Solution of the problem of machines reliability requires new approaches which at the present stage of machine-building industry development is realized by implementing PLM - conceps (Product Lifecycle Management). The PLM - concepts are the system of management of the machine parts life with design of the functionally-oriented technologies of production by means of parallel engineering. Complex conditions of the products exploitation and complex technological processes of treatment require their profound theoretical and experimental investigation. An important task in the mechanical treatment and operation of products from the standpoint of their reliability is to predict their behavior at a certain point of time. The LM-hardness method developed under the guidance of academician A.A. Lebedev to control the samples structure quality and materials damageability in the investigated part of the samples is proposed. According to the LM-hardness method derivatives of the physical parameters absolute values, for example, dissipation of the obtained control results carried out by the same devices in identical conditions serve as the evaluation criterion. Homogeneity is a parameter that integrally describes the material state when processing the results of hardness control. The homogeneity is described by the Weibull coefficient m and the known Gumbel formula. In our researches we propose to evaluate the analysis of the material structure state both by means of the Weibull coefficient m, and its technological damageability W, which is inversely proportional to the Weibull coefficient. The experimental researches were carried out on aluminium alloy castings in sand moulds.Distribution of the technological damages W by the height of castings is established on the basis of performed researches at the stage of process engineering. The influence of the parameters of the “Sandvik” company tool design in treatment, using the “HAAS” treatment equipment on the change of the Weibull coefficient m is analyzed.

High-precision tapered threads are widely used in hard-loaded mechanical joints, especially in the aggressive environment of the drilling of oil and gas wells. Therefore, they must be made of workable materials often difficult to machine. This requires the use of high-performance cutting tools, which means the application of non-zero geometric parameters: rake and edge inclination angles. This study is based on analytical geometry methodology and describes the theoretical function of the thread profile as convoluted surfaces dependent on the tool’s geometric angles. The experiments were conducted using a visual algorithm grounded on the obtained function and prove the practical use of the scientific result. They predict the required accuracy of thread made using a lathe tool with a rake angle of up to 12°.

The main goal of the presented research is to assess the technological damageability of the material, which can be used as a criterion for analyzing the technological route of product machining in the "blank-workpiece-final part" technological chain. This technological chain is examined in detail in the most important stages of the life cycles of mechanical engineering products in order to take into account the principles of technological inheritability of their characteristics and quality parameters. The technological inheritability of the properties of the surface layers of machines and mechanisms parts from steel during their machining evaluates and predicts the transformation of the structurally heterogeneous material obtained after the production of blanks into the structurally homogeneous material of the final parts. The procedure for evaluating the homogeneity of the processed material for each technological step by the LM hardness method is presented. The developed methodology was implemented and proven during the manufacturing process of the conveyor belt drive drum shaft.

In object-oriented technologies of mechanical engineering production the step-by-step execution of interconnected design stages of technological process of product manufacture is used. A systematic approach to research and qualitative modelling of real physical processes, taking into account the operational characteristics of products and machines at all levels of research is ignored. As a rule, the object-oriented technological processes do not track the change of the products properties during their manufacture from the position of technological inheritability for all stages and substages of the Life Cycle Support of Product. Therefore, the development of scientific and applied principles of technological inheritability of quality parameters to provide the operational characteristics of products in the design of function-oriented technologies is a priority item of modern mechanical engineering. The structure of functional-oriented technology is closely related to the stages and substages of Life Cycle Support of Product. From the standpoint of continuous damage mechanics, Life Cycle Support of Product is considered to be a single process of exhaustion of the material plasticity margin under the influence of certain load modes in accordance with the technological inheritance of the product properties. The basic chart of the formation and transformation of the products properties from the point of view of mechanics of technological inheritability is developed. This chart, in contrast to previous research in this area, takes into account the significant impact of the stage of blanks manufacture in the technological process structure on the formation of technological parameters and operational characteristics of products.