• Gulame Mustafa
• Sarode Rushikesh
• Deepak S. Patil
• Sayyed Ansar
• Ubaid Shaikh

The study aims at designing a new fixture assembly which will be used for the inline inspection of bend in a part of a component manufactred. The component manufactured is the steering knuckle and the bend has to be detected in the tie rod of the steering knuckle. The already existing fixture assembly does the work of Inspection of bends in the tie rod of the steering knuckle, but it is associated with certain demerits due to which it allows the steering knuckles with bend to pass the inspection test, though their tie rods have bends in them. In most cases the bend is detected and the part is rejected, but in some cases the parts with bends are also shown correct which are then passed for further operations. Later these bends are detected when they reach the vendor and the assembly of steering knuckle cannot be done properly with other mating parts like the hub, drag link and suspension. The bends are detected and then rejected which causes productivity loss to the company. Two types of bends are to be detected in the tie rod arm ie the lateral bend and the longitudinal bend. The lateral bends are successfully detected in all cases in the existing fixture assembly, only the problem of efficiency of the existing fixture assembly is with the detection of longitudinal bend. A new fixture assembly has to be designed such that it detects both lateral and longitudinal bends with their values with 100% efficiency.

Steering knuckle, Fixture design, Tie rod bend inspection, Error elimination, Snap Gauge and Go No-Go gauge.

"INTEGRATED STEERING KNUCKLE INSPECTION FIXTURE DESIGN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.417-422, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAH06073.pdf

"INTEGRATED STEERING KNUCKLE INSPECTION FIXTURE DESIGN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp417-422, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAH06073.pdf