Students of St. Petersburg Mining University won two gold medals at the CASE-IN Championship

Representatives of the oldest technical university in Russia became the best in the fields of "Geological exploration" and "Electric Power Industry".

The results of the XII season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the areas of "Electric Power Industry", "Geological Exploration", as well as "Mining machinery and equipment" were summed up in Moscow. In the role of the organizer of these intellectual competitions, which are held with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", The Reliable Shift Foundation has traditionally performed.

The most widespread areas in the Student League are those related to mining, which, as in previous years, are overseen by the diamond mining company ALROSA. In the case that her experts prepared for future geologists, the task was to identify promising sites for the discovery of kimberlite pipes, as well as to find ways to improve production processes using lean manufacturing technologies.

The Geofrogs team from the St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II coped with this task better than others, and it won the first place in this category. For example, the guys drew the jury's attention to the fact that the productivity of specialists directly depends on how efficiently they spend their working hours. They are often hampered by the dominance of "paperwork" to increase efficiency, but if advanced document management automation systems are introduced, their efficiency can increase dramatically. As well as the efficiency of the entire enterprise.

The final of the Electric Power Industry course was divided into two streams. Tasks for one group of participants were presented by JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System, and for the other by PJSC ROSSETI, whose specialists suggested that students develop a set of technical and organizational measures to reduce accidents.

The Hot Reserve team from the Mining University, which became the winner in this nomination, participated in the second stream. Its representatives pointed to the obvious fact that the increase in equipment failures indicates (at least indirectly) the lack of competence of the specialists responsible for it. And if, for example, the number of transformer failures at substations has increased in certain regions, which leads to the disconnection of a huge number of households and industrial consumers from electricity, it means that it is urgently necessary to organize advanced training courses for their employees. Moreover, at pre-selected educational sites for this purpose.

"For each of us, the path to the podium has been long and thorny. Nevertheless, we managed to combine our efforts and present non-trivial solutions to the experts. In many ways, this became possible thanks to mentors, teachers who teach us to think outside the box, and, of course, the availability of modern software at the Mining University that allows us to perform specific user tasks," Valeria Vorobyeva from the Hot Reserve team shared her emotions.

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