Proletarian factory. Machine-building enterprise in St. Petersburg

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Proletarsky Zavod (OJSC, St. Petersburg) is one of the pioneers of Russian mechanical engineering. The company, today part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, was founded in 1826. For the last half century, it has been specializing in the production of ship equipment, and also produces equipment for the energy industry. The company is constantly improving the range of manufactured products supplied to both domestic and foreign markets.

Good story

From the first days of work, the Proletarian Plant (formerly the Alexander Iron Foundry) fulfilled strategic state orders and manufactured equipment for the Russian industry. Since 1826, complex engineering structures have been produced here, the first domestic steam ships and locomotives have been built. In the Great Patriotic War, the enterprise completely switched to the manufacture and repair of military products:

• armored trains and armored vehicles;
• parts for tanks, anti-aircraft guns;
• mines, ammo.

Repurposing

13.09.1963 a fateful decree was issuedThe Council of Ministers of the USSR: the plant was redesigned - it began to produce ship engineering products. In those days, the Soviet fleet conquered the ocean expanses. Warships and civilian ships needed fundamentally new machines and mechanisms.

To provide state shipbuilding programs with equipment, the Proletarian Plant began to work as part of the Ministry of the Shipbuilding Industry. A specialized design bureau was created at the enterprise - after a year and a half, the factory workers began the production of ship equipment. We started with demonstration models of lifting and lowering devices, deck cranes, steering machines. Later, they mastered the production of controllable pitch propellers, hydraulic machines, manipulators for deep-sea vehicles, complexes for transferring liquid and dry cargo on the move at sea between ships.

Today

JSC Proletarsky Zavod is a strategic enterprise. The company produces a wide range of the most sophisticated marine equipment, including unique products that are used on most Russian and a number of foreign ships. Its products secure large orders for the Navy and are exported under the patronage of Rosoboronexport.

In dialogue with design bureaus and shipyards, the plant aims to create a modern competitive product that is in demand primarily on the domestic market.

Proletarian Factory Reviews

According to the opinions of economic partners and customers, in many respects the unique products of the enterprise correspond to the declaredperformance, reliability and quality. The specialists of the enterprise have received state and departmental awards many times. Modern management principles are applied here, and technological processes are being systematically modernized.

The result is logical: the Proletarian Plant creates competitive products and participates in the implementation of Russian state programs, for example, in the target Federal program "Development of marine civil engineering" for the period 2009-2016 and in the State armament program 2011-2020.

Modern developments

One of the largest research and production centers of the country is the Northern capital - the city of St. Petersburg. The Proletarian Plant makes an important contribution to the development of the region. A number of advantages allow an enterprise to remain in demand on the market. This is the presence of a research, experimental and high-tech production base, the provision of a range of services and, of course, a focus on modernizing production and introducing technologies that meet the requirements of the times.

Proletarsky Zavod JSC manufactures the most complex marine equipment. These are electro-hydraulic deck and bridge electric cranes, stabilizers, a wide range of special devices. They are installed on supertankers, submarine nuclear missile carriers, aircraft-carrying cruisers, civil and transport ships.

In recent years, as part of export deliveries, sets of arresters foraircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" of the Indian Navy, the re-equipment of which was carried out at "Sevmash". This unique product is produced in Russia only at the Proletarian Plant.

Technical re-equipment

Increasing labor productivity is the top priority for the administration. An equally important goal is to provide customers, among which the Russian Navy is the leading one, with products in strict accordance with contractual requirements.

Provision of the plant with modern machining centers continues, issues of equipping workplaces with the necessary imported cutting tools and equipment are being resolved. In addition to methodical technical re-equipment and modernization, the Proletarsky Zavod invests in the development of an integrated information system and the improvement of the electronic document management system.

In order to maximize the concentration of types of production and improve management efficiency, the restructuring of the production service was successfully carried out. The qualifications of employees are being improved, the systems of personnel motivation are being improved, the practice of interaction with specialized universities to attract young specialists and workers has expanded. Significant budgetary funds have been allocated for the technical re-equipment and re-equipment of the production of ship engineering equipment.

Export

Products of ship and power engineering produced by this plant have always had a stable demand abroad. Deck cranes, ship power equipment, devicescargo transfers, manufactured and delivered by the plant in the last century, are successfully operated on many ships, including foreign ones.

2013 was an important year for the factory workers - the year of completion of the fulfillment of obligations for the installation of two sets of brake machines delivered to India. The plans of the Proletarian Plant, thanks to the fulfilled contract, assume similar profitable orders in the future. Now the production of new modifications of gas turbine units, which are in demand by foreign partners, is being mastered. A contract has been signed and is being implemented for the supply in 2014-2017 of 16 sets of GTG-1250-2E gas turbine generators for four Project 15B ships of the Indian Navy.

The Proletarian Plant confirms by deed its reliability and ability to develop new directions in the field of shipbuilding.