Kuzbass residents are among the leaders of the Autumn CASE–IN Cup

On December 9, the final of the XII season of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN took place at the site of the Moscow cluster Lomonosov. Experts from Russia's leading industries reviewed 63 promising solutions for implementing lean manufacturing principles and recognized the Kuzbass Polytechnic University teams as the best.

In the final of the largest league of the championship, the student league, 22 strongest teams met. The task of the industry-wide direction was prepared by ALROSA: to develop an optimal logistics model for fuel supply, ensuring the achievement of an equilibrium price and economic efficiency until 2029.

The national team of KuzSTU "Kuzbass Express" (Anastasia Ustyuzhanina, Yaroslav Avdeev, Mikhail Luzin – Institute of Energy and Elizaveta Fil – Institute of Chemical and Oil and Gas Technologies, head – Ivan Paskar, senior lecturer at the Department of Power Supply of Mining and Industrial Enterprises) became the absolute winner of the championship. The students defended a unique solution – the delivery of fuel to the company's enterprises by airships.

"We decided that since it is not always possible to supply diesel fuel by land transport (for example, due to weather conditions), then why not use an aboveground one. Having determined the most optimal quantity and route, our team proposed transporting fuel for mining and processing plants on five cargo airships with a lifting capacity of 150 tons. Based on the daily diesel fuel requirements of each mining and processing plant and their meteorological conditions, we have determined the amount of diesel fuel that will be delivered daily. This is necessary to maintain the reserve in GOK and in order to mitigate the risk of non–flying weather," said Anastasia Ustyuzhanina, the captain of the team, a graduate student of IE.

Thanks to the decision of KuzSTU students, the company will be able to reduce logistics costs. Among other things, the team made recommendations on the implementation of the 1C system: "Inventory accounting of fuels and lubricants", as well as on the replacement of mechanical measuring instruments with electronic ones to reduce the error of devices when taking readings from tanks.

16 finalist teams of the school league solved the case of the Alabuga SEZ for the creation of printed circuit board production. The high school students studied the tools of lean manufacturing, assessed the economic efficiency of plant construction and proposed solutions that increase the productivity of the enterprise, as well as safety for workers and the environment.

Two teams of the Kemerovo Talent Center, established at KuzSTU with the full support of the Melnichenko Foundation, were among the leaders at once. The first place was taken by the guys from Kuzbass Energy (Kirill Rudyakov, Yaroslav Khlystun, Alexander Petrov – City Classical Lyceum, Alexander Denisov – Secondary School No. 14, led by Tatiana Mamzina, head of the Engineering School "Unique"), and the silver medalist was the innovators team (Daria Bukhtiyarova – Lyceum No. 62, Egor Beresnev, Gordey Kozlov – Secondary school No. 14, Daniil Latyshenko – Secondary school No. 84, supervisor – Elizaveta Kartashova, post-graduate student at the Institute of Energy).

The winners and prize-winners of the CASE-IN student league will be able to enroll in master's and postgraduate studies on preferential terms, complete internships and internships in leading industry companies with the possibility of further employment. And the best students will receive additional USE points upon admission to the partner universities of the championship.

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