Students of St. Petersburg Mining University became finalists of the Autumn Cup "CASE-IN"

Two teams of St. Petersburg Mining University - Neftekhim and EmployeeS - reached the final of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". According to tradition, the Reliable Shift Foundation acted as its organizer, which at the preliminary stage offered students to solve cases related to with the introduction of information technologies at the production sites of ALROSA, SIBUR and Gazstroyprom.

The competition for the right to participate in the final round, which will be held in Moscow on December 16, has been extremely intense this year. 721 teams took part in the qualifying competitions, and only 24 of them went to the capital.

According to representatives of the oldest technical university in Russia, they were solving the ALROSA case "Digital Industry: managing the raw material base of a mining enterprise." Fedor Aksenov, Ekaterina Sedelnikova, Anastasia Serebryakova and Kirill Naumchenko from the NEFTECH team noted that they made it to the finals of the championship due to the knowledge gained at the university, during lectures and practical exercises, the experience of participating in previous "CASE-IN" tournaments, as well as personal interest in the topics of digitalization and sustainable development of the mining industry. Understanding the production chains of mining and processing of diamond-bearing ore allowed them to clearly analyze the initial data and propose the most effective solutions to optimize the entire enterprise cycle through the introduction of digital technologies.

"The essence of our project is to implement a detailed set of digital solutions at the main production stages. The material base and level of the faculty of the Mining University allows them to acquire competencies related to information retrieval and analysis, teamwork, time management and computer modeling. Participation in the "CASE-IN" also enriches us, as we solve not abstract, but real engineering problems. All this contributes to our professional growth, which helped us reach the finals.", - explains the captain of Neftekhim Fedor Aksenov.

The EmployeeS team, consisting of Sergey Masalsky, Andrey Baskakov, Darina Zadorina and Konstantin Petrov, proposed two innovations in their project: an integration module and an RFID tag system.

"The integration module automatically transfers data on the design of workings and planned installation of equipment from one program to another. And RFID tags serve as an element complementing the storage process in an average warehouse, which is necessary to solve the problem of supplying an enterprise with homogeneous raw materials (technological mixing operations take place there, aimed at reducing fluctuations in chemical, granulometric composition and other qualitative indicators - ed.). So, thanks to the presence of tags in the ore, it is possible to make a 3D model of the warehouse. As a result, we have accelerated the design and optimized the work planning. If this scheme proves to be effective, the company can apply it to its other quarries and mines, thus increasing the efficiency of processing plants and increasing diamond production," says EmployeeS Captain Sergey Masalsky.

It should be noted that this season the organizers of the "CASE-IN" decided to hold not only the Autumn Cup, but also the Super Bowl, to which all the winners of the previous years' tournament are invited. Among them are the four–time champions of these competitions, the team of St. Petersburg Mining University WeWatt. Young people will have to solve a case related to the restoration of Donbass.

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