Determining the level of scientific maintenance of production at the Russian company "Universal electricity company" in 1915-1918 years by nomenclatural analysis of the products

The most effective methods of the organizational processes optimization in the new high-tech industries may be only those which are based on systematic relevant historical experience. However, there are currently no deep generalizations of the latter, at least that are sufficient for its systematization. This article partly fills this gap of historical knowledge. The object of study herein has become the Electromechanical Plant of the Russian Society "Universal electricity company" - the most powerful enterprise of the Russian Empire in such a new and high technology at the dawn of the last century as electrical engineering. As the subject of studies, the author selected the scientific support organization of the production process at the factory when it was evacuated to Kharkov during the World War I. The choice of the subject and the study timeframe are determined by the fact that it is the scientific support that is the determinant of production’s science intensity. However, the change of the plant dislocation under the war conditions significantly complicated the implementation of this factor. Accordingly, the question raised in the article consisting, inter alia, in the plane of knowledge about the organization of scientific support of new high-tech industries, is of special interest. However, both in modern historiography as well as in historical sources there are no data on this problem. Accordingly, to achieve the goal (the identification of the level of scientific support of the production process at the plant within the selected chronological framework), the author has tested the method of nomenclatural analysis of the products. Usage of this method has allowed to establish the historical fact that in the course of 1915-1918 the level of scientific support of production process at the Kharkov Electromechanical Plant RS "Universal electricity company" could not afford the creation of high-tech products. This was the main reason to bring about the already known mode of the enterprise’s operation not only in the period under review, but also in subsequent years. Thus, using the nomenclatural analysis of products (in conditions of shortage of the necessary direct historical evidence), an objective information was obtained. Relying on the generalizations of historical experience, this information made it possible to establish the dependency of the new high-tech industry enterprises’ efficiency on their scientific support.

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