On the Strength of Science and Technology

The Taean Heavy Machine Complex is called the nation’s mainstay factory in manufacturing generating equipment and other ordered facilities.

Over the past one year the workers of the complex have produced many generating facilities to make a breakthrough in the projects to build a number of power stations down the Chongchon River and the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station.

Last year when the complex was given the task to produce the generating equipment for the power stations on the Chongchon River, General Manager Yang Sung Ho fell into deep thought. If they worked with usual preparedness and determination, they could never finish the task in time. Because the generating facilities for low head were much bigger and heavier than other facilities they had already made. If the capacities of the mechanical equipment of the complex were calculated in the technical and engineering terms, it would take them more than five years to finish the task. However, the general manager knew that they had to do it within one year, not five years.

He and other managers of the complex had serious discussions with technicians and workers. In this course, they realized that it was very important to reduce as much as possible the processing time of such big parts as fixed bucket. The technicians and workers pooled their wisdom and finally invented original methods to design, manufacture and install the large auxiliary face plates on middle-sized turning lathes and increase the length of the processing axis. So the turning lathes could process large workpieces which had been produced by large-sized turning lathes.

The workers in the field of the material supply were also in high spirit. At the steel casting workshop, the casting that had been done once in several days was done everyday. The workers carried out three years’ work in a few months. They brought the sizes of thousands of guide bucket axes and bushing materials close to the final measurements, and this reduced the processing time by more than half.

Attaching importance to science and technology made it possible to work such miracles.

At present many people visit the complex to learn their experience.

Yang Sung Ho says proudly, “This time we realized that the creativity of the working people with sci-tech attainments has no limit.”

The workers of this powerful complex are now making innovation after innovation in the production of generating equipment.