Students of the Lipetsk region demonstrated solutions for the development of metallurgy and energy

The qualifying stage of the Student League of the XII International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the fields of Metallurgy and Electric Power Engineering was held at LGTU.

"It is the engineering movement that is the force stimulating the country's economy," said L.A. Zageeva, Rector of LGTU, opening the event.

The twelfth season of the championship is held under the theme "Lean manufacturing". 7 LGTU teams in the field of Metallurgy and 9 teams in the field of Electric power industry competed for a ticket to the semi-finals of the championship. They included future metallurgical engineers, metal scientists, chemists, IT specialists, electric power engineers, quality management specialists and economists.

The experts included representatives of the largest Russian companies in the field of metallurgy and electric power industry: NLMK PJSC, ROSSETI PJSC, EuroChem Company, Rosatom State Corporation.

The winning teams in the Metallurgy field were awarded by A.I. Dagman, Head of the Expert Department of NLMK's Directorate for the Development of New Process Technologies. The seats were distributed as follows:

1st place – "Time of Metal";

2nd place - "Fixiki metallurgii";

3rd place – "Veritas".

In the field of "Electric power Industry", the best were:

1st place – "Do it";

2nd place - "Gercon";

3rd place – "Volt works".

The students were congratulated by V. V. Chernikov, Head of the Dispatching Service of the Network Management Center of PJSC ROSSETI.

The Time of Metal team (Vladislav Yurov, Andrey Zachinyaev, Denis Shatalov, Anastasia Bocharnikova) was recognized as the winner in the Metallurgy direction; the mentor is the head of the Department of Metal Science I.A. Tsyganov. The participants developed a set of measures to implement Lean manufacturing tools to improve the efficiency of aluminum production business processes, which should reduce production costs. The task involved a high-tech solution using artificial intelligence, which the students successfully completed.

The Do It team, which took 1st place (Sergey Zuev, Roman Sysoev, Nikita Shaboldin, Vladislav Grabar), proposed the project "Development of technical and organizational measures to reduce the level of electrical network accidents"; the mentor of the team is Associate professor of the Department of Automated Electric Drive and Robotics A.I. Boikov. Based on the analysis of the initial case data, a solution was proposed to use robotic assistants with an intelligent inspection and fire extinguishing system at substations. The use of robotic assistants will reduce the accident rate of electrical networks; increase the safety of employees; increase productivity; minimize the human factor during switching and routine inspections of equipment; speed up the process of organizing work; reduce production costs.

The winning teams of the qualifying stage will meet at the next stage of the championship, where they will represent the Lipetsk region at the national level. 

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