Amur engineering students presented cases on the implementation of lean manufacturing

Amur State University hosted the qualifying stage of the Student League of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The opening ceremony was attended by Oleg Imameev, Mayor of Blagoveshchensk, a representative of the regional Ministry and ALROSA.

The XII season of the CASE-IN championship is dedicated to the single theme "Lean Manufacturing". The selection tests are conducted by students from 50 universities from all over the country. This is the seventh time that AmSU has served as a venue for the championship.

According to the terms of participation, teams from each field receive a case study from an industry company. Each team must come up with its own way to solve the problem. In just a few days, 28 teams have developed solutions for implementing lean manufacturing in three areas:

• "Geological exploration"
• Petrochemistry
• "Electric power Industry"

109 talented engineering students tried to solve cases from partner companies of the event. 
On March 7, they presented their final solutions to real production problems. 

Referral participants "Geological exploration" We completed two blocks of case assignments from ALROSA. In the first case, we got acquainted with the methodology for searching for diamond deposits, and based on it, we proposed to improve production by introducing lean manufacturing technologies. In the second, the analysis of the obtained geological and geophysical information was carried out, promising areas were identified for the discovery of new diamond deposits (kimberlite bodies). 

Students participating in the direction Petrochemistry We received a case from SIBUR. The guys developed a set of measures to improve the efficiency of business processes at one of SIBUR's manufacturing plants based on lean technologies. The young engineers presented a feasibility study for the implementation of a set of measures to the Expert Commission.

Members of the referral teams "Electric power Industry" artificial intelligence was introduced into the technology of operational dispatch control of the Unified Energy System of Russia. Digitalization and the development of artificial intelligence make it possible to open up new opportunities and prospects for the development of the electric power industry, including for achieving the goals of lean manufacturing.

The decisions of future specialists were evaluated by university teachers, as well as representatives of partner companies of the championship.

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