OF LM68M: born-again p. 10 Service the year around p. 20 PARTNERS Hero electric locomotive of the mid XX century p. 24 FOR MAGAZINE 03/2015 № 1 The future is now p. 14 № 1 03/2015 MAGAZINE FOR PARTNERS № 1 03/2015 A Magazine for Transmashholding Partners Contents Editor-in-Chief company Konstantin Dorokhin 4 [email protected] news Editorial Office address: 26 Butyrskiy Val St., bldg. 1, Moscow, 127055 Konstantin Konstantinovich,interview Phone: (495) 660-89-50 Production Manager of Transmashholding, Published in collaboration speaks about company’s with MediaLine Publishers www.medialine-pressa.ru production development General Manager Larisa Rudakova Design Artist Ilya Malov innovations Editorial Director LM68M tramway: Dmitry Dorofeyev born-again 10 Copy Editor Irina Demina 10 Design and Typesetting Inna Titova, Maria Tyrylgina Alexei Sukonkin EG2TVcover electric story train: Proofreaders 14 Larisa Nikolina the future is now Alina Babich Galina Bondarenko Prepress Andrei Klochkov Anastasia Morozova Transmashholdingmanagement Approved for printing on 07.04.2015 service centers: Printed by Union Print 20 Press run: 999 copies. in step with the times 20 VL8 (N8): traditionshero electric locomotive of the 24 24 mid XX century 1 News Happy Journey! Production Tver Carriage Works (TVZ) has presented a production prototype of a modern baggage and mail car. Unique64–4505 car is a representative innovation of a new rolling stock type for TVZ. In terms of its specifications, it is superior to available market counterparts. Unlike its competitors, the new car has large capacity — 26.8 tons, which is 4.8 tons more compared to those in operation. Use of new baggage and mail cars will help carriers cut costs. They have a compartment with a service department for operating staff and a cargo compartment. Their service life is 40 years. This new development is fitted with a unique integrated monitoring system. It may control up to 10 baggage cars forming part of a train at once. In case of unauthorized access to any car, an alarm will be sent to the operating staff’s compartment. Car’s design enables operation of a loader with cargo with a total weight of 5 tons in the cargo compartment. This helps eliminate manual labor and decrease handling time. Special focus is made on work conditions for a service team. The compart - ment and service department meet the most up-to-date job engineering requirements. There is a cooking area with a stove, refrigerator and microwave. Car’s design speed is 160 km/h. “Over a few last years, the enterprise has created new products and mastered new markets, — Director General of TVZ JSC Andrey Solovey said during the presentation. Plant’s specialists have created double-deck cars with Fundamental sleepers and seats, designed and built the first makeup of a new-generation electric train, mastered production of Oktyabrsky Electric Car Repair Plant (OEVRZ, metro cars and built two low-floor tramways together with St. Petersburg) has successfully completed Transport Systems — one— and three-section. The new overhauls of two road-rail buses RA1 and RA2. baggage and mail car will also supplement the product approachThe road-rail buses manufactured in 2007 have range of our enterprise. I am sure that our customers will undergone the first stage of scheduled overhauls at appreciate it.” OEVRZ. Solutions used have enabled qualitative improvement of the car’s aesthetic perception, ergonomic and operational characteristics. Plant’s specialists have painted the body with advanced paint materials in corporate RZD colors. The undercarriage was renovated. Floor covering in the passenger compartment was renovated and modern comfortable seats were installed. Road-rail buses were fitted with new energy-efficient LED lamps. Thus, the plant has mastered a new activity — over - haul of road-rail buses. RA1 and RA2 that have under - gone repairs are planned to be operated at the October railway. 2 № 1 03/2015 Test New 2TE25KM freight main-line locomotive is on opera- collision and an air conditioning system. A self-contained tion run. heater ensures additional heating. New vibration cushioning The locomotive has been designed together with the materials are used to improve work conditions of the engine specialists of Transmashholding, Bryansk Machine Building crew. Ergonomics of the driver’s cab and diesel locomotive as PowerfulPlant and RZD. Compared to mass production and diesel locomo- cost-effectivea whole has been improved. tives, 2TE25KM enables an increase in the weight of goods One of the key benefits of the new diesel locomotive is its ease trains transported and reduction of operating costs. This is of maintenance thanks to accessibility and production effective- achieved thanks to an increased diesel capacity factor and ness of its major assemblies. This solution helps decrease this adhesive weight. The driver’s cab complies with all up-to-date diesel locomotive’s standby for maintenance and repair. safety and comfort requirements. There is a passive safety Diesel locomotive’s tests will end in April 2015, following system that protects the engine crew in case of an emergency which production of a development batch will begin. Co-operation Transmashholding has signed an According to the document signed, the Currently, exports account for some agreement for co-operation on Ministry of Economic Development has 10% of Transmashholding’s sales. Not foreign markets with the Ministry of expressed its intent to provide the only the rolling stock, but also diesel JoiningEconomic Development. forcesholding with the broadest consulting, engines and a broad range of spare The document has been signed by information and organizational support, parts are manufactured for foreign Minister of Economic Development assist in the establishment and consumers. Transport machine building Aleksey Ulykaev and President of development of foreign economic products are classified as high-tech Transmashholding Andrey Bokarev. relations. export. 3 Interview 4 № 1 03/2015 Konstantin Konstantinovich: “Implementation of centralized manufacture of key components will bring enormous savings to KONSTANTINour company” KONSTANTINOVICH, PRODUCTION MANAGER OF TRANSMASHHOLDING, SPOKE ABOUT PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT IN THE CURRENT SITUATION IN AN INTERVIEW TO OUR MAGAZINE. onstantin Frantsevich, can a decrease in the cost of the output, developers and manufacturers of you tell us about the way reports, schedules of technological advanced processing equipment, work of the production discipline monitoring and equipment accessories and tools to attend these manager is arranged at relevant inspection for process accuracy. meetings. They share their opinions and divisions of enterprises? We process and follow them up. experience. –K— Transmashholding has a technical Besides, we conduct brief inspections for department that comprises a production compliance with technological discipline — What are the general principles that process technology administration and together with plants’ specialists. Technical Transmashholding follows in its production system reforming and department’s specialists together with relations with vendors? Where is the production support administration. The customer’s representatives take part in focus in case of comparable technical department exercises control over the technical audits of the enterprises of capabilities of equipment? achievement of enterprise’s targets and CJSC Transmashholding Group. — Holding’s enterprises elaborate their follow-up. Another important task of the technical technical retooling plans, under which At plants, production managers’ department is to redistribute production each plant files requisitions for certain offices form a part of the CTO’s or chief load between enterprises as required. equipment. We review the plan prepared engineer’s office. Much attention is given to interaction by the plant and verify its feasibility. It is Production managers’ offices at between specialists of all levels. essential that these plans are made from enterprises develop new product We regularly conduct meetings of the the long-term perspective so that manufacture processes, update processes scientific and technical council of purchase of a machine is considered in for serial production, provide the technical production managers, chief welders and the context of building a future production department with plans of organizational chief metal-makers. We invite specialists chain. Our task is to choose the best and technical activities targeted at of leading scientific organizations, equipment option. For example, the plant 5 in Kolomna needed a machine to process of unified key component manufacture Interviewa key part — block cylinder. This centers at enterprises. Why has this operation requires enhanced processing step become necessary? accuracy, so we decided to purchase — Our holding was made of independent a machining center by one of the world’s plants that were often subordinate to leading manufacturers — WALDRICH OUR TASK IS TO SELECT different ministries. Each plant had its own COBURG. school of designers, engineers and Before its acquisition, we visited and production workers. This is why when we audited three enterprises specializing in THE BEST EQUIPMENT started to combine enterprises, we came the manufacture of the similar equipment. across different engineering approaches. Eventually, we opted for the manufacturer For example, without centralized with the best offering in terms of value for federal program