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ТRP: Next-Generation Dining Cars p. 12 MAGAZINE FOR PARTNERS OF FOR PARTNERS MAGAZINE Bezhitskiy Steel Mill: At the Wellspring of a Steel River p. 4 FMEA: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis p. 16 EXPO 1520: TMX Draws Biggest Crowd p. 20 3 09/2013 № № 3 09/2013 MAGAZINE FOR PARTNERS № 3 09/2013 A Magazine for Transmashholding Partners Contents Editor-in-Chief company Konstantin Dorokhin [email protected] news Editorial Office address: 26 Butyrskiy Val St., coverBezhitskiy story bldg. 1, house 26, Moscow, 127055 Steel Mill Phone: (495) 660-89-50 Supplies 36% Published in collaboration of Russian Market with MediaLine Publishers www.medialine-pressa.ru and 18% of CIS Market Chief Executive Officer for Railcar Castings Larisa Rudakova Design Artist Ilya Malov person Editorial Director Interview Boris Voytsekhovskiy with Bezhitskiy Copy Editor Steel Mill CEO Elvira Khayrullova Valeriy Voronin Design and Typesetting Elena Popova Inna Titova Revision Proofreaders Galina Bondarenko Tver Railcarproducts Plant Larisa Nikolina Excels at Production Prepress Andrei Klochkov 20 of Dining Cars Maxim Kuperman Alexander Bondarenko Approved for printing on October 21, 2013 Printed by Viva-Star print shop Press run: 999 copies Transmashholdingexhibition Draws Biggest Crowd at EXPO 1520 in Scherbinka 20 milestone 28 Kolomna Locomotiveanniversary Plant Marks 150th Anniversary in September 28 1 № 3 09/2013 Let’sTver roll!Railcar Plant has handed over the first train of double- Cooperation deck railcars to Federal Passenger Company. The train includes 15 railcars: 12 compartment cars, train master’s car, a first-class sleeper car, and a dining car. New Maintenance Metrowagonmash plant has signed a contract with the Moscow ContractMetro for maintenance ofSigned 248 subway cars of the 81-760/761 Double-Deck Railcars Delivered series. Under the contract, Metrowagonmash guarantees the daily to Federal Passenger Company availability of 29 trains (232 railcars) in a fully operational state. The plant is contractually obligated to perform all scheduled preventative maintenance and repairs. Metrowagonmash has been entrusted with maintenance of the Novogireyevo electric train depot fleet that serves the Kalining- skaya line of the Moscow Metro. This is the first time that the Moscow Metro has signed a rolling stock maintenance contract that covers the entire lifecycle of railcars. As the contracted service company, Metrowagonmash will be responsible for the technical condition of railcars for 30 years. The lifecycle contract is expected to help the Moscow Metro to reduce direct costs of railcar maintenance and repairs, phase out non-core operations, and increase the technical availability ratio of its fleet. The subway railcar producer’s Toward the end of 2013, Tver Railcar Plant (TVZ) is expected constant involvement to assemble 50 double-deck railcars to be operated on in maintenance and Russian railways: three whole trains and replacement repairs will make it railcars. possible to effectively Double-deck railcars represent a completely new form of implement the rolling stock for Russia. They are meant to increase the modifications aimed at passenger flow and make railway transportation more cost improving overall effective. passenger comfort and All railcars are designed with the use of energy-saving safety. technologies. Centralized power supply reduces energy The Moscow Metro costs by 35 to 40%. has been using Series Double-deck railcars ensure significant maintenance cost 81-760/761 railcars savings compared to ordinary railcars. since 2012. Growth has been recorded in the key segments: Figures • Sales of mainline electric freight electric locomotives are Sales of Transmashholding up 28% (249 sections vs. 195 sections); 35% • Sales of mainline electric passenger locomotives are products and services are up up 24% (from 41 to 57 units) ; • The output of shunting locomotives has increased twofold (from 51 to 102 units); in the first half of 2013 year-on-year to exceed • Sales of mainline diesel freight locomotives are up 65% (from 68 to 112 sections); RUB 70 billion. • Sales of subway railcars are up 71% (from 137 to 234 railcars). 3 CoverBezhitskiy story Steel Mill takes pride in its glorious history and looks into the future with confidence. Since its inception in 1935 to this day, the plant has manufactured 6,354,000 tonnes of steel castings. It employs a staff of more than 4,000. ThE STEEL MILL SuPPLIES 36% Of ThE RuSSIAn MARKET AnD 18% Of ThE CIS MARKET fOR railcar castingS. Steel CaSting giant only open-heath furnace. This day is The enterprise expanded with each in the town of BezhitSa considered the birthday of Bezhitskiy passing year. In 1954, BSZ started Atezhitskiy Steelthe Mill was established Wellspring Steel Mill. Already in the latter half of manufacturingof a new axle Steel boxes for River in 1935 in the town of Bezhitsa the 1930s it evolved into one of the railcars, both passenger and freight. outside Bryansk. After World War II, largest and most advanced enterprises In the 1950s, it added a shop Bezhitsa became of the districts in in the Soviet heavy mechanical that manufactured heavy T-180 tractors. Bryansk as the city expanded. In those engineering industry. Eventually, Bryansk Automobile Plant Bdays, the steel mill’s chief mission was The mill experienced its fair share of was established on BSZ premises. to supply steel castings to railcar plants. hardships. During World War II, BSZ staff Powerful T-180 tractors performed Bezhitskiy Steel Mill, commonly known had to be evacuated to Nizhniy Tagil. Yet successfully in various climatic by its Russian abbreviation BSZ, had no it was here that BSZ employees joined environments: in the Far North and in equals not just in the USSR, but in all of Uralwagonzavod in manufacturing the the sweltering south. Suffice it to Europe. The mill boasted an advanced famous T-34 tanks, thereby speeding up mention as the Aswan Dam product range and equipment that was our WWII victory. On returning to construction project in Egypt and road unmatched at the time. Bryansk, the employees of Bezhitskiy construction in the Crimea. The first 20-tonne heat was produced Steel Mill rebuilt the destroyed plant and In the 1960s, the plant mastered the on September 28, 1935, in the mill’s cast the first post-war steel in 1946. production of valves for petroleum 4 № 3 09/2013 Steel production in an open-heath furnace BSZ CEO V. Voronin, Bryansk Region Governor N. Denin, Deputy Governor K. Simonov, and TMX CEO A. Andreyev (left to right) launch the new automatic molding line Andrei Andreyev addresses a meeting pipelines and nuclear power plants. In Bezhitskiy Steel Mill is a well-known Transmashholding CEO Andrei 1985, BSZ was awarded the Order of trademark. The plant has a quality Andreyev, Bryansk Region Governor At the Wellspring of a Steel Riverthe Red Banner of Labor in recognition management system compliant with Nikolai Denin, Russian Railways Vice of its achievements. GOST ISO 9001–2011. Management is President Anatoliy Meshcheryakov, developing and preparing for BSZ director Valeriy Voronin, and many like a Phoenix certification of a business management other guests of honor. from the aSheS system compliant with the requirements In his welcoming speech, Nikolai A third rebirth of the steel mill began in of the IRIS International Railway Industry Denin said: “The enterprise has seen 2002 when it joined Transmashholding Standard. In addition to improved some dramatic changes in recent (TMX). product quality, this will streamline the years. We have transformed and taken Today BSZ is one of the few plant’s processes and enable it to meet our grown to a new level. The retrofit enterprises manufacturing virtually the customer needs more fully. project is a significant step forward entire range of castings for freight cars. taken by Transmashholding”. Its products undergo constant design launCh of the automatiC The governor made a point of saying enhancements as the manufacturing molding line that Bezhitskiy Steel Mill ranks first technology and quality of steel castings A festive opening ceremony for the new among the region’s mechanical are improved. line in July 2013 was attended by engineering plants in terms of tax 5 Cover story Bogie bolster Production of rods using a Laempe rod machine Bogie frame revenue, accounting for almost 40% of recreation for the children of staff qualities in young employees, providing the total. members. orientation for young workers and TMX CEO Andrei Andreyev discussed For women with children under three retaining them, and getting young the project and thanked Governor Denin years of age, the work day has been people actively involved in cultural and for his assistance. reduced by 1 hour with pay. mass activities. BSZ values its staff as a key asset. Female workers with two children Youth Council representatives Management promotes social, art, and under 14 years of age have three extra contribute to social undertakings of the sports club activities and circles. vacation days with pay. plant, helping to shape the social A great deal has been done to offering for young people. Thanks to Better SoCial PaCkage improve amenities for workers. The the Youth Council, young plant workers and amenitieS plant has commissioned two new are able to participate in various Transmashholding and BSZ administrative buildings for major cultural, entertainment, and sporting management goes to great lengths to casting shops, a canteen seating 150 events. Young workers get actively improve the social package available to for workers of Casting Shop 1, a involved in activities organized by the staff. The collective bargaining canteen for workers of Casting Shops 2 Youth Committee at Bryansk City Hall, agreement for 2013–2015 further and 3, complete with state-of-the-art such as gala nights devoted to expands on certain vital points for cooking equipment and furniture. Fatherland Defender’s Day, employees, such as wage indexing, Repairs are underway at the Sports International Women’s Day, all sorts of clearly defined work and leisure time, Center, the campus for male workers, competitions, sporting events, and and occupational safety clauses.