METAL-SAVING CAMPAIGN AT URAL RAILROAD CAR PLANT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700070510-6
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 510
• Publication Date: August 1, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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Party Organiaar,
Ural Railroad C1r Plant
The Ural Railroad Car Plant uses an enormous quantity of metal. It is
very important, therefore, to strive for an over-all reduction in the con-
sumption of metal for every railroad cer.
Workers of the press shop initiated a socialist competition for saving
metal. Waste metal was t) be collected and sorted by types of steel and by
size. This project of the press shop was approved by the plant's party
committee and by the bureau of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Committee of the VKP(b).
All other shops and divisions of the plant joined in the metal-saving campaign.
This brought remarkable results. During 1951, losses of rolled metal were
less than one eighth of what they were in 1950. Losses of metal in foundry
shops were also reduced considerably.
The plant and settlement areas were cleaned of scrap metal; processing
of slag dumps was intensified. As a result, shipments of scrap metal to
ferrous metallurgy plants were increased 60 percent in l ,1, as compared with
1950. At the same time, deli?reries of scrap metal from "Glavvtorchermet"
(Main Administration of Procurement, Processing, and Sale of Ferrous Metal
Scrap) for the plant's own metallurgical production did not increase.
The plant has introduced a large number of measures to ensure saving of
metal. Considerable quantities of rolled metal can be preserved by a more
efficient layout of patterns, hot and cold stamping with minimum tolerances,
and the use of waste metal for manufacturing a number of parts.
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 Party organizations in the plant shops constantly supervise the carrying
out of these measures. For example, it was determined in the press shop that
some layout charts were not well planned, causing considerable losses of metal.
The party bureau demanded that the metal-saving campaign be stepped up. New
layout charts were prepared which made it possible to save 39 kilograms of
metal on each railroad car. Production of 70 different parts from waste metal
was organized. At the initiative of several workers, production of washers
from waste metal was begun.
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Consistent efforts in the correct utilization of each kilogram of metal
have resulted in a high record of production in the press shop. During 1951,
the shop saved 288 tons of rolled metal. In 1952, the shop has pledged to save
360 tons of rolled metal and 55 tons of alloyed (shaped) and nonferrous metal.
The forge shop has also achieved notable results. By improving technological
methods, reforging waste metal, and by other means, forge workers saved 452 tons
of rolled metal in 1951.
The plant has been faced with the task not only of saving a maximum amount
of metal, but also of producing with a minimum of labor consumption. The forge
and press shops and foundries must reduce tolerarces on forgings and use hot
stamping and casting, i.e., reduce manual labor processes in the mechanical
treatment of parts. Some results havc been attained: manual labor required
for the production of one large-capacity freight car was lowered 7 percent,
and manual labor in the production of power units for oil-drilling installations
and oil psmps was reduced 26.3 percent.
Designers of the plant have contributed a great deal to the metal-saving
campaign. Suggestions made by designers included changes in the design of the
brakemen's platform in boxcars, changes in floor supports of railroad cars,
improvements in the design of the truck of freight cars, and changes in the
design of the brake shoe of freight cars. All these changes made it possible
to reauce the consumption of rolled metal and hot metal.
A group of designers headed by Vasil'yev improved the qualtty of power
units, while at the same time reducing the amount of pipes, rolled metal, and
electric wiring.
Designers play an impi.ant part in the efforts to save metal. They must
create designs requiring less weight, based on new tolerances and giving
additional savings of metal.
It is very important for the Ural Railroad Car Plant, as well as for many
other enterprises of the country, that the metallurgical industry should de-
liver rolled metal with minus tolerances. Merely by increasing the weight of
rolled shapes in excess of the theoretical weight, the Ural Railroad Car Plant
used more than 1,000 tons of metal above the norm.
The Chelyabinsk Metallurgical. Plant has agreed to deliver to the Ural
Railroad Car Plant blanks for car axles with miwas tolerances, not exceeding
the theoretical weight. However, for the time being this is the only plant
that is doing it. The Ural Railroad Car Plant should be in a poeition,to
receive all of its metal deliveries without excessive tolerances. Improved
storage conditions must be achieved, eliminating damage and loss of metal in
warehouses.
The metal-saving campaign has also been introduced in the plant's foundry
shops. As a result of casting parts with minimum tolerances, the plant was
able to save about 2,000 ton- of r.etal in one year. Scrap metal produced in
foundry shops is not shipped away, but resmelted at the plant. This helps not
only to reduce metal losses, but also to cut down intraplant transportation
costs.
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The results of the metal-saving campaign could have been more remarkable
if the plant had given more attention to the practical solution'of these actual
problem. On the basis of last year's experience, the plant is now reaching
higher indexes.
The Ural Railroad Car Plant has pledged, in 1952, to save 2,000 tons of
metal above the norm, and, in addition, to collect 2,000 tons of scrap metal
above plan on the plant and settlement area, thereby reducing shipments of
scrap metal from other places.
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