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ComTransMotor works with its name born of mythsIn Slavic mythology YAROVIT was a Baltic Slavs’ god. One of the ancient sources quotes the pagan priest YAROVIT who boasts of being master of greenery and fruit of the earth. In a word, a serious character. The kind behind who there is usually a long tail of myth and legend. That was exactly the case with YAROVIT brand trucks that first emerged on automotive press pages and then “alive” at a number of motor shows. Inauguration of “YAROVIT Motors” truck factory in Saint Petersburg became a logical continuation of this epic, the event where new details were disclosed regarding the emergence of Russia’s new truck brand.
 
PRODUCTION SITE Setting up the production facilities of PC “YAROVIT Motors” commenced in 2003 when a production shop building was purchased from Leningrad Metal Works (LMZ). The three-span ferroconcrete constructions shop erected in 1964 was not in good shape, to say the least. The building would have been used to accommodate just about anything, from various productions to unpretentious storages. All this contributed to the building’s pitiful state. A lot of funds had to be spent to make the facility first at least presentable and eventually quite respectable. Large-scale construction and finishing work has been carried out, to completely reconstruct and stock up the building: the roof repaired, the façade insulated and faced with tile, the enormous glass panels replaced with separate double-pane windows, the floor reinforced for greater load-carrying capacity. Complete repairs of three storeys housing the administration and amenity rooms have been done, as well as installing an electronic access control, automatic fire-protection and security and video monitoring systems. A full overhaul of the production shop engineering services has been carried out. One may certify that all the works have been done on a very professional level and not without creativity. The latter assertion is testified by such a, at first glance, trifle as the trade mark Y stylishly “inlaid” in the props of the handrails of the administration building stares. Even from outside, the building of YAROVIT Motors looks like a bright flower against the background of somber gray houses of Saint Petersburg How is work organized inside the edifice outstanding from the general mass of buildings?    PRODUCTION PROCESS TECHNOLOGY The technology, obviously, differs much from the traditional conveyor assembly. Totally different technologies are used here: laser cutting of metal sheets to produce reinforcements, cross-pieces, frame brackets and other fixing parts, bending the sheet blanks using a CNC bending press, semi-automatic arc welding of parts and assemblies of the cab. There are two more separate work sections in the production building. These are the cabs’ gluing-assembling post and the post where painted cabs are assembled prior to mounting them on the truck chassis. The primed cab frame is put on one of these posts, following which the roof plastic panels, the front, side and rear panels are mounted. The panels are fixed with special polyurethane glue and removable rivets. Contact surfaces and gluing surfaces are scraped, cleansed with rectifier and primed. After priming dries up and the glue polymerization process is completed, the cab is painted, the windows are set in and the cab stays to wait to be “mated” with the chassis. Concurrently, the truck frame is assembled. Painted side members, cross-pieces and other parts of the frame proceed to the truck assembly shop direct from the painting shop drying chamber. Next, they are joined together by bolts and nuts on the frame-assembling bench. Thereafter, various brackets are mounted on the assembled frame, serving to fix parts of the suspension, the power train, piping and cable looms. Next, electric wiring, fuel- and braking system communications are laid. The following operation consists in lifting a sub-assembled frame with a bridge crane and joining it with the suspension and driving axles. Next, the engine, transfer case, cardan shafts and other attached parts are mounted, such as the fuel tank, muffler, radiator, etc. After this “mating” a checkup is run on all the assembling and fixing operations, following which the wings and sub-wings are fixed on the frame and completely assembled wheels are mounted on axle hubs. The final checks of condition of the suspension and steering are run on special check benches of the separate test post. Next, the ready chassis rolls out for test runs. PROSPECTS The further production development plan envisages three stages: During the first stage, the inspirers of the project plan to organize work in such a way that the building-berth assembling method would provide for putting out up to 500 vehicles per year. During the second stage, conveyor assemblage will be used. The freely moving conveyor will enable to assemble 1200 trucks per year. During this stage, PC “YAROVIT Motors” plans to also master the production of the superframe and own cargo platform, and launch its own machining shop which will manufacture a wide gamut of locators and units, as well as to set up a joint-venture production manufacturing axles and drive bridges. All this will call for building another production facility with a total floor space of around 6000m2 employing up to 200 workers, which is slated to be located in one of the suburbs of Saint Petersburg. Once the auxiliary works is commissioned in operation, the nodal production facility located on the premises of Leningrad Metal Works will start stepping up its production capacity. It is planned to build a shop for vehicle debugging and acceptance procedures, and to also roof over two vacant spans. Then, as planned, YAROVIT Motors will attain the production figure of up to 1800 vehicles per year. These plans have to be implemented by the year 2009. So far, only the cabover Gloros truck family is manufactured, however, owing to the multifunctional production platform concept based on which the production shop was reconstructed and the production facility set up in general, switching over to other families, the Dogmus and the Ordex, will be an easy and short-duration task. During 2005, it is planned to put out up to 250 trucks of various wheel formulae and mounting different superstructures.
By D.Gladki
“ComTrans” Magazine, No 2/ 2005
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