ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES USED IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
The PURPOSE of the paper is to analyze machine-building industry product quality improvement through the use of digital technologies on example of the technological process of pipe bending. METHODS. The literary sources and research works are reviewed. RESULTS AND THEIR DISCUSSION. Having analyzed pipe bending technologies a method for improving the technological process of pipe bending was proposed using digital technologies including a complex of a CNC pipe bender and a 3D scanner. The application of this method allows to reduce the technological process duration by an average of 16 times, shorten the workpiece length, decrease the reject rate of the technological process of bending pipes. CONCLUSIONS. Development and implementation of new production technologies are important tasks for mechanical engineering. The use of digital technologies enables significant increase in the efficiency of production processes and considerable reduction of the costs of information processing required under the manufacturing of engineering enterprise products.