Kuzbassrazrezugol won the REN Cup of the CASE-IN championship

A team of young engineers from Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company won the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship Cup, which was held as part of the Russian Energy Week Youth Day in Moscow. The national team of the coal company has become one of the best among the 22 teams of the largest fuel and energy companies in the country. The award was presented to the winners by Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

The youth teams at the engineering championship presented solutions to the case on the topic "Artificial Intelligence: shaping the energy of the future." Kuzbassrazrezugol presented a project for an intelligent control system for technological highways in coal mines. It automatically detects rock deposits that may interfere with the safe movement of mining equipment, helps to extend the service life of large-sized tires of technological vehicles and prevent emergencies.

"Our company strives to use the best available technologies to improve the safety and efficiency of open-pit coal mining, including those based on artificial intelligence. We have successfully implemented a digital driver fatigue monitoring system and are continuing to develop it. We are currently testing the function of monitoring the use of seat belts in transport using neural network algorithms. All the solutions presented at the Championship have the prospect of practical application in our enterprises.", — He told me captain of the Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company team, chief specialist of the Department of Motor Transport Eduard Bondarev.

The Cup of the Russian Energy Week of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship has been held since 2017. This year, together with Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company, the youth teams of Gazpromneft-MNPZ, Rosatom Infrastructure Solutions, NLMK, SUEK-Kuzbass, SIBUR-INNOVATIONS, ROSSETI Group enterprises and other companies took part in it.  The young engineers also took part in the business program of the REN Youth Day and, together with industry experts, discussed key topics for the development of the fuel and energy complex.

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