SOVIET INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION HIGH: QUALITY OF PRODUCTS LOW

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDSNTIAL
ECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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INFORMATION 19213 - 1953
Economic; Technological - Machine tools, produc-
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CITE GROfiTH IN USSR INDUSTRY -- Moscow, Stanki i Instrument, Apr 53
During 35 Years of Soviet rule, industrial production in the USSR has
increased 39 times. In this period, approximately 7,000 large-scale enter-
prises have been renovated, built, or put into operation.
31 May 53
them;" ~uoted from an article by A. Ye. Prokopovich, chief engineer of t'e
DOUBLE MACRINE-TOOL PARK IN 8 YEARS -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 7 Apr 53
From 1945 thrcttgh 1952, the machine-tool park of Soviet enterprises has
more than doubled a:: s result of supplementing it with machine tools.
39 AUTOMATIC TRANSFER MACHINE LINES ARE Ift OPF~2ATIOPI -- Mosco-a, Pravda, 13 "1aY 53
Soviet industry ins nrcx?uced and is operating 39 automatic transfer machine
lines for the production of parts for automobiles, tractors, agricultural machin-
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MASTERS PRODUCTION OF NEW MACHINE TOOLS -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
4 Mar 53
The Melltopol' Machine Tool Building Plant has mastered the production of
nev machine tools for constant-flow automatic transfer machine lines.
A grinding-polishing machine has been approved for series production. It
x111 process parts by means of a flexible abrasive belt.
In 1953, the plant xill produce more than 100 machine tools for the manu-
facture of knives and forks.
At present, the plant ie mastering the production .of an electrical erosion
machine for processing complex-shaped parts.
CLAIMS AT VPPEBSK MACHINE-POOL PLANTS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 16 May 53
In 1952, the Vitebsk Machine Taol Puilding Plant imeni Komintern put out
good-quality products, having produced thousands of machine tools and having
received only three complaints. In no case involving a clairu was the plant at
fault.
The Vitebsk Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Kirov, on the other hand,
has not done so well. The number of complaints increased from 31 in 1951 to
42 in 1952. Kaleahin is its director; and Sviridenko, its chief engineer.
AATICORROSIVE PLATING ELIMIRATES NEID FOR NONFERROUS METALS -- Moscow, Vestnik
Mashinostroyeniya, May >3
The Orel Plant of Glavpishchemssh (Main Administration of Food Machinery
Bui].d1ng, Ministry of Light and Food Industry USSR) is perfecting a technology
for producing an anticorrosive pia+.ing with BF-2 sizing and Bakelite lacquer for
ferrous metals. This will make it possible for the plant to eliminate almost
completely the need for nonferrous metals in the manufacture of s large number
of machines and apparatue.
EMPHASIZE POOR QUALITY OF PRODUCTS -- Moscow, Stanki 1 Instrument, Sep 52
During the postwar yearn, enterprises of t'aE Ministry of Machine Tool
Building have designed and perfected a large quantity of new modern machine
tools, presses and forging machines, foundry machinery, and tools. Nearly nil
designs of universal machine tools nov being produ~::d by the plants have been
replaced by new designs.
Although a great deal of progress has been made in this field; the quality
of. products put out must be improved. Some plants have riot fulfilled their
obligations in decreaFing losses due to reJects. In the ministry as a whole,
these losses exceeded one percent in 1951. In 4 months of '1952, they even
increased at certain enterprises. Among these plants are the Minsk, Vinnitsa,
Voroshilovgrad, and Chkalov F"?.nts.
At the Tbilisi Tsentto~it Plant, losses due to rejects reach=d 613,000
rubles in 4 months of 1952? Such a condition points to the poor xork on the
part of the plant's OTK (Office of Technical Coc~trol}.
Evidence of the poor quality of products pat out by the plants is the
significant number of complaints received from consumers. For example, the
Moseaw Rrasnyy Froletariy Plant has received complaint on Model 1620, and the
Kuybyshev Srednevolzhekiy Plant on Model 161G.
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Because .of the Boor quality of anticorrosive processing, deviation from
drafted dimensions and technical specifications, careless finishing, and poor
packing, there have been complaints sad return of tools produced by the 3estro-
retsk Plant Smeai Voskov and the Hovoeibirsk pleat.
PGIR1'' OUT 7.CN QUALIFICATIGB3 OF 0790 3TAFF3 -- Moecw, Za Ekoaomiyu Materialov,
Bov $2
As is knwn, a plant's OTK is responsible for the output of good quality
products. Hwever, at certain enterprises, these divisions are staffed xith
poorly qurlltied workers, xhich makes it impossible to carry out proper control
over each operation and over the acceptance of finished products.
The GTK at the Moecw Grinding Machine Plant is made up of 69 vorkera,
only three of wham have a higher education. The other 66 have no more than
secondary education or in some cases incomplete secondary education. At the
GTK of the Moecw Machlne Tool Building Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze, of 162 men,
only three have received higher education and only 15 have completed secondary
education.
Although it ie not mandatory that all workers of the OTK complete higher
or secondary technical education, the task of increasing the qualifications
of these workers must be given serious attention. -- P. KarFov, chief, Coor-
dinating Planning Administration of Gosanab, USSR.
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