A M E T R O L O G I S T IS A H I G H L Y - Q U A L I F I E D

I N D U S T R I A L EXPERT

R. T. D z h u r a n o v i c h

UDC 389.007.2(474.3)

The metrologlcal service ,experts of the Latvian SSR enterprise are trained in Riga at the two-months' fulltime courses of the Educational and Advisory Center of the All-Union Institute of Standardization and Metrology (UKP VISM). It is known that the quality of metrological servicing is determined not only by the stocks of equipment and instruments, but also by the qualifications of experts. Therefore, in compiling the working plans of the Riga UKP VISM we always consult the Latvian republican administration of the USSR State Committee of Standards (Gosstandart). Thus, in selecting groups of students we find out at which enterprises what kind of organizational, technical, and production deficiencies were discovered in testing, so as to be able to eliminate them by training appropriate personnel for corresponding metrological agencies. According to the general opinion of administrative experts, only such an approach provides positive results. The range of problems soluble by means of various grpes of measurements is constantly expanding. This tendency faces us with new requirements for improving the educational plans and programs, and organizing training on a higher level with an extensive coverage of the metrological production servicing problems. Thus, during the three years of the ninth five-year plan we have trained experts in linear and angular, mechanical, thermotechnical, radiotechnical, and electrical measurements, and in 1974 we trained heads of metrological services and chief metrologists of ministries and departments. We shall briefly relate certain particular features in the training of the latter group of students. In the training course for the principal discipline of "Metrological inspection" we used creative metrological production games. Students were provided with tasks in six groups formed according to the principle of community of interests and departmental classification. The training process consisted of three interchanging forms: general training (collective discussions with the participation of all the students); groups training (solution of specific problems in a given group); and individual training (consultation, health-training, solution of posed problems). The first group dealt with the subject of "Uniform systems for registering measuring and testing equipment in the Latvian SSR" and developed the most convenient and universal source of information, namely, a card index with rider cards. In this ease information is retrieved visually without using any additional technical means (selectors, needles, etc.). The number of information-retrieval features coded on the rider cards depends on the rider color and the quantity of positions provided for its fixing. The utilization of this recording system provides a saving of 2500-3000 rubles for a stock of 4000-5000 measuring instruments and of 200,000 rubles for the entire republic. As a result of this the USSR Gosstandart Latvian administration was entrusted to draft a standard on the "Uniform system for registering measuring and testing equipment." The second group worked on the subject of "Organizing metrological production servicing of metal-working enterprises." The number of employees in the metrological service was then determined; a regulation on the metrological service in an enterprise and a draft factory standard on "Organization of metrological measuring-equipmerit inspection" were compiled; servicing instructions for metrologists of all grades were drafted; documents required for the functioning of the service were provided; and the economic advisability of developing further the metrological service as well as its efficiency for a stock of 10, 000-15,000 measuring instruments (about 55,00060,000 rubles) was determined. The results thus obtained were adopted in several enterprises of the Latvian SSR. Translated from Izmeriternaya Tekhnika, No. 2, pp. 12-13, February, 1975.

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The third group dealt with the subject of the "Technical and economic basis of a control and measuring instruments section" by determining the structure and volume of the entailed work, the organization of measuring instrument repairs, the size of the personnel and the occupied area, the required materiais and spare parts, and the necessary quantity of instruments and other equipment. The system thus developed was adopted for the Riga educational and production enterprise. The fourth group worked on the subject of "Preparing an enterprise for independent repairs and testing of manometers," which is topical for the metrological service administration since the enterprises urgently require facilities for testing these instruments. The materials compiled on this subject were recommended to chief metrologists and heads of metrological services as practical reference books. The fifth group was concerned with the subject of "Metrologicalprovisions for making vanilla ice-cream in chocolate icing." A draft technological scheme for producing ice-cream was then compiled and the required testing and measuring instruments allocated, a scheme for registering automatically the finished products and maintaining the required pasteurization temperature was prepared, a draft factory standard on "Technique for determining the fat content of chocolate ice-cream" was compiled, and a log-book for checking the ice-cream quality as well as a plan of metrological provisions for production was prepared. This scheme was adopted for application at the Riga dairy combine. The sixth group worked on the theme of an "Enterprise with a high metrological production efficiency," including the problems of practical importance in the struggle for high quality production. The draft factory standards on "Procedure for certifying measuring equipment" and on "Organizing and carrying out metrological examination of of scientific and technical documents" were approved by the teaching personnel and despatched to the trade union republican council for utilization in organizing competitions for the title of a "High Metrological Efficiency Production Enterprise." It will be seen that in the course of teaching we raised several problems which are of practical importance, and this leads to the conclusion that the students were highly interested in enhancing the role played by the metrological service of ministries, departments, and enterprises in the struggle for raising production quality. We were able to imbue students with a creative approach to the solution of specific metrological production servicing problems, teach them how to find new means for raising the quality of metrological servicing, and develop in them a collective approach to the solution of educational and methodic problems approaching those which exist in the actual production process. In conclusion let us note that this type of training is suitable for engineers and technicians who have a considerable working experience and a good theoretical education.

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