SOVIETS INCREASE, IMPROVE INSTRUMENT PRODUCTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 457
• Publication Date: May 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic; Technological - Precision instruments,
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SOVIETS INCF.ASE, IMPROVE
INSTRUMENT PRODUCTION
MAKES SEISMOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION -- Riga, Sovetskaya
Latviya, 22 Feb 51
The Riga Etalon Plant is filling a large order for the Academy of Sciences
USSR. It is making seismographic instruments for the academy's Aralo-Caspian
expedition, which is engaged in scientific exploration on the course of the Main
Turkmen Canal.
A total of more than 80 instruments will be produced, including Palvanome-
ters, recording devices, and other types of precision mechanisms.
SUPPLY INSTRUMENTS TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 8 Mar 51
The Tbilisi Gidrometpribor Plant has shipped instruments for measuring evap=
oration to the Kuybyshev Hydrometric Service Administration. It is filling arm
ders for the Volga and Turkmen construction projects. The Tbilisi Machine-Tool-
Building Plant-imeni Kirov has shipped universal screw-cutting machines to the
new construction projects.
TO INITIATE NEW PRODUCTION PROCESSES -a Moscow, Trud, 24 Feb 51
Output at the Moscow Instruments Plant in 1950 was more than four and a
half times that of 1946. Output of instruments per square meter of production
area for the same period increased four times. This is the result of wide mech-
anization of production, the use of up-to-date technology, conversion to even-
flow production methods, and the introduction of conveyer assembly lines.
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In spite of such progress, the plant has the capacity for further utiliza-
tion of its equipment. To mobilize supplementary reserves, it is necessary,
above all, to Jack up the sections in which productive technological processes
have not been adequately preserved.
The instrument-building industry requires a huge quantity of reinforcing
materials. However, these are often produced by obsolete methods which do not
measure up to the contemporary standard of production.
A highly productive method of cold upsetting and simultaneous grooving on
automatics, with subsequent knurling and finishing should be introduced. Pre-
cision casting, semiliquid stamping of nonferrous metals, and other new methods.
are to be used,
CONVERTS TO DAILY WORK SCHEDULE -- Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 2 Mar 51
The Moscow Instruments Plant has gone over to a daily work schedule. The
production cycle for the manufacture of instruments has been cut several times.
There-is now an even flow of goods from the raw materials warehouse to the ware-
house for ready output. Each worker's output has increased almost one and a
half times.
INTRODUCES NEW METHODS -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 6 Feb 51
About 100 machine-tool operators at the Moscow Mennmetr Plant have con-
verted to high-speed cutting methods. The thread on large-diameter screws is
now cut by the vertical method; electrolytic machining now replaces hand-polish-
ing of brass and steel parts; and a new furnace for cementation of steel parts,
operating on natural Saratov gas, has been built. The use of the new furnace
has doubled the speed of heat treatment of items. Further improvements in the
furnace are expected to increase its capacity.
CAMPS PROTECTED BY ELECTRONIC MEANS -- Moscow, Tekhnika-Molodezhi, Feb 51
Electronics plays a large part in the automatization of many machines and
production processes; and in the technology of workers' protection, communica-
tions and signaling, precision measurements, and accounting.
S. D. Klement'ev in a popular technical book Electronic Automatics (Moscow,
Dosarm, 1950, 156 pp) discusses various types of-photoelectric cells, giving
interesting examples of their use. One of their applications is to keep beasts
of prey away from camps. The camp is encircled with infrared rays. If they are
crossed at any point, an alarm signal is sounded.
A photoelectric relay, set up near the pipe lines of a production shop,
controls temperature or pressure. In case, of the slightest deviation from the
norm, the relay acts upon the valves and restores the normal conditions.
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