COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF CLASSICAL METHODS OF DIMENSIONAL CHAINS THEORY AND THEIR MODERN ANALOGUES

The requirements for the quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of engineering products and engineering production itself are constantly improving. As a result, there is an increasing demand for the quality of design and technological preparation of production, which includes classical dimensional analysis as its foundation. The Classical Method of dimensional analysis calculation represents a comprehensive set of computational and analytical actions carried out during the development and analysis of projects and technological processes, including: the construction of specialized dimensional diagrams for projects and technological processes, the identification and recording of interconnections between all dimensional parameters, the identification of dimensional chains, verification, and the establishment of rational sizing methods in drawings. Dimensional analysis involves a significant number of procedures and actions. The time required for dimensional analysis is substantial, ranging from 10 to 50 hours for a single technical drawing or technological process. At the same time, the use of Modern Methods for calculating dimensional chains will allow us to determine, after a thorough evaluation of manufacturing conditions at each production stage (operation), leading to a reduction in the manufacturing cost of parts. The increased workload of the evaluation process can be compensated by using databases and appropriate software that operates interactively with the user. This will also lead to a reduction in the labor intensity of dimensional analysis of projects and technological processes through automation.