S C I E N T I F I C LABOR O R G A N I Z A T I O N (SLO) PERFECTS

THE F A C T O R Y M E T R O L O G I C A L SERVICE

V. I . N o v i k o v a a n d V. I . P e r e z h o g i n UDC 658.387:389.1~008.01

A plan of the measures developed by the SLO section of the "Otgsteklo" industrial-engineering combine for perfecting the system to administer the factory metrological service was approved in May 1973 at the M. Gor'kii Borsk Glass Factory. The need to solve this question originated because the quantity of control and measurement instruments and the automation facilities increased 50% as compared with 1973 as the volume of production and the growth in the technical equipment in the factory expanded.

The plan was developed in two stages:

1. A detailed study of existing organization and administration systems, planning, inventory, checking, and repair of the measuring equipment by means of observations, direct participation, and interrogation of workers as- sociated with the utilization, repair, and checking of the measuring equipment.

2. An analysis of the materials, and a scientific foundation for the selection and development of measures to perfect the system of administering the metrological service on their basis.

The peculiarity of the administrative labor, which consists of processing and analyzing the documentary infor- mation, was first determined: periodic check schedules (1700 pp.); the inventory log of the arrival of the instruments (400 pp.); the log of when the instruments went to repair (400 pp.), inventory registers of the measuring equipment in the factory subdivisions (3900 pp.); inventory card file of instrument movement (800 pieces). This documenta- tion is not systematic, multiform, and awkward in form, duplicates the content and above all results in upsetting the checking times and does not reflect the exact presence of measuring equipment in the production subdivisions.

The "Orgsteklo" industrial engineering combine should have given a scientific foundation to the selection and development of the documentation system, which would be based on a logical system of informational inter- relations between all the structural subsections of the administrative apparatus and the administered objects.

On the basis of the observation, investigation, computation, and substantiation materials, measures were developed on the introduction of a card catalog of continuously operative planning and accounting of the checking repair, and movement of the measuring equipment in the administration of the metrological service of the combine.

The card index is inserted on all kinds of instruments and is constructed taking account of separation according to plant, group of instruments, and is divided into compartments governing the time (year, month) of the check and other accounting data.

Five card indices are provisionally set up to assure continuously operative accounting. The first, the "central," file is placed in the receiving and delivery office for the intruments and is for obtaining complete information about the measuring equipment in the industrial subsections; the second, "for instruments inrepair and inspection," is in the instrument receiving and delivery office to obtain information about the measuring equipment during repair and inspection; the third, the "exchange fund" is also in the instrument receiving and delivery office and is to ac- count for the instrument exchange fund; the fourth, the "standard instruments," is in the chief metrolog's section, and is for obtaining information about the interdepartmental and government inspection times; the fifth, the "work- ing card index" is in the industrial subsections and is for obtaining information about the instruments being utilized.

Translated from Izmeritel 'naya Tekhnika, No. 8, p. 19, August, 1974.

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There are registration forms in all the card indexes, which the inspectors of the measuring instruments of the chief metrolog's section fill out in two copies. One copy is the control, by which continuous accounting is realized. It is in the instrument receiving and delivery office in the "central ' , "for instruments in repair and in- spection," "for the exchange fund" card indexes. The second copy of the registration is the working copy and is kept permanently with the instrument in the plant, at repair, inspection, and the exchange fund, i.e., goes with the instrument everywhere.

For rapid orientation of the card indexes, they are made from thin red cardstock for instruments subject to government inspection, from thin white cardstock for instruments subject to departmental inspection, and from thin gray cardstock for the working card file. The lifetime of complete utilization of one card index is seven-ten years.

The annual office processing of the documents is reduced more than 100 fold by the introduction of the card indexes.

The centralized forced delivery of the measuring equipment to the instrmnent receiving and delivery office and to the factory subdivisions is needed in order to guarantee the time of instrument inspection and to cut down the time-consuming nature of their transportation.

The instruments for delivery to the factory subdivision are combined into a special package together with the card indexes by the entrance inspector. The leader-expediter makes up the load and delivers the instruments and card indexes to the consumer.

The mentioned measures developed and used by the factory for introduction and also the statements, instruc- tions on introduction of the card indexes and the centralized-forced exchange assure conservation of GOST 8.002-71 and the statements about the factory metrological service set the administration of the metrological service into a strict system.

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