Metrology and machine (1989)

Turning work.

A worker works on a lathe.

Samples of measuring instruments.

A turner checks the accuracy of a part on special equipment.

Monument to Peter I in Leningrad.

View of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad.

Decree of Peter I "On the Casting of Cannons and Their Caliber".

Weapons of the Time of Peter I. During the time of Peter I, Russia produced many guns, all of whose parts were interchangeable.

Wax figure of Peter I in the Hermitage.

Portrait of Russian mechanic Andrei Nartov.

Nartov invented a mechanical support for a copying lathe, which moved independently along the workpiece using a toothed wheel and a rack.

Standards of units of measurement corresponding to the metrological convention of 1875. A tram travels along a street in Leningrad.

Alternating photographs with various equipment, mechanisms, and devices.

A KAMAZ truck leaves the assembly line.

KAMAZ vehicle assembly line.

Bearing samples.

The accuracy of a ball bearing must not be less than 1-2 micrometers.

There are about 10,000 bearings mounted in an airplane.

Airplane takeoff.

A scrap metal collection point where damaged equipment is brought.

All-Union Research Institute of Metrological Service (VNIIMS).

The institute's metrologists have created a unified system for measuring roundness.

State special standard of deviation from roundness.

Improving the existing standard in order to create a multifunctional standard on its basis.

The creation of such a standard will solve the problem of state testing, certification and verification of measuring systems that implement the radius measurement method not only in the polar coordinate system, but also in the cylindrical one.

Computer display with measurement data.

The set of measures of deviation from roundness is supplemented by exemplary measures of profile straightness, shape deviation and location of cylindrical and flat surfaces.

Exemplary measures are presented.

Automatic line at the plant.

Giant productions do not have the necessary flexibility.

Their readjustment is expensive and labor-intensive.

That is why the same obsolete models of cars have been coming off the KAMAZ conveyor for 15 years.

The KAMAZ conveyor.

Scientist V.A. Chudov tells us about it.

We are talking about measuring heads for automated lines and CNC machines.

Designers of NPO ENIMS have created a number of control and diagnostic stations for automated testing of CNC machine tools for positioning accuracy.

A sample is demonstrated.

The stations provide input of received data into the built-in computer, processing of this data and output of results to the printer.

The accuracy of operation of machines that have undergone such diagnostics increases tenfold.

Cars on the city street.

The car is equipped with a number of diagnostic tools.

Dashboard.

Belarusian Polytechnic Institute.

The institute has developed a color video control flaw detector.

It is intended for non-destructive testing of materials and products.

By changing the tone on the monitor screen, one can immediately judge the parameters of the model being tested.

Doctors during an operation.

Artificial heart valve.

VNIIMS has created and is improving the USSR roughness standard.

With the help of the standard unit, one can find out the class of cleanliness of the valve surface, the average step of roughness at the vertices, the average step of roughness in relation to the midline and other important characteristics. S.I. Moskvin tells the story.

It represents a scanning tunneling microscope developed at VNIIM. Nano measurements with such a microscope are in demand in electronics and, in the future, in mechanical engineering.

Standard of a meter.

A dividing machine on which scales for high-precision machines are made.

The use of high-precision scales made it possible to create a fleet of precision metalworking machines in the country.

Samples of measuring instruments.

Based on modern achievements in quantum electronics, VNIIM scientists have achieved a meter reproduction accuracy one hundred times higher than that of the previous model.

Photos of various trucks.

A new MAZ truck packed with electronics.

VNIIM scientist S.V. Koparev tells the story.

The scientist talks about electromagnetic compatibility.

Scrap metal.

Testing the strength of a truck cabin.

A scientist studies body deformations.

Testing a truck while driving.

Measurement equipment.

Testing a machine at a testing ground.

Children's activities in a kindergarten on training machines that test their knowledge.

A press at a metalworking enterprise.