The teams of St. Petersburg Mining University became the champions of the Autumn Cup "CASE-IN"

According to the students, they managed to achieve such impressive success due to their self-confidence, as well as the availability of competencies that they received at the university, including due to the availability of the latest versions of software products.

The winners, the Neftech team representing the Mining University, returned to St. Petersburg from Moscow, where the final of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunities platform, was held. At the final stage of the competition, she competed for first place with the 23 best teams from all over the country. In total, starting from the preliminary stages, the number of participants in these status competitions exceeded three thousand people.

The contestants worked on cases related to the development of digitalization and the introduction of information technologies in the mineral resource complex. So, in the final, the participants of the Autumn Cup solved the problem of the economic efficiency of underground mining of one of the mines of the leader of the diamond industry, ALROSA, through the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies.

The miners carefully worked out and presented to the jury a strategy for applying innovative technologies: signal transmission and processing using smart sensors, neural networks and the introduction of optimization algorithms based on big data. In addition, they suggested using digital equipment doubles and simulation models of the company's work to optimize production chains – these areas are actively developing at the Mining University. The experts highly appreciated the novelty and the possibility of practical implementation of the solutions of the team, which includes Fedor Aksenov, Ekaterina Sedelnikova, Anastasia Serebryakova and Kirill Naumchenko.

"Self-confidence and self-determination helped to win! We have conducted an in-depth analysis of the current software and digital platforms that are used in mining. In addition, we have carefully worked out all the possible applications of these technologies at each stage of diamond mining. The latest versions of software products are available to students at the Mining University, so we are perfectly familiar with all the best specialized programs. In addition, all members of our team attend additional professional competence courses at the university's Educational and Scientific Center for Digital Technologies, which allows us to claim the highest places even in the most prestigious competitions.", – Ekaterina Sidelnikova, a member of the Neftech team, said.

This year, the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship turned 10 years old, and in honor of the anniversary, the organizing committee decided to hold a Super Bowl, a competition between the winning teams for all the years of the tournament's existence. It was also won by the team of St. Petersburg Mining University, four-time champions of the previous years' WeWatt competitions.

 "The task turned out to be unexpected and quite extensive: it was necessary to analyze the Donbass industry, assess the state of the fuel and energy complex and infrastructure in the region, as well as assess its prospects and development potential. But the most important thing is to work out the order and nature of the restoration work using specific examples. To demonstrate the operation of our system, we selected three enterprises belonging to different industries, but forming a single mining and metallurgical cluster. We have worked out all possible scenarios for its development, which was facilitated by the indisputable advantage of our university in the field of training specialists with digital competencies for mining, oil and gas and metallurgical companies.", – Alexandra Buldysko from WeWatt emphasized.

According to experts, young people have managed to form subgroups according to the priority of introducing technological solutions, depending on the implementation of a particular scenario in the region, which allows them to choose the optimal financial and personnel policy, taking into account the existing risks. This, coupled with a clear management strategy, allowed the Mining University team, which included Alexey Zamyatin and Pavel Suslikov in addition to Alexandra Buldysko, to win the Super Bowl and receive a special prize in the Breakthrough Solution nomination for their ideas.

It should be noted that the organizers of this year's championship are the Reliable Shift Foundation, the non-profit partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities and AstraLogica LLC.

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