LARGE MACHINE TOOL AND TOOL PLANTS IN MOSCOW FAIL TO FULFILL PLAN

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• Publication Date: April 23, 1954
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT , Economic; Technological - Machine tools
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PUBLISHED,;;: wily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 14, 19 Oct 1953
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LARGE MACHINE TOOL AND TOOL PLANTS IN MOSCOW FAIL TO FULFILL PLAN
POOR O ANIZATION?AT MACHINE PLANT -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, i4 Oct 53
In the last few, years, the Moscow Internal Grinding Machine Plant has
mastered the production of the most intricate high-precision jig boring,
thread:grinding, and special machine tools ever produced in the Soviet"Union.
riThe plant personnel consists of highly skilled workers, foremen, and`eugineere
who are capable of solving the most complex technical problems. 'In recent,.,
years, more than 200 jig boring and about 600 thread-grinding machines have
been produced. In 1952-1953, the plant submitted to a state commission two
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aoon pins.
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Yet, the plant has been lagging for a long time. For 5 years, the enter-
prise has failed to fulfill its production program; it has failed to supply
machine builders with the required quantity of machine tools of those models
specified by the plan.
The reasons for the chronic lagging of the plant are many. They can be
divided' into two groups, internal and external.
One of the main reasons for the nonfulfillment of the state plan is the
spasmodic output of products during the month; in other words, last-minute
speed-up. It is no coincidence that overtime work is still being put in at the
plant.
.s The design and technological divisions are not meeting their schedules
for making final adjustments on all machine tools. Certain machine tools re-
main for months in unfinished condition, placing a heavy burden on the finances
of the plant.
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The machine shops are not working satisfactorily. Organizational and
technical measures are being poorly carried out. There is a shortage of equip-
ment, advanced work methods are being in'.;oduced slowly, there are still a
large number of rejects, and the technical training of workers is poorly or-
ganized.
Discipline at the plant is not good. There are instances of loafing and
of violations in prod-action ind technological discipline. This, among other
things, leads to a lowering in the quality of products and to greater losses
due to rejects. In the first half of 1953 alone, the cost of production was
671,000 rubles in excess of plan and nonprcductive expenditures were 210,000
rubles in excess of plan.
The unsatisfactory operation of the plant can be blamed first of all on
its managerial personnel. Tsukanov, plant director, does not take decisive
measures to eliminate shortcomings or to organize production work. He does not
try to get positive answers to a number of urgent plant problems from Glavstan-
koprom (Main Administration of Machine Tool Building I:dustry) or from the
ministry.
The level of party organizational and political work at the plant is also
failing to meet current requirements.
The plant party organization and plant management have recognized their
responsibilities for these intraplant shortcomings and are taking measures to
eliminate them. A detailed plan to comprehensively improve the work at the
shops and divisions has been developed. The execution of this plan will,
without a doubt, produce good results.
However, the enterprise cannot by its own power catch up with its pro-
gram. The wrong attitude of Glavstankoprom toward the plant is also respon-
sible to a great extent for this situation.
The basic reason for all plant failings is that Glavstankoprom forgets
about the enterprise's specialization in producing precision jig boring
machines and thread-grinding machines for internal and external threading.
Glavstankoprom has often discussed the need for developing a plan and es-
timating the cost of replanning and redesigning the plant to assure high pre-
cision production.
Despite its numerous promises, Glavstankoprom has not yet found time to
give the plant effective and practical help in overcoming a number of diffi-
culties for which the plant personnel are not responsible.
Instead, the proportion of unrelated products in the plant program in-
creases from year to year.
he great number of type sizes of machine tools for various purposes and
of varying accuracies, including; heavy machine tools (up to 60 tons), which the
plant must manufacture restricts the plant in developing the seven or eight
types of jig boring and thread-grinding machines which identify the basic
function of the enterprise.
The list of equipment produced at the plant has increased to such an ex-
tent that workers at the machine and assembly shops are faced with unsolvable
problems. They do not know which machine tools to build first, because to
meet all assignments at the same time is impossible.
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CONFIDENTIAL.
There is neither sufficient time nor equipment to carry out the assign-
ments. All reasonable complaints which the plant sends to Glavstankcpro^.
(Karpov, chief) receive the same reply, "Do that which you have been assigned."
What this is leading to can be illustrated by the following fact. The
1953 production program includes ten Model 2460 [jig boring machines], the
first experimental model of which has not yet been completed. Other models
such as the 2440 [jig boring machine], 5824, and 5810 [thread-grinding machines],
have not yet been fully perfected. In volume of work, these unperfected
machine tools constitute as much as one fourth of the plant's annual program.
Glavstankoprom overloads the plant with assignments without taking its
actual production base into consideration. The plant lacks adequate assembly
space. Personnel must work under very crowded conditions. The worker has
no place to put tools or parts needed for assembly. Workers literally stand
in line to use the overhead cranes. There are only two cranes among 15
brigades that assemble jig boring machines, and only one crane for 30 men
who n:ssemble units.
Year after year, the plant is not supplied with high-precision levels
for scraping surfaces. In the fifth assembly shop there are only three or
four levels for 50 assembly workers. Special conditions such as constant
temperature, good equipment, protection from external influences (,jolts, per-
cussions, and vibration), stands, special equipment for the manufacture of
precision parts, etc., are mandatory fora number of Precisionjobs. These
conditions do not yet exist at the plant.
Even series-produced, formerly perfected machine tools are still being
assembled according to a technology developed 5 years ago. Workers still use
primitive methods because they do not have the proper equipment. Holes are
lapped by hand and scrapping operations have not been mechanized.
The plant does not have an experimental base where now designs could be
tented and tried. For this reason, untried machine tools are put into series
production. Consequently, assembled machines are taken apart (perebiratsya)
and readjusted several times. Occasionally this happens at the consumer
plant, as was the case, for example, with the Model 2440 machine tools.
Glavstankoprom must study the plant's problems,define its function, and
help it to set up rhythmic production. -- A. Vartanyan, secretary of the party
organization of the Moscow Internal Grinding Machine Plant.
11M03COd PLAif'TS LAG IN PRODUCTION -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 19 Oct 53
Among the large enterprises that did not complete the 9-month program
are the Moscow Internal Grinding Machine Plant and the Moscow Frezor Plant
imeni Kalinin.
The Internal Grinding Machine Plant failed to fulfill its 9-month plan
for gross and commodity production. As a result, the country received dozens
of machine tools less than required. These include 30 thread-grinding and jig
boring machines which had been perfected by the plant a long time ago. The
plant failed to fulfill its plan in all technical and eeoncmic indexes.
Two other plants, the Moscow Grinding Iiachine and Krasnaya Peasnya plants,
also operated unsatisfactorily. Glavstankoprom failed to give necessary
assistance to these laggin plants.
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Glukharev, director of the Moscow Grinding Machine Plant criticized the
design bureaus of the Ministry of Machine Building USSR for submitting in-
adequately worked out blueprints to industry.
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