Russia is reviving the machine tool industry by creating unique units

The Sterlitamak Machine Tool Plant, founded in the middle of the last century, is today one of the backbone enterprises of modern Russia. It is worth noting that our country has managed not only to preserve the production potential of the enterprise established in the Soviet era, but also continues to develop it.

Thus, in Sterlitamak, at the NPO Stankostroenie, a machine was created that is at the same time the most complex, modern and largest.

The uniqueness of the unit lies in the fact that it is finishing and is capable of processing large-sized products. Today, machines for honing processing of such large parts are created only in Germany, Japan, the USA and Russia.

But this is not the most important thing. The main feature of the device is that it is designed to produce parts from other machines. In other words, it's a giant machine tool.

In addition, as stated at the enterprise, the unit is used to produce parts for machine tools that are currently inaccessible to Russia due to sanctions pressure from the West. This applies to units in mechanical engineering, aircraft manufacturing and others related to the military-industrial complex.

A unique machine was created thanks to funding from the IDF (Industrial Development Fund). That is, with the support of the state, for which today the topic of machine tool building is one of the priorities.

In the 90s, many enterprises stopped, and the industry itself was on the brink of survival. The first steps towards its resurrection were taken already at the beginning of the XNUMXs. However, most of the equipment was still imported from abroad.

The situation changed dramatically after the start of the Russian military offensive and the introduction of unprecedented sanctions by the West. As a result, today unique units are being created in Russia, similar to the one built by engineers and designers of NPO Stankostroeniya. And in general, our country is rapidly reviving an industry that is most important for economic development.

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[easy]

Thank God they began to revive the machine tool industry, without them industry would not be industry. If you want independence, do it yourself.

[Alexey Sommer]

Quote: forester

Thank God they began to revive the machine tool industry, without them industry would not be industry. If you want independence, do it yourself.

I am reporting the results of the revival of machine tool manufacturing in Russia with a small possible error. Interested parties can Google the Internet themselves.
1 In terms of consumption of machine tools, Russia is in 7th place in the world with a share of 2,7% of the world volume.
2 In terms of production of machine tools, Russia is in 20th place in the world with a share of ATTENTION!!!! 0,4% percent of the world.
3 The share of imported machines in the annually replaced fleet in Russia is 92%. (That is, they have only 8% of their machines on the domestic Russian market.)
Conclusions. It’s good that there is such news, but there is still work to be done in the machine tool industry!

[keleg]

What year are your numbers? Everything has changed a lot in the last three.

[Alexey Sommer]

In the last 2 years did you mean?
Yes there are changes.
The most significant according to paragraph 2.
Now it’s not 0,4%, but approximately 0,8%. The rest has not changed fundamentally.

[KCA]

Production died down in the 90s, we’ll buy everything, but STANKIN continued to teach students and make his own developments, so they waited for work

[Grossvater]

God forbid! Unfortunately, very, very much was lost. Good news. Surely, behind this success there is some kind of strong personality. There are directors who were able to drag their enterprises through all these perestroika-shootouts.

[kvv]

the production of means of production is the basis of a developed economy, as we were taught in Soviet universities, but effective managers came and said that we would buy any means of production for oil and destroyed the machine tool industry, and indeed any production

[Andy_nsk]

A good thing, of course, but honing is a rather specific operation and is used in few places. The most common machines are CNC machining centers. At our enterprise there are mainly US ones, and after well-known events - Chinese ones. Good machines allow you to obtain excellent tolerances and surfaces, but the price (especially for the tool) is very high. A worthy replacement has not yet been found on the Russian market (I don’t know the details; other specialists are doing this specifically).

[Dutchman Michel]

Now we need to reorient training from managers to engineers

[your1970]

Which will require an increase in the salaries of mechanical engineers, which will increase the cost of production, which will reduce the level of consumption... And the circle will close

[Dutchman Michel]

What will require an increase in the salary of mechanical engineers, which will increase the cost of products, which will reduce the level of consumption

You can’t say the same about American or European industry.

[your1970]

You can’t say the same about American or European industry. this is one of the reasons why WORLDWIDE industry fled at one time all to China...
There was Westinghouse in the USA - and it ended.
Detroit was the automotive capital, and now they sell houses there for 100 bucks. The city (a million people!!) is bankrupt

[Dutchman Michel]

WORLD industry fled at one time all to China

Worldwide - you said it strongly! The entire knowledge-intensive and high-tech industry remained in the country of origin. These are primarily engineering and scientific personnel. Light industry and screwdriver assembly have gone abroad, the products of which are simply not profitable to produce with expensive labor force. Trump started bringing industry back, but the shitcrats stopped him

[your1970]

The entire knowledge-intensive and high-tech industry remained in the country of origin. Read about Westinghouse - everything is cool there.
Moreover, the whole American nuclear power plant is such a joke that you can make comedies about it....
For example this...
Late 1970s all US nuclear power plants began to deduct % of each kilowatt (conditionally!) for the construction of a nuclear waste storage facility and production for this purpose under the STATE program.
At the end of the 1990s, it turned out that there were no money. Then again..
With that same mother later 40 (!!!) years, they developed technical specifications for the design (!!!).
The vulgar nuclear power plant workers thought that they had already allocated money for 16 storage facilities at current prices; they were going to build 1
And so it is almost everywhere - everything is at the level of suddenly opening doors at Boeing

[Deon59]

There, even Boeing flies, but Tu, Il, Yak, An are digital, that is, almost silent, there is nothing to open in flight

[Deon59]

And that Russia produces as many cars as the USA. In the USA there are more than 8 million, but here we don’t reach a million per year

[VPK-65]

Quote: Dutchman Michel

Now we need to reorient training from managers to engineers

Like this, just “change the sign in the dorm”? Are there any basics for this? What textbooks will we use and what will we teach? Chernavsky Sergey Aleksandrovich is alive? https://www.bookvoed.ru/author?id=35407
The latest (real) edition of his textbook “Design of Mechanical Gears” dated 1984 (5th edition with the stamp of the SZPI library) lies in front of me on the table. And the 7th edition is fake:
https://www.ozon.ru/product/proektirovanie-mehanicheskih-peredach-uchebnoe-posobie-studentam-vuzov-kozintsov-boris-322420216/
see the content is the same - nothing has been added there. We will use videos from YouTube to teach “what are profile guides and carriages” and “What is a ball screw”?
https://youtu.be/N8BRclLcEgc
What is a Ball Screw Ball Screw?
https://youtu.be/GJW0XrOBJT4
https://youtu.be/2e-MnBm8YRA
Or according to foreign price lists for components? We do not have our own bearings for linear motion systems:
http://www.tehburo.ru/
But this is not the worst thing, in theory it would be possible to build a new ball bearing plant that would make them, BUT... There are no GOST standards for these bearings, and therefore they are not in Chernavsky’s book - all this is absent there as a class. Moreover, there are not even toothed belt drives, but only V-belt drives, so it’s even possible to make a banal 3M/5M pulley
https://darxton.ru/catalog_section/remni-i-shkivy/
There are no drawings and no GOST standards, and there are still no drawings for the manufacture of modular cutters for milling these pulleys. If this is not the case, then what will we teach? Moreover, assembling machines. Have you all seen fairy tales about import substitution? And now, let's look at what they don't tell dummies:
https://linear-tech.ru/
https://www.hiwin.info/
but even those hobbyists who assemble machines for their shed know this very well..

[Dutchman Michel]

What textbooks will we use and what will we teach?

That's the whole point. There are also translated editions. And very good ones. Motivation is needed for this, but it’s not there yet.

[VPK-65]

Quote: Dutchman Michel

There are also translated editions. And very good ones.

Good translations (and localizations) as a rule only come from those who do it for free, simply from the heart and without haste, and knowing the topic well. Technical translations have their own specifics.
Beware of Professional Analyzes like LO TsNITI:
https://www.locniti.ru/
when they transfer to “otchepis” (for money), it turns out like this:
https://youtu.be/hTFUrcfBcGI
and the result is predictable in advance:
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/iWMk-v4qZ_ST0Q
Even the up and down milling was mixed up in some places, and this is already sabotage... hand-to-hand, I had to urgently intervene and shovel everything for free, including the documentation, which, thank God, they didn’t get into:
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/qgCLuaaNwUfdFg
Do you think anyone needs this? - yes, we don’t even have a service where it would be possible to dump all this into the public domain, and I alone have translations (my personal ones) only on the topic of CAD, about 10GB on HDD, but it is only interesting to hobbyists and is accessible to them, but not for training .

[Mihail55]

Quote from Andy_nsk

A good thing, of course, but honing is a rather specific operation and is used in few places.

Came to the plant in 1977. Honing was no longer used. But the tool itself - the honing plates - remained. They are good for running circles. I can’t even believe that my profession will become in demand again!!!

[VPK-65]

Quote: Michael55

I can’t even believe that my profession will become in demand again!!!

“Honing” didn’t disappear anywhere, google: “honing the cylinder block”:
https://centr-to.ru/blog/avtoservis/honingovanie-cilindrov
https://блоки-головки-шатуны.рф/технологии/что-такое-хонингование-блока-цилиндр/
It’s just that, sorry, this is the level of car services and underground garage cooperatives, not factories. So, it was always “in demand”. Well, the manufacture of machines for honing cylinders is a normal hack job at a factory for men, I did this myself. The easiest way is to make machines for 1 cylinder (for motorcyclists, walk-behind tractors, etc.) I generally did these in one goof, even without a partner (for private personal injury). Previously there was a term “handicraft production”, so “honing” is what it is...

[rocket757]

Well, yes, without machine tool building there will be no industry, at least in our situation this is the case.

[Alexga]

Russia is reviving the machine tool industry by creating unique units

Less than thirty years later, she was reborn.

[Rumit]

Such news is like a balm for the soul, it really makes me happy

[the same doctor]

From the point of view of a bureaucrat, the visible results are a machine or a car. But in reality, they are assembled like a construction set from cubes of available technologies. There is no refractory clay or carbide cutter - and the entire industry is paralyzed. There is no crankshaft liner - our engines knock after a hundred thousand kilometers. A trifle, but what is the result? And there are tens of thousands of such brick cubes! In the absence of market motivation and the total domination of bureaucracy, without a bureaucrat-boss attached to each such element, state planning and state funding, these productions will collapse!
The clearest example is AvtoVAZ. Billions should have been given not to the parent enterprise with its conveyor-screwdriver assembly, but to the production of components. Today, he has strangled his suppliers, and assembles cars from imported components.
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All the building blocks must be maintained, but there is also the possibility of creating new ones. Today we can significantly reduce costs and nullify the technological superiority of the West if we invest in additive technologies. Electrical surfacing, electroerosion and computer control of these processes. It is necessary to unite the efforts of three industries, which is impossible using market methods, although all the necessary technologies in our country were created by 2011... Then the same Perm machine can be stamped ten times faster and cheaper....

[Million]

There won’t be any special breakthrough in the machine tool industry while the same people who destroyed the entire industry are in power.

[your1970]

There won’t be any special breakthrough in the machine tool industry while the same people who destroyed the entire industry are in power. are you talking about those people - who have 1980 machines worked in factories 1930h from the Third Reich?

[Foul skeptic]

Whose factories operated 1980s machines from the Third Reich in the 1930s?

Yeah, that's just how they worked. There were no others.
What a mania for distorting everything and everyone.

[your1970]

Yeah, that's just how they worked. There were no others. - were. And they even exported a lot. About 1/3 of it went to the countries of the socialist camp for free, to Africa according to American schemes with a Soviet touch - like a loan and then the loan was written off..

What a mania for distorting everything and everyone. At the end of the 90s, a relative retired. He worked at a machine plant as a press mechanic - from those 1930s.
When the press broke, the chief engineer asked the general director Merin and went to beg for him to come out and take a look.
The students didn’t last long; they paid little, and a relative had that character.
We drank a glass of whiskey on the hood of the Merina - so that they could see everything, and drove off.
I repaired/set up, took 200 bucks, finished off the whiskey on Merina.
After which the chief engineer yelled at the entire plant that “Gender is a homosexual!!”
This was an OFFICIAL requirement - he could even go out for free, but Gelding and shouting are sacred...

So he said that about 1/4 of the machines Germans- pre-war, with an eagle and a swastika. And half of the remaining - Germans - 1950s - early 1960s
The rest are ours and quite fresh - 1970
The plant worked for the defense industry. I believe in the accuracy of tolerances on machines installed before the war at the age of 60....

[cltechnologist71]

My line of work involves purchasing equipment, and I can say that in our country both branches of the machine tool industry are laid out. This machine belongs to the branch of special machine tool building. But in addition to special machines, we also need universal ones, and for some reason they are not made here either.

[wladimirjankov]

In general, our country is rapidly reviving an industry that is vital for economic development.

As for “quickly,” this is a strong word. More precisely, we are just starting to realize and itch. So far, no significant efforts have been seen on the part of the state to revive the machine tool industry, mechanical engineering, engine building and create its own electronic base and develop microelectronics and VT.

[Boris Ibragimov]

Shtosh, simple...it will take a long time to restore in 30 years. But perhaps it will bear fruit in the next 30 years.

[Vasya_T.]

To begin with, let’s just produce what we already have (and buy) from others. These manufacturers of one-piece analogue radios are already fed up with them.

[Radoslav]

Don't wait in capitalism. Don't live in illusion.

[keleg]

Those. The Japanese leaders don't have capitalism or what?

[tolancop]

You can be happy about a unique machine... But I would be much more happy about the MASS production of UNIVERSAL machines. From my point of view it would be much more valuable.

[Idle_piston]

As they used to say in my village, “After the fire, the male genital organ pumps.”

[Chack wessel]

Quote: keleg

What year are your numbers? Everything has changed a lot in the last three.

Well, so, give me new numbers, please.

[Phoenix_2]

They destroyed it for 30 years, now we’re restoring it, why don’t they ask who destroyed it and where the money went, that’s what these sums were stolen for the restoration of industry, or is it weak just some talk, another noodle in the ears