The UMMC team won the CASE-IN championship

The final was held in Moscow on May 30-31. The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". In the "League of Young Professionals" (under 35 years old) of the CASE-IN championship, the team from UMMC-Holding LLC (Copper Quantum) became the winner as part of:

Anatoly Papchenkov - Head of the Department of Energy Efficiency and Energy Audit (Service of the Director of Energy at UMMC-Holding LLC);

Anton Yemelyanov — Head of the Strategic Analysis Department (Service of the Deputy General Director of UMMC-Holding LLC);

Yulia Muzychenko — Head of the Financial Institutions Department (Financial Director's Office, UMMC-Holding LLC);

Vyacheslav Yevsyukov is a leading Automation control Engineer (Uralelectromed JSC).

The title topic of the engineering case was "Digitalization of the Far East". In accordance with the task, the teams designed the digital integration of large—scale energy and infrastructure projects in the Far East into a macro-regional system in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular, the team has developed a set of digital solutions for the Natalka gold deposit, the largest operating deposit in Russia.

After a detailed analysis of the production processes at the Natalka GOK, the UMMC team members proposed several ways to optimize production efficiency using digital technologies — visiometric analysis of the grade of processed ore, autopiloting of mining equipment, mixed reality technology, etc. For the successful operation of the proposed solutions, a digital model is presented that will allow combining local systems and optimizing the organizational structure of the company. The introduction of these technologies, according to preliminary calculations, can bring the project an additional profit of about 1.5 billion rubles over 10 years, and additional contributions to the state budget will amount to about 230 million rubles.

The final of the "CASE-IN" is a grandiose competition between young engineers and engineering students. This year, 15 teams from companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes made it to the finals of the League of Young Specialists, and more than 500 students from 57 universities in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan made it to the final of the Student League of the championship.

Teams from Gazprom Transgaz Ufa LLC (2nd place), Gazprom Investproekt LLC (3rd place), SUEK-Kuzbass JSC, Enel Russia PJSC, Tatneft PJSC, Gazprom Transgaz Surgut LLC, Gazprom UGS", JSC Gazpromneft – MNPZ, JSC Gazprom Gas Distribution Far East, JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System ODU of the South, PJSC IDGC of the North-West and JSC Zolotoe Seligdar. The performance of the UMMC team was highly appreciated by experts. 

— It is worth noting the creative approach to solving the case, the high level of study of the proposed solutions by the UMMC team, the systematic, structured and clear presentation of materials. The digital solutions under consideration will make it possible to offset the existing limitations that are relevant for many enterprises in the mining and processing division, such as high fuel costs, high labor costs and a shortage of qualified personnel, and low metal extraction rates. I want to wish the guys good luck, self—realization and the implementation of proposed projects at domestic enterprises," said the chairman of the expert commission of the League of Young Professionals CASE-IN, Vice President of the National Chamber of Technology, member of the Subcommittee on Digital Economy and Innovation and the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on International Cooperation of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs) Alexander Hrebtov.

A source: UMMC-Holding