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Quality Management Tools in the Design of Materials for Special Purposes

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 8912

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Prof. Dr. Dorota Klimecka-Tatar

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Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, ul. Dabrowskiego 69, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland
Interests: quality engineering; quality management; materials engineering; production engineering; surface engineering
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Dear Colleagues,

The design of materials for special purposes in laboratory conditions, from the point of view of cognition and the development of materials engineering, is extremely important. Unfortunately, laboratory tests are very selective and often do not reflect the actual performance parameters, and they often do not provide sufficient evidence for the repeatability of results in industrial conditions. However, it should be noted that all engineering materials, in order to be used in operational conditions, require numerous tests in the field of product quality management. All materials for special purposes and their improvement should be planned and confirmed with the use of quality management tools (in technical terms).

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers that present research results related to the design and improvement of materials for special purposes (materials used in medical or dental engineering and materials with specific requirements) are expected.

Within the scope of this Special Issue, emphasis will be given on the use of quality management tools, confirming the repeatability of results in industrial conditions.

A multidisciplinary approach (material design and product quality management perspective) is expected to make additional contributions to the field.

Dr. Dorota Klimecka-Tatar
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • material design
  • quality engineering
  • functional properties
  • industrial quality of materials
  • materials for special purposes
  • special processes
  • materials quality
  • quality tools
  • product quality

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Method of Determining Sequence Actions of Products Improvement
by Andrzej Pacana and Dominika Siwiec
Materials 2022, 15(18), 6321; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15186321 - 12 Sep 2022
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 1478
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Material production processes are special processes. As part of continuous improvement, it is extremely important to find the causes of the incompatibilities that occur in them. To increase the effectiveness of these actions, different methods are used. The purpose of this study was [...] Read more.
Material production processes are special processes. As part of continuous improvement, it is extremely important to find the causes of the incompatibilities that occur in them. To increase the effectiveness of these actions, different methods are used. The purpose of this study was to present an original method that allows the classification to improve the combinations of actions of product with material incompatibility. The originality of this method allows for the sequential and coherent operation of adequate analysis techniques of causes resulting in incompatibilities in the product material and, consequently, identifying the reasons that influence their quality. The presented method was developed using a new combination of brainstorming (BM), the Ishikawa diagram with 5M rule, the DEMATEL method, and the algorithm used in the MATLAB software. As a result of the proposed applied method, it is possible to create a sequence of actions that include interactions between important causes of product incompatibility, which was supported by the test of this method. This method was shown to support the creation of a rank of importance of improvement actions. This ranking allows for improvement of any product according to the possibilities of enterprises and simultaneously allows for reducing or eliminating products’ incompatibilities. Full article
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Universal Model to Support the Quality Improvement of Industrial Products
by Andrzej Pacana and Dominika Siwiec
Materials 2021, 14(24), 7872; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14247872 - 19 Dec 2021
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Improving the quality of industrial products quality still is a challenge. Despite using quality control, there is a constant need to support this process to achieve an effective, precise, and complex analysis of product quality. The purpose was to develop a universal model [...] Read more.
Improving the quality of industrial products quality still is a challenge. Despite using quality control, there is a constant need to support this process to achieve an effective, precise, and complex analysis of product quality. The purpose was to develop a universal model that supports improving the quality of products via the consistent and repetitive determination of the causes of product incompatibilities and actions leading to their elimination; the model can be integrated with any quality control of the product. The model verification was carried out for the incompatibility of the mechanical seal in alloy 410, in which the porosity cluster was identified by the fluorescence method (FPI). The purpose of the analysis was created by the SMART(-ER) method. Then, a team of experts was selected from which the brainstorming (BM) was realized. After the BM method, the source of incompatibility and initial causes were identified. Then, the Ishikawa diagram (according to rule 5M + E) was developed to group the initial causes. Next, during the BM method, the main causes were selected. In the last stage, the 5Why method was used to determine improvement actions, i.e., adjust clotting parameters, introduce the obligation to undergo periodic training, and set aside a separate place for storing the electrodes. Originality is the combination of selected quality management tools in a coherent model, the main aim of which is to identify the main causes of incompatibility and improvement actions. Additionally, this model is universal and has applications with analyzing any product and the causes of its incompatibility, and it can be integrated with any product quality control. Therefore, the model can be useful for improving the quality of products in any enterprise. Full article
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Model of Diagnosing and Searching for Incompatibilities in Aluminium Castings
by Andrzej Pacana and Karolina Czerwińska
Materials 2021, 14(21), 6497; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14216497 - 29 Oct 2021
Cited by 8 | Viewed by 1784
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An essential element of any industry is castings, which is determined by the technical conditions for their reception. However, conducting production in the foundry technology is burdened with many difficulties associated with, for example, the inability to control all of the parameters that [...] Read more.
An essential element of any industry is castings, which is determined by the technical conditions for their reception. However, conducting production in the foundry technology is burdened with many difficulties associated with, for example, the inability to control all of the parameters that may affect the casting quality. Therefore, it is essential to undertake improvement actions in this area. Efforts are being made to use non-destructive testing (NDT) as a part of quality control, but these methods are rarely combined in a single diagnostic run. As a part of quality improvement, it is also essential to identify the root cause of the problem. For this reason, it is justified to develop a model of diagnosing and searching for non-conformities, which would combine NDT tests and quality management tools. The model included the visual, ultrasound, and eddy current examination in the diagnostic part, and the Pareto–Lorenz diagram correlated with ABC method, histogram, and 5WHY method (asking five questions why). The study’s originality is manifested in the combination of several NDT methods with quality management methods in one model. Using integrally configured methods in the proposed model, it was possible to: reduce diagnostic uncertainty, characterize the critical group of non-conformities, and identify the root causes of the quality problem. The model is a new and universal method that can be implied in any foundry company in order to ensure the stability of the production processes. The application of the model contributes to an increase in the detection speed and enables the reduction of non-conformities in aluminium castings, thus increasing the quality level of the offered products. Full article
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The Effect of Rare Earth Metals Alloying on the Internal Quality of Industrially Produced Heavy Steel Forgings
by Petr Jonšta, Zdeněk Jonšta, Silvie Brožová, Manuela Ingaldi, Jacek Pietraszek and Dorota Klimecka-Tatar
Materials 2021, 14(18), 5160; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185160 - 08 Sep 2021
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The paper presented the findings obtained by industrial research and experimental development on the use of rare earth metals (REMs) in the production of heavy steel ingots and their impact on the internal quality of the 42CrMo4 grade steel forging. REMs alloying was [...] Read more.
The paper presented the findings obtained by industrial research and experimental development on the use of rare earth metals (REMs) in the production of heavy steel ingots and their impact on the internal quality of the 42CrMo4 grade steel forging. REMs alloying was carried out after vacuuming the steel. A relatively large melting loss of cerium (about 50%) and its further decrease in casting due to reoxidation were observed. Refinement of structure and better mechanical properties of forged bar containing about 0.02 wt.% of Ce compared to that of the standard production were not achieved. The wind power shaft with content of about 0.06 wt.% of Ce showed high amount of REM inclusions, which were locally chained, and in some cases, initiated cracks. Four stoichiometrically different types of REM inclusions were detected in forgings, namely (La-Ce)2O2S + (La-Ce)O2 + SiO2 (minority); oxygen, phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony bound to lanthanum and cerium probably bonded with iron oxides La + Ce, MgO, Al2O3 a SiO2; (La-Ce)2O2S, FeO, SiO2, and CaO or CaS. Full article
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