ECONOMIC - METAL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250466-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 466
• Publication Date: September 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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length of productive processes but also the time used in tool setting up,
clamping the work to the machine, to,
CENTRAL'INTELOGENCE AGENCY REPORT
CLASSI1=Ir ON REST'RIcTIEzTRiCTE3
INFORMATION FROM
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Economic - Metal industry
Daily newspaper
Warsaw
12 'iug 1949
TN1Y OOCU111YT CONTAIWI INTO NEATION AIY[C}INI THE NATIONAL O[RNE!
OF TNQ L'N ITEO STATES WITHIN TN[ NEANIEG CF [b IIONAII ACT IO
Y. Q. C.. I I AAT NE, AI NQNOL O. ITT TNANEIII SEION CE TNY ETTE',ATION
UY ITS CONTENTS IN ANAT NAkN[A TO FN UNAUlMHIPANA FLTEON 19 IAO,
NINITIO IT LAW. E[INOOUCTION OF TAIl POSE IT IEONI[IT[0.
SOURCE
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST,,5" Sep 1949
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Aa estimated in the Six-Year Plan, the volume of production in the machine
builling in6ustry will tncree,ae 21- times and productivity will increase 46 per-
cent. This achievemart would be' impossible without iuportant tochnologicALl
changes in the meta! induetry. It is necessary to mechanize and speed up
processes, to introduce multiple operation methods in rrcd.uction, to modernize
machine tools and to reorganize the workshops., All this is embraczd in t?e
Toole of Heat-Treated Alleye
Tools with negative top rake angles will also be used extensively,
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Multiple-Tool Machines
To speed up production, multiple-t.ool macl.inee will be used extensively,
especially in factories engaged in assembly line, production and e9peciail' In
automobile plants, tractor plants, and machine-tool plants. Multiple drilling
machines, encased milling machines, mul.tiple-tool machines, and combiwo,ion
machine tools will be widely used, Domestic production of these macl_'rec wii'
be started. The number of multiple-tool machines jr the machine earl- will be
doubled. The use of automatic machines, turret lahes draw plates, rd radial
drilling machines will increase while the ntmiier of small output machi.er, euni
as lathes and shaping machines will decrease,. The numbe? of turret lithos will
be increr.sed`to twice the number of lathes.
An important task of the technological plan is to shorten the time cf
preparation as well as the machining time. The use of automatic and scat
automatic chucks will he adopted to shorten he ilme of attachhinr the work-
piece to the machine. Production of automatic chucks will increase el.e.venfol.d
and the percentage of machine tools equipped with automatic chucks fl ,fo;d.
To insure better-equipped machines, a central plant for the production of
chucks and other tools will be opened,
The heat-treatment operation will he radically c ioitened by adopting
tlgh-frequency current, and carbonization and decarbonization by means of
gases instead of powders.
The tendency of the new construction technique in the metals industry is
to change over to the welding together, of pressed parts aver, in the production
of precision instrtmtente. It is exneeted that this method of manufacture will
be widely used, es,eclal'ly in large-scale assembly-line production. The well-
Ing of high-strength steel and automatic welding will be perfected. Foundries
and forges will be basically reorganized and mechanized. Several. new foundries
will be built, entirely mechanized with automatic sand conveyors, automatic
molding, and automatic-conditioning of sand. As a result of modernization,
mechanized production of castings will represent almost one half of the total
value. In the molding sections the average ou'put from one square meter will
increase from 2.2 tone to 3.7 tons and the productivity of a molder will be 22
times greeter in mechanized operation than in manual operation. The method of
forging with molds will be used to a great extent ,62 percent), Coal furnaces
will be replaced by gas furnacee.
Assembly-Line Production
To make the proposed technical changes effective, important chances in shop
organization are foreseen. The assembly-line syst,nu will be metalled, with
machine tools placed in the order of their operation, Ono man will operate
several machines simultaneously, especially machines with long cycles of
operation, ouch as heavy lathes, horizontal shaping machines, round work mi11-
irg machines, and shaping and grinding machines for gears. Cranes will be
in[talled beside the heavy machines to facilitate moving heavy parts.
At least 14 plants will adopt the assembly-line system, especially plants
producing automobiles, tractors, farm machines, machine tools, bicycles,
motorcycles, water meters, farm engines, and textile machines.
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Mechanization of Transport Within the Plant
During the period of the plan, transport withthe plants, which now ie
quite primitive, even in the modern pr,nte, will. be radically mechanized. Besides
assembly conveyors, the following will be widely used: roller conveyors, chutes,
stationary cranes, and self-'loading carte with movable platforms. Installed
power in transport equipment per worker will he doubled,
'rt will take concerted effort on the part of industrial., trade, and party
organizations to put through these plane. Literature on high-speed cutting, on
tools with negative top rake angled, and on standardization of tooling and chucks
should be compiled and publ'_sliod-. Experience of shock workers should be made
-available to a great number of workers. Through periodicalp, courses, and di.s.-
pl.ays,it will be necessary to acquain* the workers and technicians with the
new methods ofheat treatruent, such as tempering with high-frequency current,
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