The qualifying stage of the "CASE-IN" championship was held at VolgSTU

The qualifying stage of the Main season of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of Petrochemistry was held at VolgSTU. The main theme of the Student League, as well as the entire twelfth season, was "Lean Manufacturing." Eight teams of the Technical University presented their solutions to the case from the strategic partner of the championship, PJSC SIBUR.

SIBUR is one of the fastest growing companies in the global petrochemical industry, the Russian leader in the production of polymers and rubbers. The teams had to analyze the production facilities included in SIBUR's contour and select one of the enterprises in order to optimize its main business processes, develop a set of measures to improve the efficiency of business processes based on lean technologies, and present a feasibility study for the implementation of the package of measures being developed. We should add that the partner of the championship also organized an interactive zone where the participants of the qualifying stage could individually go through four locations and receive souvenirs.

Speaking to students before the defense, Evgeny Shishkin, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Technology at VolgSTU, noted that in today's rapidly changing world it is very important to solve tasks quickly, but it is equally important to be able to work in a team. And the experience gained by the guys at such championships will undoubtedly help them in the future when building a successful career at the largest enterprises in the country.

After that, the experts, led by Yulia Shulevich, Professor of the Department of Analytical, Physical Chemistry and Physico-Chemistry of Polymers, listened to all eight solutions, asked questions, and most importantly, gave the teams feedback.

After a few hours of hard work, the winners became known. The Chemical University of Memes team took the third place, and the Niobium 2.0 team took the second place. And the winners were the "Wild Polymerists": Vladislav Arkhipov, Daniil Kusakovsky, Artem Tyshchenko (gr. VMS-1h) and Alexander Stepanov (gr. HT-441) will represent the university in the next stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which will be held in April.

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