Novocherkassk students: Silver medal at the CASE-IN Championship is just the beginning of a long journey

In the final of the CASE-IN championship, the students of the Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University performed well, winning silver in the field of Mining Machinery and Equipment.

The final "CASE-IN" competitions ended in Moscow at the NUST MISIS site. The "Mulberry" team included students of the Faculty of Information Technology and Management, fourth-year students of the Department of Information Measurement Systems and Technologies: Daria Zubova, Semyon Semenist and Daniil Shakhov. The mentor of the team is Svetlana Shirobokova, Associate Professor of the Department of IIST.

"Our students of Applied Informatics are active participants, prize-winners and winners of many IT Olympiads and professional championships. This year, the Mulberry team participated in the final of the "CASE-IN" with the solution of the case from Alrosa in the direction of "Mining machinery and equipment". The case from the largest diamond mining group of companies was related to reducing planned downtime of self-propelled machinery in a diamond mining quarry and increasing the efficiency of repair personnel using IT technologies., - Svetlana Nikolaevna told me. - The guys showed once again that IT and digitalization are permeating all industries now, and mining enterprises are no exception. The team has proposed a comprehensive solution to improve the quality of production process management and business efficiency. Competing with teams from the leading universities of the country, our students were able to show excellent results in a non-core area for them and win the silver medal of the championship. I am proud of my team!"

The main task of the authors of the case was to reduce downtime during maintenance of mining dump trucks. And since mining machines and equipment are a rather specific and unfamiliar field for IT specialists in Novocherkassk, the case initially seemed very difficult to them.

"But then we decided that there were no impossible tasks, we approached the issue of studying the specifics of the industry very carefully, applied, in our opinion, innovative and promising technologies (artificial intelligence), and used the domestic 1C platform.:Enterprise, augmented reality glasses, pneumatic hangars and much more Daniil Shakhov shared his secrets. - Our solution was comprehensive and covered all the bottlenecks we found. In my opinion, our team showed a high level, the guys worked very hard.: Dasha was exploring a new area for us, and Semyon was developing a solution. We spent a lot of time on the presentation and the report, we wanted to make it as clear as possible that our decision was carefully worked out and I believe that we succeeded, which was appreciated by the judges. I would like to say a special thank you to Svetlana Nikolaevna, without her support and faith in success we would not have been able to cope. I am very proud of my team and the fact that we have shown such a high level in international competition, and in the future we will put even more effort into winning first place!"

Semyon and Daria and their teammate completely agree: the silver medal of the championship is just a stage of a long journey!

"This is not the first time we have participated in the championship. But this time we chose a new direction for us, "Mining machinery and equipment". The case was really difficult, and it took more than one sleepless night to solve it. Our team is happy with the result and next time we will definitely take 1st place, maybe in another new direction for us.", - Semyon is sure.

"Participating in such championships is always a challenge. The team has to give their best, learn to find non-standard solutions in order to win over the jury members. We were able to achieve such a high result thanks to the well-coordinated work of the team. All our work has been structured in such a way that everyone is equal in their status and voting rights. All decisions in the team were made jointly during the discussion process. Everyone understood their mission and worked to achieve the best result. That's why we were able to provide a high-quality solution and win silver at the championship.", - Daria is sure.

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