December 1, 2014. Second-year students of a local technical school were given a guided tour of Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation). According to the corporation’s press service, the students, whose current educational bent is in technical regulation and quality management, were shown the day-to-day performance of quality engineers and the core production departments.

‘The tour of the plant’s premises was designed in such a way as to let the young students see the making of a product first: they could see how a spare part is made with the help of a regular lathe and with the help of a metal-processing unit and hold a billet and then the finished product in their hands,’ the press service says.

During their visit to the pattern shop, the students were shown a three-axis-controlled machine that cuts both very basic and very sophisticatedly shaped coreboxes and template and master patterns out of wood and plastics.

‘The shop’s deputy head Dmitri Leshchev appealed to the audience’s childhood memories of playing with a bucket and spade. A corebox is filled with a mixture of sand and some additives in much the same way; it is then turned carefully upside down, and the ready shape is used for creating internal space inside a spare part. The audience were then explained how quality engineers test the part for parameter precision and compare it against the drawings. The possible quality engineers-to be took quite an interest in the spare parts, the measuring devices, and the drawings,’ the press service says.