46 student teams claim victory in the Autumn Cup of the CASE-IN Championship

46 student teams became semi-finalists of the Autumn Cup The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is supported by the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".

The participants of the Student League, which is supported by the National Research University "MEI" and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, solved cases on the main topic of the XII season of the CASE-IN championship "Lean Manufacturing" as part of the qualifying stage. Partner companies ALROSA, SIBUR and United Metallurgical Company have prepared realistic tasks for industry youth.

The future specialists presented their innovative ideas using the principles of thrift to an expert commission consisting of specialists from industry companies and specialized universities. The authors of the best projects received tickets to the semi-finals of federal significance.

While solving the assignment from ALROSA, the 131 student team analyzed the company's fleet of excavating machines and evaluated the current service system to identify possible weaknesses. As a result of the painstaking 15-day work, the participants designed methods for automating operational processes related to the planning and management of maintenance and repair of excavators, as well as wrote instructions for maintaining repair logs and filling in data. The teams were also able to determine the potential effect of improving the MRO system with a feasibility study.

15 student teams from the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Saratov, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Dubna, Yaroslavl, Perm advanced to the next stage.

An equally interesting task was prepared by the United Metallurgical Company, which invited 119 teams to analyze the technological equipment, software and human resources needed to launch the pipe and electric welding mill on their own, taking into account the withdrawal of Western partners from the market. An important part of the solutions were the concepts of a social project for the "professional transformation" of employees, on the basis of which training programs for technological personnel and managers to work at the new mill were prepared.

15 teams representing universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Stavropol, Surgut, Tula, Samara and Bratsk were recognized as semi-finalists.

SIBUR asked students to develop a logistics model for the delivery of petrochemical products based on optimization methods and lean technologies, ensuring increased economic efficiency in the horizon until 2025.

Of the 104 teams that solved the case, only 16 from the cities of St. Petersburg, Tyumen, Surgut, Tobolsk, Kazan, Almetyevsk, Tomsk, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Yakutsk, and Vladivostok will compete in the semifinals.

Thus, 46 student teams will finalize their solutions and remotely present them to experts during the semi-finals of federal significance.

The authors of the most promising solutions will travel to Moscow for the final finals of the Autumn Cup, where on December 9 they will tell the industry community about their ideas, share experiences with peers, and also be able to communicate with the heads of the largest companies and take part in interactive events of the finals.

The champions and prize–winners of the Student League will have the opportunity on preferential terms to enroll in the partner universities of the championship for master's and postgraduate programs, as well as to complete internships and internships with the largest employers with the possibility of further employment.