efforts of all participants in the process of creating machines towards a stable, continuous improvement in the quality of equipment. Encompassing quality control at all stages of the life cycle of a machine, the company as soon as possible and without any special financial expenses ensures the highest world level of quality of engineering products. The goal of research is to comprehensively improve the quality of Russian-made machinery and equipment to the level of the best world analogues and higher based on the creation of an innovative production and technological system (complex), ensuring the as great as practicable level of quality of equipment at all stages of its life cycle. The results of feasibility studies show, that a non-competitive level of quality of domestic equipment has developed and is maintained, despite the efforts of manufacturers, due to the long-term maintenance of the existing manufacturing system and production relations, requiring urgent and accelerated modernization. The main disadvantage of the existing manufacturing system in mechanical engineering is the isolation and fragmentation of enterprises and institutions working on the creation of machinery and equipment, the incompleteness of the production and technological chain, the lack of engineering and technical support of processes at all stages of the life cycle and, first of all, at the stage of operation of equipment. Therefore, in this article, we consider and propose a complex of priority organizational and technological measures providing the accelerated innovative development of the manufacturing system and improve the quality of Russian equipment above the level of the best world analogues.