22.06.2021

DLNP Express Workshops

Renovated express workshops have been opened on the ground floor of the DLNP building.

This location of the workshops is traditional: from time immemorial, experimentalists made by themselves necessary components and devices here. Old-timers certainly remember both smell of lubricant and metal in the hallways and room shelves stuffed with all sorts of necessary and unnecessary spare parts, tools and devices.

A short time ago, the main DLNP building was extensively renovated. The ground floor was also changed. Its essence however remained the same: it is still the place where one can quickly make a needed single piece of equipment. Manufacturing lines for mass production are also available at our Laboratory.

“The iron steed is coming to replace the peasant horse,” Sergey Leonidovich Yakovenko, the DLNP chief engineer, describes the changes of the express workshops on the ground floor. “They are light now, there is new and modern equipment. And the main thing is that the workshops are not a shelter for loners any more, but a place for general use. Everyone, trained and authorized to operate machine tools, may come and do everything they need immediately.”

So, the workshops are renovated, equipped and opened. And what about authorization and training?

“Over several years we trained the interested employees to operate these machine tools,” continues Sergey Leonidovich. “The training took place at the college of Dubna University (former college 67). At present, several groups finished the training. The leavers got the required skills, and the corresponding certificates were awarded to them. One could choose among three qualifications: turner, milling-machine operator or welder. Moreover, there are up-to-date CNC machines and 3D printers in our workshops. We trained CNC-machine operators at our university. Technicians, engineers, school-leavers and others were involved — all of those who had a wish to be trained.”

Sergey Leonidovich believes that the new workshops will facilitate life of DLNP experimentalists because any component required for research can be made with one’s own hands without delays.

“It is important that the express workshop equipment is officially commissioned and regularly maintained. And the employees are instructed before the use of machinery,” concludes S. L. Yakovenko. “The people responsible for workshop operation are appointed. They are Dmitry Veslavovich Fedoseev and Vladimir Ivanovich Kolomoets, an expert and Dmitry’s instructor.”

It is great that DLNP employees have now such relevant and valuable equipment to support their experiments! Those who want to use the express workshops, to be trained to operate machine tools, to find out more, please contact D. V. Fedoseev (Tel.: 216-31-05).

In the photos: D. V. Fedoseev; the machine tools in the workshops.