Centralized equipment overhaul at man-made fibre establishments

Abstract

An analysis of the overhaul services of man-made fibre plants showed that the maintenance staff was engaged on actual repair work for only half their working time; equipment maintenance was on a low level, the acquisition, storage and consumption of spare parts were not controlled properly and reconditioning work on components was badly timed. The result, for example at the Kalinin, Klin, Barnaul and Balakov Combines, was that the annual outlay on machine components and parts amounted to 7 - 10% on the cost of the installed equipment, i.e. considerably in excess of the permitted norms. In 1967 - 1968 the overhaul services were improved by transferring the teams responsible for the general and intermediate overhaul of production equipment from the staff of the production sections to that of the machine shops of the CMD. Specializing sections and teams were organized for the overhaul of the different kinds of production units, equipment and components. The centralization of the general and intermediate overhaul work made it possible to improve the work organization, increase labour productivity and reduce the number of workers concerned. At the Balakov Combine, for example, a total 190 persons were released for other work, at the Kamensk fibre plant 26, at the Svetlogorsk plant 42, etc. But even after these measures had been introduced over 50% of the overhaul workers still formed part of the staff of the individual production sections. Practical experience has shown that in the case of centralized overhaul services the productivity of labour and the organization and economics of the work involved are on a higher level when the various types of production equipment are overhauled by specializing teams from the machine shops of the CMD because the work, cost accounting and outlays are planned centrally. Overhaul work is now fully centralized at the Kaunas and Volzhsk fibre plants and partly centralized at the Kursk, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul Ryazan and Kalinin Combines. In the Capron division of the Kiev Combine /I/ and at the Kamensk Combine all overhaul and maintenance work has been centralized and all maintenance workers and mechanics have been transferred to the staff of the CMD work shops. One of the principal purposes of centralizing the overhaul and maintenance services is to improve job quality and thus the technical condition of the equipment and at the same time to increase operating periods between overhauls and reduce downtime. It has been the experience of fibre establishments with centralized overhaul services that overhaul by CMD staff and maintenance by the production section concerned represents the best arrangement. At a conference of chief mechanics and power supply engineers in Cherkassy in November 1970 it was confirmed that overhaul services must be better organized and a recommendation was put forward that they should form part of the CMD. The centralization of these services calls for much preparatory work.