Digital transformation: the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage was held at LGTU

The winner of the qualifying stage was determined the day before, on February 27, in the hall of the Academic Council of LGTU. 10 teams competed for the right to represent the university and the region in the championship finals, which included future metallurgists, economists, IT specialists, technologists and power engineers. Each team presented its own solution to the case, which the participants had 10 days to prepare.

At the final test of the qualifying stage, the leading specialist of the Reliable Change Foundation, A.A. Bortuleva, the acting rector of Lipetsk State Technical University, P.V. Saraev, and the Director of the Technical Directorate of NLMK addressed the participants, experts and guests of the championship A.I. Dagman.

— Lipetsk State Technical University Championship "Case-in" special attention is being paid. The championship has become an integral element of the educational process not only for students studying metallurgy, but also for power engineers, economists, and information technology specialists. I am sure that for some guys, participation in the championship will be a turning point that will open up new prospects for professional and career growth in Russia's leading industrial enterprise, the Novolipetsk Steel, — commented the acting rector of LGTU Pavel Viktorovich Saraev.

The teams faced a difficult practical task, developed with the participation of NLMK PJSC and related to the wear of the rolls of the finishing stands of the hot rolled sheet steel mill. The participants analyzed a large amount of data on roll wear, identified factors influencing this process using statistical methods, and built a range pricing methodology based on the data obtained. In addition, the proposed solution was supposed to increase the energy efficiency of the main technological process and, of course, be economically beneficial.

— This year's case was more concise, dedicated to a specific task. At the same time, the guys offered more solutions compared to last year, and the interest of the experts was higher. Experts paid attention to the technology and the economic effect, — commented the expert of the championship, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Metallurgical Technologies of LGTU Alexander Nikolaevich Rogotovsky.

The expert commission included leading NLMK specialists and LGTU scientists. During the 3 years of the championship, the Director of NLMK's Technical Directorate has been the permanent chairman of the jury Alexey Igor Dagman.

— The tasks are becoming more difficult and interesting. If the previous tasks were more theoretical, today's tasks are real, practical and necessary for production. There are no right and wrong solutions, there are many different solutions that can have either a greater or lesser effect. I hope that we will find from the set of proposals exactly those that we can then implement.- the chairman of the expert commission shared. 

The experts' assessments made it possible to determine the winner. They became the Digerati team consisting of Ekaterina Pleshkova, Ekaterina Zvereva, Alexander Zakharov and Anastasia Ryzhenkova. The guys analyzed the data, filtered it and brought it into a single format, developed regression equations for each box and pricing methodology. Based on their calculations, the team proposed to replace the roller materials and thus achieve a high economic effect.

— Experts said that our model is quite accurate. It is linear, quite simple and straightforward, so we believe that this is one of the factors that led us to victory., — told by a 4th year student of the Department of Industrial Thermal Power Engineering Ekaterina Pleshkova.

The Integration team consisting of Elmaddin Mammadov (captain), Kirill Nitchenko, Emilia Gulavskaya, Dmitry Patrin lost four points to the leaders. The third place was taken by the Progress team, which included Anna Levykina (captain), Ilya Bogomolov, Andrey Gladyshev, Sergey Akulov.

In the spring, the winners of the qualifying stage will have to go to the championship finals, where They will compete against teams from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Magnitogorsk, Novokuznetsk, Perm, Tomsk and Chelyabinsk. Polytechnic students already have a successful experience representing the region in the finals of the championship: in 2017, the team of LGTU Millennium became the winner of the metallurgy League.

A source: LGTU