OFFICE OF QUALITY CONTROL (MEO)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18. Sections 793 and 794,6f the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Office of Quality Control .(MEP)
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1. Or anization.
a. Within the Hungarian Ministry for Metallurgical and. Machine Industries tf(N I)
there is a section called the Office of Quality Control (Min8shg Ellenorz
Osztaly or MEO). This section is responsible for exercising control of the
quality of materials and products tbroughcut industrial establishments sub-
ordinated ~o NMI.
be Although under the Technical Directorate of IWI, the ML0 in practice comes
Minister Qrula Karadi.
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Quality control is exercised at all levels from major subdivisions of the
MMMI down to individual producing plants:,. and MEO is responsible for directing
and co-ordinating the activities of quality control groups at all these varying
levels. Personnel engaged ' in quality. control in all b ranches of metallurgical
and engineering industry, excluding armaments, totals about 13,500; if estab-
lishments producing armaments are included the figure is about 18,000.
Functions.
A. ME0 is responsible for drafting regulations governing plant organization,
methods of work, allocation and use of equipment, introduction of new appli-
ances and machinery, and disciplinary measures connected with maintenance of
quality standards. Drafts are submitted, according to the scope of the regu-
lations and,the degree of. responsibility involved, for signature either by
the Deputy Minister?Karadi or by the minister himself.
be MAO is also charged with drawing up annual budgetary allocations for all
instruments and appliances used in the exercise of quality control; this allo-
cation is made by MRO to major divisions of the ministry only; their ultimate
breakdown to plant level being the task.of the quality control groups at the
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various levels down the chain of administrative command.
colt is. further the duty of MEO to supervise the compilation of production
statistics to ensure that reject production is entered as such and not per-
mitted to swell the figures for standard production.
d. On the 20th of each month, ME0 compiles a report, based on data passed up the
chain of quality control command from plant level, for circulation to the minister,
Deputy Minister Karadi, and-the Planning, Central Accounts, and Central Statistics
departments of the Ministry.' This report states the value of production in
forints (based on values specified in the Plan for the Year) by major divisions
of the industry and by each individual plant, as also the value (in terms of
total real costs) of all reject production and waste, the percentage of waste
to'standard production, and an analysis of the causes of waste (i.e. faulty
machinery, poor materials, inefficiency of labor, etc.).
3. . rment,
a.. The shortage of testing equipment of all kinds, more particularly of modern
types, is:very serious. An indication of this is, that although the MEO esti-
mates for 1954 requirements for measuring and other precision testing equipment
for all establishments of MMMI (excluding armaments production plants) amounted
to a value of 14 m, forints, the requisitions finally authorized by the minister
were for only 1.4 m. forints. This state of affairs only'serves to aggravate
the basic difficulty in applying proper qualititative control, which is that
wages are still principally based on the quantitative output.
b..Until recently the simpler items of quality testing equipment, such as sliding
calipers, micrometers., setsquares and measuring gauges, were manufactured in
Hungary principally by:
l,),Gamma Precision Mechanics Enterprise (Gamma Finommekanikai Vallalat) of
81/83/85 Feherviry ut, Budapest XI,, Tel: 258890.
2.) Calliper Factory (Kalibergyar) of 13/17.Karmelit utca, Budapest XIII,
Tel: 200505#
c. Rather more advanced equipment, including electronic devices for measuring
thickness and determining composition, is being manufactured by Electronic
Measuring Ijnstrument Works (Elektroteknikus Mer8Wnuszerekgy&ra or EMG) formerly
of 24 Erzsebet utca, Ujpest,,~Budapest IV, and, since July 1953, in new pre-
mises at Sashalom near the Matyasfold airfield (exact location is unknown).
Instruments coming from this plant are still, however, in the experimental
stage and therefore not yet in quantity production.
Ih o rt of Instruments,
The following instruments are imported:
a, From the USSR Principally micrometers (0-1000 mm. for inside and outside mea-
surements), tensiometers, durometers, these instruments bear neither trade mark
nor maker's name.. Exact import figures are not known but they arrive only in
very small quantities.
b. From Czechoslovakia: Eltas micrometers (for high precision work,
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insensitive to vibration), thread measuring wires, thread-testing instruments
and gauge blocks. The majorit of these are believed to come from the Brno
Armament Works (Zbrojovka Brno in Brno. Import of these is limited by Czech
internal requirements.
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c. From East Germaiy A wide variety of instruments of all types.
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e. From other Western Countries: Precision and measuring instruments are being
imported from whatever source they can be obtained. Such imports are governed
by:
1.) availability of foreign currencies;
2.) Western restrictions on the export of precision equipment.
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