Non-Standardization: Reflection About Shanxi's Weapon Industry Before Anti-Japan War

After world war Ⅰ, Automatic production line and standardizing work widely used in weapon manufacturing industry of the western nations .This caused a revolution of the weapon manufacturing industry and improved the manufacturing technique which made the weapon industry into a new era. In China, local warlords set up many separatist regimes. These warlords imported technique and equipment by all manners to build new arsenal works for the sake of enlarging military strength. Chinese weapon industry got rapid development at the certain degree. The arsenal works in Shenyang and Taiyuan were the biggest among local arsenal works that were built by local warlords in that time. They had a great influence on the development of Chinese weapon industry. This was a special example that international technique of manufacturing weapon was transferred to a certain place at a large scale in China. Therefore , it is a important part of Chinese history of weapon industry. According to file date , it is meaningful to study and analyze the developing situation of Shanxi's weapon industry before anti —Japanese war as a research object. The article is divided into a preface and five parts. It shows that standardization had a important role in the development of weapon industry at that time . As the development of Chinese weapon industry kept a secret in public, especially relevant history archives of Shanxi's weapon industry, its industrial technique in weapon level with management in these factories become a weak line. At the first part of the article, it introduces to the total ability to manufacturing weapon in Shanxi's arsenal works and cause of its production at higher speed. The second part, it shows that Shanxi's arsenal works have the ability to technological level and technological equipment . At the third and fourth parts, it emphasizes on a weakness in the filed of foundation of weapon technique, which leads to non—standardization and results in many problems on management in these factories, weapon of standardizing system, quality of...