CRITICISM OF DISORGANIZATION AT TALLIN PLANT; EXCESSIVE TRANSIT OF ELECTRIC MOTORS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 420
• Publication Date: September 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic; Technological - Electrical industry
Daily newspapers
USSR
28 Apr - 22 May 1953
REPORT
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CRITICISM OF DISORGANIZATION AT TALLIN PLAiIT:
ERCESSIVE TRANSIT OF ELECTRIC MOTORS
PLA27'1' FAILS TO PRODUCE MOTORS -- Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 19 May 53
For more than a year, the Ta11in Volta Plant has not been fulfilling its
production prcgram, thus depriving the state of hundreds of electric motors and
other products. The plant administration att*ibutes this failure to an in-
creased production program and a labor shortaCe. However, the first quarter
1953 production program is approximstely the same as that of the first quarter
1952, while the number of workers at the plant have~increased,by 120 in 1953?
The real reason for the plan failures ac the plan. lies in the poor
organization of production. For example, in the assembly shop, more than half
the workers are idle because of n shcrtage of motor shells and other parts.
Sand, iron, and other materials are not properly stored, a.~d, as a result,
tens of tons of molding sand have been rendered useless. Different types of
iron are not stored separately, and the cupola furnaces are loaded haphazardly.
Since furnace charges are no*, analyzed at the plant, cast parts are often too
hard for machining, or e].s=_ they are too sof*., and break when machined. Re-
~ects in the ?'ourdry emount to 15 percent of total output. Defective castings
may not be detected 'mtil the final stages of machining. In April; 560 electric
motor shells were found to have casting defects after machining. So far i.n
May, the machine shop hss failed to turn out '. '7 size 5 shells on schedule,
even though the month plan *_"or tli~m had been reduced 800 shells i; comparison
with that fo. E:a^ 1952. This ;allure ?.:as due to defective castings.
Ir. the press shop in April, 1o-.m time of presses totaled 370 machine-
shifts Presses are repaired oily '.rh^^ e br akde~?:. occurs.
There have been instances whey=_ only one of the 40 presses in the press
shop was in operation because of a shortcge of dies.
The Division o: the Chief Mechanic (Seyet, chief mechanic) on orders from
Pechenev; plant director, spends all 0_^ its time installing new equipment and
neglects basic repairs of ms.chine toils. Even the installation of new equip-
ment is carried out slowly and haphazardly. Bobyrev, chief engineer ~t tl:e
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plant, says that shortages of certain parts cause the delay, but why should
new equipment lack parts? Unit-type machine tools received in 1950 were
dumped around the plant at random
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s a result, some parts were stolen and
others became useless because of improper storage. Thus, the two tool shops
have the double burden of preparing basic tools for production and of making
replacement parts for "new" equipment. In the feverish scramble to fulfill
production quotas, the tool shops have at times been pressed into machining
shr*'ts for electric motors. It has long been suggested that one of the tool
shn~s specialize in making accessories, but no action has been taken along
' -e lines.
As a result,~rtheaVolktatPlanthhasstoareproducetall of itssmeasuringtinstrus
meats in triplicate every month.
The failures of the Volta Plant are attributable to poor organization
and the lack of intelligent leadership. The plant director does not consult
with engineers and experienced production men, and turns a deaf ear to criti-
cism. He tries to rirn the plant singlehanded, and tries to do the fobs of
the production chief, tiie chief engineer, and even the shop directors. Numer-
ous decisions have been enacted to correct the shortcomings of the Volta
Plant, but it is time that more effective measures be taken.
SERIES-PRGDUCE MO'T'ORS -- Yerevan, Konrtrrunist, 28 Apr 53
The Yerevan Electrical Repair Plant has organized the series output of
small electric motors. The plant will produce tens of thousands of these
motors in 143.
The plant nos actually changed from a repair plant to an electrical
machine building plant. Electric motors and welding transformers with the
plant's trademark "YeERZ" have been shipped to Moscow, IShabarovsk, Gor'kiy,
Stalino, Riga, and the construction projects.
HIT RESHIPMENT OF ELECTRIC 61CTORS -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 15 May 53
The Yerevan Small Hydroturbines Plant receives electric motors for pumps
from plants located thousands of kilometers away, and then sometimes ships the
finished pumps to the point of origin o^ the motors. For example, the plant
shipped to Tomsk pumps with motors made by a Tomsk plant. In 1952, the plant
paid 347,000 rubles in railroad freight charges for the shipment of electric
motors.
The Yerevan Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy, the Yerevan
plant of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Procurement Armenian
SSR, and several other Yerevan enterprises also receive electric motors from
far-off plants.
Such shipments are unnecessary, because there are plants of the Ministry
of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry in Yerevan xhich produce
electric motors. However, these motors are being shipped to other parts of the
country. Two years ago, Cosplan Armenisn SSR ide _. at;P~,pt :o eliminate these
cross shipments, but nothing was do^~ ai>i t' ?rl.ole problem h~~ appareitly been
forgotten.
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SHIPS ELECTRIC MOTORS -- Moscow, Vechergyaya Moskva, 22 MaY 53
The Moscow Electrical Plant imeni Vladimir I1'ich ships electric motors
to Azerbay3zhan, the Ukraine, Belorussia, and Tadzhikistan.
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