International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Increasing the efficiency of machine usage for transport services in agricultural holdings can be achieved by creating stocks of aggregates and units in company warehouses based on a predetermined gamma-percentage of available resources.
This study proposes a methodical approach to determine the 80% of gamma-percentage resource for forklift elements, considering both known and unknown distribution laws for their resources. It includes truncated and repeatedly truncated samples.
The results obtained from this study can be utilized for planning purposes and establishing stock levels to ensure the operational readiness of Bulgarian forklifts.

Increasing the efficiency of machine usage for transport services in agricultural holdings can be achieved by creating stocks of aggregates and units in company warehouses based on a predetermined gamma-percentage of available resources.
This study proposes a methodical approach to determine the 80% of gamma-percentage resource for forklift elements, considering both known and unknown distribution laws for their resources. It includes truncated and repeatedly truncated samples.
The results obtained from this study can be utilized for planning purposes and establishing stock levels to ensure the operational readiness of
Bulgarian forklifts.

The necessity of using the apparatus of mathematical statistics to obtain high reliability of the results of the evaluation of thereliability indicators of agricultural machinery in comparative tests is justified.
Two models of plant protection machines have been tested and the main numerical characteristics of the indicator production till failure of the failure-free feature have been obtained.
The application of the Student’s criterion for proving the statistical significance of the difference in the tested reliability indicator is justified.

The types of machine reliability tests and the applicability of the test plans are discussed. On this basis, a methodology for experimental testing of the reliability of the machines is proposed and the interrelation of the elements of the methodology is shown.

Regardless of the length of the period of use of the equipment, due to a change in technology, an increase in maintenance costs or the introduction of new requirements with a change in legislation, the machines become obsolete and are disposed of. The main methods for utilization of tractors and self-propelled agricultural machinery are considered. The equipment necessary for the disposal is also described. The methodology for determining the costs for utilization and the value of the equipment for utilization of the whole machine, element-by-element utilization and utilization after defecting has been supplemented.

The machinery in livestock farming works in a highly aggressive environment, increased ammonia content and high humidity. Anticorrosive protection of machines and equipment is widely used on the basis of lacquer materials. Their effectiveness is mainly determined by the selection of the varnish materials according to the type and degree of corrosion hazard.

Modern lacquer-based materials based on melamine, pentaftal, nitrocellulose, butyl methacrylate, chlorovinyl, epoxide and other resins are characterized by high protective properties and the possibility of renewal.

The machines are one of the most important pillars in the industrial economy of the European Union. The aim is to reduce the enormous social price paid for accidents at work, by integration of safe design and construction, as well as proper installation and maintenance.

A harmonized regulatory framework for the design and manufacture of machines is of major economic importance for European industry. At the same time, the safety of machinery makes an important contribution to reducing the social costs of damage to health and accidents at home and workplace.

Production of bulbs from flower crops is one of the most dynamic sectors in specific farming systems. Due to their intensive nature, a rapid change in growing conditions, as they tend to change more quickly than other traditional Bulgarian agricultural crops. To implement specialized farming systems the following important conditions must be available: – the availability of highly specialized staff, familiar with specific biological and physiological characteristics of flower crops, with growing technologies, harvesting, storagе and accelerated production of flowers; – the existence of universal and specialized machines and equipment; – аn environment оф propagation and storage, incl. laboratory facilities and outdoor production areas.