PRODUCT CODING PROGRAM

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• Publication Date: February 14, 1958
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PRODUCT CODIAfG PROGRAM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF CENTRAL REFERENCE
INDUSTRIAL REGISTER
PREPARED FOR: Paul A. Borel
DATE: l~+ February 1g58
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T H E
PRODUCT CODIZ:G YROGRpl,;
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THE INDUSTRIAZ RF.GIST~
OFFICE OF CE?1't'RAI, REFERENCE
History of Progxan.
.Typical Problems
Request Trai'fic.Sempling
Machine Support
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CObZdODITY CIu'~SSIFICl:TIO:,
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Initially the purpose of establi.shino a Products firat:c]~ in tL?e
Industrial Register was to create and m_ csintain a rrodact oi? cor.;;:?oriity
index on forei gi~ industrial plants and by means of ti:ie indcs to provide
a detailed and specific coruaodity approach to industrial installations.
The need for an index of this type becaire apparent when close studies
of the industries of the world were undertaken which disclose3 the weak-
nesses and inadequancies of the code systezi used at that time. Eecau~e
of the complexity of production in the vast industrial combines of the
ion, as well as of the rest. of the world, the necessity for a
~rehensive coding .system arose. .Anew code, utilizing parts of
and the Standard Commodity Classification, was
adopted and expanded to,inelude"over 30,000 specific end and coctponent
items in 76 different mayor categories.
In.Ju],y 1951 the: actual .product analysis began with a staff of four;
$38 documents were. analyzed during. that-first month. During the six and
average of $,000 documents s month are product analyzed.
...Since there was already a sizable amount of materiel in the files
,
the first objective was to process the data on hand at the time each plant`
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_strategic importance. Other countries were-then analyzed in order of
in accordeace with arrangements-made between the Industrial Register and .
the principal analytical offices using the Register.
the USSR on a daily basis and also to continue the analysis of data relative
to the established priority: industries. By this method plants which-had.
already been i+orked under-the priority-plan were brought up to date by the
ttorking of their backl0g files along with the-daily ii~nut of ~A,?,~~ - T?
znis xe~y przorlry industries were'both completed and maintained on an up-
to-date basis.
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dustrial output-xas undertaken on :a priority category basis. and since that
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Albaaia, North Korea, Indo=China, ~ and Bu - -~--~ ......n..., , "~i6,
~p ,..,,,..+,.ree ...w ~.w~__ ___,_~_~ __ _ - ,lgaria have been added to the. list
.a iu~vnic1v ia. wti~
..undertaken on a-limited priority basis.-TMs phase of the product operation
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 To date is t?-.e twelve areas of the USSR, 600,000 ICF cards have been
product. ~_naly~ed ar_d fro: these caT'ds over 1,000,000 product cards have _
been placed in -the product file. At the present time 75~, of the total
USSR ICF file has been product coded-and this figure represents 100 of
the priority industries. It is now being maintained on s daily imput
basis, as are all of the product coded countries, and thus insuring an`
up-to-date inde;t to these selected 'industrial installations.
The product analysis of he Soviet Zone of Germany has, at,the
.,present, been completed on the priority categories with 75~, of the total
file analv~r~A _
=?~b~.~,.~~ ii_wa- 13115. 15 a Lremenaous stride when it is realized that.af
try +.,+~i-,,,,,.,~,e,. ,.~ ,...~a.. :_. ~~_ ..,.., ,... - - -
.Since the advent of product analysis a vast amount of-valuable residual
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which appear i.n the document. Because of this, many plants which produce
information has been accumulated in the coding of intelligence documents;
-The Products Branch, through the media of commodity classification,
has made it possible for the:Industrial Register to answer with speed and
accuracy. the many complex product requests received each month. Since.the-
IBbi product 'file is arranged-`in product code number 'order, it is possible
to give, the n,;,~ie and location of every plant within an area or country pro=
ducing_a specific.product. ._ ;
inclusive dates of information, end use ?primary:function, and/or negative
It is also possible to answer requests on specific products within
the Register without any indication'of producing.plant being .given on the .
pinpoint many brochures,; trade fairihandbooks',.arid pYiotopraphs received in
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Over 2,000;-IBM listin~s..have been run to'date on specific products or `'+
related product ~?oups requested by ;the vrrious offices using the Register.';
 '~5t-~;^ ,.-.~.: _~.y..:. ,,. .,~'~OV~ed C~1'o~...fieici Of relate:i Dro~ll;CtS:-and
~?qu-'.n _r:', ^?: ~ .,.ve leer ,irtually i;upossible and at least
econo .i~^al~' i.. -r; E,C_`ti cable to recover ;~~-;t;a11;?. Fo;? exa.^iple, in answering-
a request .'ci? :ar ~ ' f'?d coal tear products, a total of x+00 ;asn-hours-were
saved. tae *o t'~ie v. eat co~splesity of these products and the ride. variety;
csf plants in tishich tli~y are produced, it xould have taken appro~imstely .
3?7 r.:a;;-hours, br ; r~er two week, to do a manual docuument search through;
the Register files. ~;y~ usn; macl,:ine methods cold the product file the
requc:si: as 4ctual3:y niiswere~l in 3 r..an-hours:
A reque?~t on the- research `a~d_,development of the specific drub
"1'romedo2" wa:. anawei~ed in one hour by using the product File. 2nformatiori
furnished by ,};is file sHaved that this dru;;,was being developed'id five?.
separate p}iarr~ceutical plants" in >the USSR, A manual search of the ICF
::document'file~, W}*.ich xould have involved seFU?ching thousands'of plant
`"'dossiers.-ann.. consumed 960'inan=hours, sias< thus avoided, saying, some 95q man ?
hours . ~ ` ~.
;'"'Phe'strEngth of the commodity classification system lies inlthe
ability. of the`researcher-tO`?reoe~.ve.-rfast~ accurate, up-to-date'iafor-
:ina~on in the form of printed indices on :all information found in. the
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..files, of :tt:e Industrial` ftegistpr ' ~, " ` .-
The fle;ciblity of ??t~he product index is it's greatest value in fn ~'
,tell-igence,service..,The ability of the'Register to answer requests by ,'-
plant, date bf information, :specific commodity, type or model number, trade
}m~rk~ serial nur;ber, ? or any;. combiziation of the above has proved its worth
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~~~~, `w `~huN the iiltimat~ U~opfan _altuation .would be the .product analysis o!'`
~tfi~.~.en~t~re"world on ,e.prior~ty;code basis.: Thin would enable Industrial'; ~,~,
egiater.userg to obtain the: answer to their multitudinous .problems iri `?'.
~~~'mat'ter`.~of hours. ". r `??
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 PROpL.~9: P.eq~:e~tor "._" de:.ires infoi-ration on all plants ir. t`.:e USSR
en~-a~ec in re ~e~r=:: o ; tele.:eteriri~ equip:~ent.
PRODUCT BR','~CE ~O:,L~IO:;:
An L?M prod,;ct ;chine ran was set up for all documents with infor-
mation concerning research on telemetering equipment.. This run
(attactLae.^,t "E.") was completed in 30 minutes . .File search time by
using ~F:i:s run wo~,ild L-e approximately 30 minutes.
The same in~orriation obtained manually would have required
approxi.mntely ?,33 man-hours. This figure. is obtained in accord-
ance with the for::;ula stated below:
a. The IAC major category code for communication and
electronic equipment is 52.
This code is assigned to 562 individual industrial
plants in the USSR.
b. There are approximately 13,000 ICF documents included
in the dossiers of the above mentioned 562 industrial
installations averaging 4 pages per document. This
would bring the total number of pages to 52,000.
c. There are an average of 500 words per page totalling.
2,000 words per document..
d. Average reading time per document is 2 minutes (Based
on formula supplied by OTR, Reading Laboratory)..
e. Total main-hours .equal 13,000 documents x 2 minutes per
document 20,000 minutes or 433 hours.
f. rianual search time 433 hours
Diachine listinb tune 30 minutes
File search tine 30 minutes
Total tine saved 432 hours
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No. o__? Prod. Listings No. of Total Listings
1953
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5
278
1954
l09
1003
1955
462
2287
1956
555
2033
1957
449..
1589
AVERAGE NUN~ER OF PRODUCT'CODES PER VEST
"1954..:
:.:1955
1~5y ,
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Av. No. of Codes r Re uest
Excluding Type;&'Mode1 Listings)
23
18.7
16.8
27.3.
28..3