The NKNH team entered the top 5 of the engineering championship

From May 20 to 22, the final of the XIV season of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN was held in Moscow, on the basis of MISIS University. 760 young professionals from Russia and 14 countries participated in the competition. Nizhnekamskneftekhim presented by a team of young specialists "Challenge accepted" – experts Daria Kaledzhi, Karina Grakhova, Karot Avetisyan and Denis Anisimov.

 

CASE-IN is one of the most reputable engineering championships for young professionals in the country: the decisions of the finalists are studied, among other things, at the level of relevant ministries of the Russian Federation.

The organizers set the participants a difficult task – the "Reassembly of assets" case.: how end-to-end technologies and ESG strategies shape business immunity in the era of sanctions." The NKNH team has proposed a solution in the field of predictive equipment diagnostics – an intelligent failure prediction system based on data from the corporate data Lake.

The essence of the development is to combine disparate data streams from SIBUR's digital tools into a single platform. Currently, data from sensors of existing digital ECONCE, IoT and other systems – temperature, vibration, flow – is stored in the Data Lake, but it is not interconnected in any way. The proposed system collects them through an orchestrator, filters them, processes them using artificial intelligence, and predicts equipment failures with an accuracy of 95% and a forecast horizon of 72 hours based on historical data over five years.

"We can predict an event in 72 hours and prepare backup equipment for operation in advance. This reduces unscheduled production shutdowns, reduces idling and reduces the number of emergency repairs. According to the terms of the competition for the development of the project, we had two weeks – the deadlines are very tight, a real intensive skill upgrade. You gain experience, immerse yourself in topics you hadn't even thought about before, and train your ability to speak out and defend your interests.", – the expert shared Denis Anisimov, one of the authors of the solution.

In the final Leagues of young Professionals The team competed with 13 of the strongest teams and took fifth place – only 0.1 points were missing from the top three. The experts emphasized the high level of the report and the thoroughness of the solution.

This is the second final in a row for NKNH: in the Autumn CASE-IN Cup 2025, the team also passed the qualifying stage among more than 40 companies and reached the All-Russian stage.

"CASE-IN is a real challenge: to prove to yourself and others that you are a competent specialist from a highly potential company. It's nice to see how NKNH is rapidly rising in the ranking of companies every year.", – said the curator of the team, an expert Anna Baranovskaya.

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