NEW AUTOMATIC SHOPS, AUTOMATIC TRANSFER MACHINE LINES; INTRODUCTION OF CONSTANT-FLOW PRODUCTION IN USSR PLANTS

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• Sequence Number: 472
• Publication Date: June 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CCUUCCIOFF~NNTIDEEFN9TgI~ALL
CENTRAL INTkLIGENCP AGENO' REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DEC. 114. ?~
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Machine tools,
abrasives
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 Jan - 11 Feb 1953
NEW AUTOMATIC SHOP FOR TRACTOR PISTON PINS -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 3 Jan 53
Testing of a new automatic shop was completed at the Moscow Internal
Grinding Machine Plant on 31 December. it is intended for processing-piston
pins for STZ-NATI and S)Oir/ tractors, and consists of two machine-tool lines.
There are six units in each line. The operations are accomplished in
the following sequence: cutting of pipes into blanks, machining the tdp of
the blanks boring the internal diameter. facing, inside and outside chamfer-
ing, rough grinding the surface, checking the hardness and accepting or reject-
ing, finish grinding, lapping the outer surface, washing and drying the pins,
checking the dimensions and sorting into size groups, marking the pistons, oil
drying, greasing, wrapping, and packing them into boxes. The automatic shop
puts out 60 boxes per hour, each box containing five pistons.
Since the piston pins must be manufactured to a high degree of accuracy,
calculations in microns are made by the machines. Strict automatic controls
permit a deviation in size of not more than 3 microns.
Each automatic line is 100 meters long. The emulsion circulates below
the floor. The total length of electrical wiring in the line is approximately
40 kilometers. The checking and measuring point of the automatic shop re-
sembles a miniature laboratory with modern technical equipment.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
NEW AUTOMATIC SHOPS, AUTOMATIC TRANSFER MACHINE LflES;
INTRODUCTION OF CONSTANT-FLCM PRODUCTION IN USSR PLANTS
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 10 Jan 53
The automatic shop for processing piston pins for STZ-NATI and KhTZ trac-
tors consists of two maaebine-tool lines. Each line is made up of 15 unit-type
machine tools. Both lines have the same design but produce piston pins of
different sizes.
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The automatic shop is attended by one operator and 15 set-up men who
keep an eye on its operation.
At predetermined intervals, adjustment of the grinding machines and iv-
placement of worn-out abrasive wheels take place automatically. '
In the near future, the new automatic shop will be shipped to the Novoros-
siysk Krasnyy Dvigatel' Plant, where spare parts for tractors and automobiles
are produced.
Designers of the Moscow Internal Grinding Machine Plant and design bureaus
of the Ministry of Machine Tool Building designed the new automatic shop.
Production workers, engineers, and technicians of the Moscow Internal Grinding
Machine, Kalibr, and Krasnyy Proietariy Plants, the plant imeni Ordzhonikidze,
and the Gomel' Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Kirov participated in its
construction.
In January, the Internal Grinding Machine Plant will complete the assembly
and adjustment of a second automatic shop for the production of piston pins.
Its productivity will be twice as high as the one which has been assembled.
NINE AUTOMATIC TRANSFER MACHINE LIKES BUILT IN 1951 -- Riga, Sovetskaya Lat-
viya, 11 Jan 53
In 1951, Soviet machine tool builders perfected approximately 150 new
types of high-duty machine tools and presses, and built nine new automatic
transfer machine lines.
The machine tool building industry began producing automatic transfer
machine lines in 1946. Whereas the first lines were intended for performing
drilling, boring, and threading operations in large housings, in recent times
automatic constant-flow lines have been developed for all technological opera-
tions.
For example, in 1951, the Moscow Machine Tool Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze
manufactured an automatic transfer machine line on which all milling opera-
tions on the ED-35 tractor cylinder head can be performed. An automatic line
made up of 11 machine tools whose electric motors have a total power of
126 kilowatts was also developed for machining surfaces and holes in cylinder
heads of combine motors. This automatic line, in addition to drilling and
boring holes, also mills sides and faces. In tvo-shift operation, four men
are needed to attend such a line. To perform this work on individual machine
tools, 46 workers and 23 machine tools would be required. -- A. Pavlov, Deputy
Minister of Machine Tool Building
NEW AUTOMATIC LINE MANUFACTURES EMERY PAPER BY ELECTROSTATIC METHOD -- Moscow,
Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 11 Feb 53
To meet the tremendous demand for emery paper, a group of designers at
the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Abrasives and Grinding have
developed an automatic transfer machine line for its production.
All units in the line have been enclosed in air-tight housings which pre-
vent dust penetration. In the event of breakdown or disruption of the techno-
logical process, a worker can press a button at any place along the line and
stop its entire operation. The greatest achievement made by Leningrad engi-
neers, however, is the sharp improvement in the quality of the product. Emery
paper manufactured by a new so-called electrostatic method lasts four times as
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long as it did formerly. At the Moscow Small Displacement Automobile Plant,
four bodies can now be polished with the same quantity of emery paper as was
formerly required for only one body.
In the new method, a high-voltage current is fed to two wide sheets, the
electrodes. A powerful electrostatic field develops between the electrodes.
Two belts, one over the other, converge in this field. The lower belt has an
evenly sprinkled layer of abrasive powder on it and the upper tough (plotnyy)
paper belt is covered,with fresh glue. Getting caught in the electrostatic
field, the powder crystatLs rush upward toward the electrode and cut into the
glue on the upper belt with great force. The crystals become set in this ver-
tical position. This makes it possible to make full utilization of the cut-
ting properties of the crystals and of the entire emery paper. Previously,
the abrasive powder was simply sprinkled on a glued belt. Because of the un-
even distribution, many crystals performed practically no cutting at all.
In the new method, powerful bulbs dry the glue. For additional strength,
the top of the emery paper is covered with another layer of glue or lacquer.
After a second quick drying, the roll is complete. The belt is cut by auto-
matic shears into sheets of finished emery paper.
A new automatic line is being assembled alongside a conveyer already in
operation at the abrasive tool shop of the Moscow Grinding Products Plant.
The abrasive grains will travel on a conveyer to a mixing chamber from
which they will fall into a press mold. The conveyer will carry the items
which have been molded under pressure to a furnace; from there they will be
transported to a finished products section. More than 100 different opera-
tions untouched by human hands will be performed. Only one operator will be
needed to control such an automatic line.
CONSTANT-FLOW METHODS TO BE USED AT MACHINE TOOL, TOOL PLANTS IN 1953 -- Mos-
cow, Izvestiya, 11 Feb 53
In 1953, the Ministry of Machine Tool Building USSR will be introducing
constant-flow production of machine tools and tools. For example, at the
Dmitrov Milling Machine Plant, universal milling machines for high-speed mill-
ing with spindle speeds up to 1,800 revolutions per minute will be assembled
on conveyers. By the end of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the output of such ma-
chine tools will double, as compared with 1952.
At the Gor'kiy Milling Machine Plant, universal milling machines No 3
with a spindle speed of 1,500 revolutions per minute will be produced by the
constant-flow method. The Odessa Plant is organizing constant-flow produc-
tion of radial drilling machines.
At these plants, a new technology for machining parts is being intro-
duced, as are new attachments and tools. Special unit-type machine tools are
being installed.
Tools will also be manufactured in constant-flow lines at the Moscow
Frezer, Tashkent, and Tomsk Tool Plants.
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