NOTE HEAVY CUT IN MOSCOW POWER CONSUMPTION; NEW MACHINE TOOLS READ BLUEPRINTS

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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO,
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
HOW DATE DIST. ~,G Jan 1951
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; monthly periodical
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Machine tools,
Electric power
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PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 23 May - 24 Nov 1950
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NOTE HEAVY CUT IN MOSCOW POWER CONSUMPTION;
NEW MACHINE TOOLS READ BLUEPRINTS
HEAVIEST REDUCTION DURING THIRD QUARTER -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 2 Now 50
In 10 months of 1950 Moscow enterprises have cut down their electrical con-
sumption by 94 million kilowatt-hours. Of this total, 40 million kilowatt-hours
were saved during the third quarter of the year,
About two thirds of the power consumed by Moscow enterprises goes into the
machining of metal. Hence, the tremendous economy effected by the conversion to
nibh-speed cutting. Speedup of cutting at the First State Bearings Plant saved
213,000 kilowatt-hours; at the Dinamo Plant, 100,000 hours.
Another way of saving power is through the use of automatics and improved
organization of production. Such measures at the Moscow Plant for Low-Power
Automobiles saved 750,000 kilowatt-hours in 10 months. The Serp i molot Plant
saved 400,000 kilowatt-hours.
Unfortunately, not all enterprises are cooperating in the power-conserva-
tion drive. The Krasnokholmskiy Combine regularly exceeds its monthly quota of
electric power. The Moscow Elektroprovod Plant wastes about 100,000 kilowatt-
hours a month.
The Moscow Electric Power System is vigorously preparing its facilities
for the winter peak period. Industrial enterprises should do the same.
TAKE MEASURES TO SAVE ELECTRIC POWER -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 24 Nov 50
At the beginning of 1950, although the electric power substation for the
Stankolit Plant was i:..rking at full capacity, more new equipment had to be put
into operation.
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Electrical engineers were faced with the problem of putting additional
equipment into operation without receiving additional power.
The problem was solved by increasing the power factor, decreasing machine
idling, eliminating losses in laj?ge motors and mains transformers, and intensi-
fying a drive to save power at all sections of the plant.
This not only effected a saving of power but also made further mechaniza-
tion possible in sand preparation, compressor stations, and ventilation. The
plant has freed itself from fines which it had to pay for inefficient use of
electric power.
The plant's specialists took advantage of the experience of other enter-
prises. More economical casting equipment was used. Instead of sand-blasting
chambers and knocking-out grates, operating in compressed air, metal-shot blast-
ing chambers and electromechanical knocking-out grates were introduced. This
decreased the consumption of electric power more than 150,000 kilowatt-hours
per year.
The plant's electrical engineers have given a great deal of attention to
preparing the electrical power system for the fall and winter season. To
lighten the load on the existing line leading into the repair-machine and pat-
tern shops, an additional 1.5 kilometers of cable have been laid. High-.-and
low-voltage cables have been checked, and all of the plant's electrical equip-
ment has been grounded.
Not resting on their laurels, the electrical engineers and mechanics are
working on measures for further saving of power. For increasing the power fac-
tor during nonworking days and between shifts, a low-capacity mains transformer
will be switched on. Another sand-blasting chamber is being replaced by a metal-
shot blasting chamber. The plant's work regime is being organized so as to main-
tain the maximum load at 20 percent below the established limit during the eve-
ning hours. One of the furnaces is being converted to operate with preheating
of blast. -- V. Gubskiy, chief electrical engineer, Stankolit Plant
ROBOT MACHINE TOOL READS BLUE PRINTS -- Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 8 Oct 50
The plant at which engineer-designer A. I. Kir'yanov works has put out a
machine for machining locomotive cylinders. Although it weighs 180 tons and
ten railroad cars are required to transport it, a single button controls it.
L. I. Kir'vanov designs machine tools for the Leningrad Plant imeni
Sverdlov.
At present designers are working on "obedient" machine tools which re-
spond to the push of a button, and so-called "seeing" machine tools. "Read-
ing" photoelectric cells are used in such a machine tool. Taking his place
at the machine tool with the "reading" instrumenw, the worker fills the ma-
chine with coolant, checks the lubrication, and then "hands" the drawing of
the part to be manufactured to the machine tool.
A sheet of paper with a profile drawing of the part is secured beneath
the reading instrument. A fine, needlelike beam of light glides over the
drawing while the machine tool saws, grinds, drills.
Machine tools that read drawings are sometimes called "machine tools
with a higher education," which is a very appropriate name. All of the lat-
est technical achievements have been incorporated in their manufacture, such
as photoelectric cells, electr:.n tubes, electric-spark tools, and a number of
complex and precision instruments. All this makes the machine tool "seeing."
Parts which were.formerly machined on various types of machine tools by skilled
workers are now manufactured by these machines. -- Leningrad
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OPTICAL ATTACHMENT SOLVES CUTTER-SUPPLY PROBLEM -- Moscow, Pravda, 4 Nov 50
Ivan Kartashev, a fitter at the Leningrad Ekonomayzer Plant, has success-
fully simplified and decreased the cost of the manufacture.of milling cutters
(zub:hikovyy rezets) used for machining turbine disks and gate parts. These
cutters are widely used and for this reason are frequently scarce at turbine-
building plants. They must be accurate to thousandths of a millimeter.
Until now these cutters were manufactured on special machine tools. Sup-
plying plants frequently delayed shipment of these tools. Each cutter cost the
enterprise a considerable amount of money. Practice has shown that the special
machine tools will not produce cutters to the required accuracy, and therefore
the cutters had to be finished by hand at the receiving plant. Highly skilled
gauge-makers had to perform this operation,
Kartashev designed and tested a very simple optical attachment which he
mounted on an ordinary grinding machine. A motor drove the spindle on which
the grinding stone was mounted The optical system made it possible for the
worker to see that the cutters were given the required profile. With the use
of'a special screen, a 20-power linear image of the tooth being machined is
projected. Use of the new attachment has shown that the cutter can be machined
to an accuracy which cannot be compared with those manufactured on special ma-
chine tools. T:_e process of their manufacture is speeded up many times. The
cutters cost the plant 25-30 times less than formerly. They can be manufactured
by any rank-and-file machine-tool operator.
Formerly scarce tools are now abundant at the Ekonomayzer Plant. One worker
can now produce enough precision milling cutters on an ordinary machine tool in
two shifts to last a whole month.
The chief of the Main Administration of Enterprises of the Boiler and Tur-
bine Industry has issued an order in which he instructs all directors of boiler
and turbine plants to take advantage of the innovation and use the new attach-
ment extensively.
Some time ago Kartashev rejected the technically outdated and inadequate
plan of electronic control used in the Gisholt Machine Company's dynamic bal-
ancing machines for turbine rotors. He claims to have developed and assembled
a system wherein the control panel is simplified and a faultless accuracy of
balancing has been achieved.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 11 Nov 50
For the purpose of wide dissemination of Kartashev's methods, the insti-
tute of Orgtyazhmash, together with the inventor, is working on shop drawings
on the proposed attachments.
The following works will be published for plants of the Ministry of Heavy
Machine Building: "Grinding Diametric Checking Devices," "Grinding Linear Check-
ing Devices," "Grinding Disk-Cutters," and "Methods. of Engraving."
The Central Scientific Research Institute of Heavy Machine Building together
with Kartashev will make shop drawings for balancing machines and machines for
profile grinding. These machine tools will be produced in 1951.
Kazakov, Minister of Heavy Machine Building, has expressed appreciation to
Kartashev for his iiven ion and has rewarded him with 5,000 rubles.
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