"Non-random people" from Udmurtia became the winners of the "CASE-IN" championship

Udmurt thermal power engineers were among the winners of the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

The Non-Random People team of the Udmurt branch of PJSC T Plus became the winner of the League of Young Specialists of the CASE-IN championship, adding a bronze medal to the collection of prestigious awards of the Udmurt Republic. The competition was held in Moscow as part of the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week International Forum. 11 teams of leading oil and energy companies from different regions of the country took part in them. Young specialists developed projects to transfer their companies' power facilities to remote control.

The League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is the largest practice–oriented competition for solving engineering cases dedicated to topical issues in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes of Russia and the CIS countries. The championship site allows not only to reveal leadership skills and enhance the competencies of young specialists of companies, but also to develop and promote promising industry projects.

"I believe that the regions should take part in the work of such forums, and the energy industry simply must. It's not even about prestige, first of all, it's an opportunity to keep abreast of existing trends in the development of the energy industry, the opportunity to be a trendsetter of these changes, shape them and build your work with an eye to future changes. That is why it is important that young engineers and potential industry leaders are involved in energy development processes. This is not the first time for the team of our branch to participate in a prestigious international championship. In the piggy bank of "Non–random people" there are three prizes in the "CASE-IN": in the League of Young Specialists and the Special League of PJSC "T Plus". But this victory is of particular value to us, as it was the first time our company represented Udmurtia at the Fuel and Energy Complex forum. We have agreed on this with the Ministry of Construction of the Republic and are grateful to Minister Dmitry Nikolaevich Surnin for his trust. Therefore, when the winners were announced, I felt real pride for our guys, for our company, for our region.", – underlined Dmitry RAZUMOV, Director of the Udmurtskiy branch of PJSC T Plus.

Permanent curator of the Non-Random People team, as well as a member of the expert group of the last competition, Yaroslav BALOBANOV, Deputy Director of the branch He noted that the victory was not easy for his players.: "The topic of the current cases concerned the transfer of power facilities to remote control. Moreover, the task was more focused on electric networks. And this is not our specialty, we are a company that produces heat and electricity. Nevertheless, the guys analyzed the practice of electric grid enterprises and presented their vision of their further development and automation of their facilities in the project. At the same time, some part of the case was devoted to generation issues. Because automation and digital transformation of energy production are no less important than in the field of electricity transmission. Our team proposed a comprehensive approach to solving this problem and eventually received high marks from experts. Moreover, the difference in the evaluation of the technical part of the project from the winner was only 0.5 points. I think this is a very worthy result."

Captain of the Non-Random People team Ivan VERSHININ He calls such competitions a good professional school for specialists.

"This is a unique challenge and experience for us, which allows us to assess our potential, understand how strong we are as specialists and as a team, and how ready we are to solve new complex tasks for the development of the enterprise and the industry as a whole. While developing our project for the championship, we plunged headlong into a new topic. Using the example of our company, we have proposed solutions that could well become promising for other fuel and energy companies in the country.", – said Ivan Vershinin.

The CASE-IN International Engineering Championship is one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities" and part of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education". And this year it was included in the plan of the main events of the Year of Science and Technology. The winners and prize-winners of the 2021 Championship were 40 contestants from 19 regions of the country. In total, more than 600 students and young specialists from Russia and the CIS countries took part in the final in eight areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, electric power, and design engineering.

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