The article briefly discusses issues related to the production of protective coatings for kinematic machine joints with favorable tribological properties, ensuring the proper operation of technical equipment. The principles of operation as well as the possibilities of using adaptive coatings and coatings obtained with the participation of nanostructures are discussed. The concept of constituting this type of coating during the operation process is presented, and research on the possibilities of its implementation is shown, citing exemplary results of our own research.The operational properties of machines and technical devices largely depend on the operational properties of the surface layers forming their components. These properties are revealed in the operation system, among other things, in the form of tribological properties. In the case of kinematic machine joints, they are even more important than strength, anti-corrosion, or decorative properties, the design and shaping of which have long ceased to be a problem for designers and technologists, unlike the proper selection of surface layers optimal for the intended, specific operating conditions. It must be carried out with full awareness that the primary goal of using surface layers is to ensure the proper operation of technical devices and their components over an assumed, usually as long as possible, period of time, i.e., primarily preventing the intensification of tribological wear processes, which are the main cause of reducing the durability of mobile technical devices. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine