Students of the Volgograd region have developed solutions using Industry 4.0 technologies

The qualifying competitions of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of Metallurgy were held at Volgograd State Technical University. Eight teams consisting of students from the Faculty of Structural Materials Technology defended the solutions of the case provided by RUSAL.

RUSAL is a leading company in the global aluminum industry and the largest producer of aluminum with a low carbon footprint. The company uses electricity from renewable sources to produce more than 90% of aluminum, and the introduction of innovative and energy-saving technologies reduces greenhouse gas emissions at all production stages. This allowed UC RUSAL to be one of the first in the world to start production of the "green" metal, which the company launched on the market under the ALLOW brand.

The idea of the case was to develop a set of measures to improve the aluminum production process based on an analysis of the main influencing parameters (factors) and obtain an aluminum alloy of the required composition based on Industry 4.0 technologies.

As a result, the Children of the Department team, which included Danila Afonin, Mark Krokhalev and Olga Mozgunova (class MV-331), coped with this task best of all.

The second place was taken by the Umniki team, consisting of Valeria Nikolaeva (class of ATP-121), Anna Batsullo and Aruna Golikova (class of MV-331).

Now these teams will have to prove the promise of their decisions in the semi-finals of the federal district.

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