On October 4, at the initiative of Ruspolimet JSC, a grand opening of an educational and industrial IT cluster was held in our district.

Ruspolimet JSC initiated the creation of an IT cluster last year. Then the students of school No. took part in the pilot project 1. This year we decided to make this cluster interschool, so that any 9th grader would have the opportunity to attend classes in the cluster and explore the world of information technology.

The IT cluster united Ruspolimet, HSE (Nizhny Novgorod), Kulebak Metallurgical College and all schools of the Kulebak district. Starting next week, the guys will study in the cluster every week and take master classes, participate in projects, visit Ruspolimet to see with their own eyes how information technologies are used in real production, meet with specialists of the enterprise, and also learn how to get an education to become a real IT specialist.

- We worked in the same way together with students of NSTU and HSE. Therefore, we have already worked out the mechanisms. On the basis of the college, KMK teachers, HSE teachers will conduct classes, master classes and implement various projects with senior and 9th grade students," said Lyudmila Guseva, Director of the Kulebak Metallurgical College.

Already today, as part of the opening of the cluster, the first lesson was held. Teachers and students of the Higher School of Economics conducted thematic master classes for students, teachers and parents. It was a fascinating dive into the IT world. The beginning has been laid, many more interesting events and important events are waiting for the guys ahead.

- It is impossible to develop industry and move towards new achievements without the support of IT specialists. A large enterprise requires the mandatory presence of such an IT architect, a business informatician who understands how to optimize all processes using information technology," Natalia Serova, Deputy Director of the HSE branch in Nizhny Novgorod, stressed.

 Ruspolimet, together with our partners - educational organizations, will do everything to make classes in the IT cluster useful and help its participants determine their further professional choice.

- We have started career guidance work since elementary school and since early childhood we have been laying interest in metallurgical, technical professions in children, popularizing the profession of an engineer, - said Nina Kubantseva, HR Director of Ruspolimet JSC.

And already on October 10, the opening of an educational and industrial cluster of a technical profile for students of grades 9-10 of our district will take place.

    

An HR Summit was held in Nizhny Novgorod.

The KUPNO site has become a place of attraction for hundreds of HR specialists from our region and other regions. The most pressing issues of attracting and retaining staff in conditions of personnel shortage, trends and prospects in the labor market were discussed.

The heads of the Personnel Directorate of Ruspolimet JSC, as participants of the HR Summit, shared their experience in attracting staff and working with young people at our enterprise. HR projects of JSC "Ruspolimet" aroused great interest from the participants and speakers of the meeting.

Specialists of the Regional Competence Center (RCC) and Kulebaksky Grankom LLC (a subsidiary of Ruspolimet JSC) summed up the results of the introduction of lean technologies within the framework of the national project "Labor Productivity".

The company produces import-substituting products - powders and granules for the aviation industry, fuel and energy complex, nuclear and general engineering.

"The introduction of lean technologies is one of the ways for enterprises to increase work efficiency and product competitiveness without special investments. 240 enterprises of the region have already taken advantage of this opportunity. Of these, 27 organizations are from the field of metalworking," Acting Deputy Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Andrey Sanosyan said.

Acting Minister of Industry, Trade and Entrepreneurship of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Maxim Cherkasov said that at Grankom LLC, RCC experts chose the process of manufacturing a special powder for 3D printers as a pilot flow.

"The share of this product in the company's revenue is almost 40 percent. In six months of work, our specialists have identified 32 "bottlenecks" in this area and suggested ways to eliminate them. For example, we have developed a system for storing semi-finished products and screening, which has reduced the time to search for raw materials. In addition, the installation for packaging the finished product was modernized. Thanks to the work of experts, the output at the site has increased by 15 percent," the acting minister said.

RCC experts also trained 16 employees of the company in lean technologies and trained two internal trainers who will be able to independently optimize work processes and train their colleagues in the future.

"We have identified several types of losses in the flow, among them - waiting, unnecessary movements and movements along the flow, unnecessary actions of operators in the production process of products. The organization of targeted storage of powders and the development of regulations for working with stands for the movement of metal-powder compositions helped to solve these issues. Thanks to innovations, we managed to increase the speed of work by 28 percent and reduce work-in-progress by 12 percent," said Roman Renzin, head of the Regional Competence Center.

Detailed consultations on participation in the national project "Labor Productivity" can be obtained at the My Business center and by calling the hotline: 8 (800) 301-29-94 (toll-free).

The national project "Labor Productivity" is designed to increase the efficiency of work at enterprises and increase the competitiveness of Russian companies. On the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the implementation of the national project is supervised by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Entrepreneurship of the region. Federal and regional competence centers (FCC and RCC) are the operators of the national project, their main task is to provide targeted support to enterprises in the region and train employees in lean production tools. The RCC of the Nizhny Novgorod Region is a subordinate organization of the regional Ministry of Industry.

The national project "Labor Productivity" was developed in accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. It includes federal projects "Systemic measures to increase labor productivity" and "Targeted support for improving labor productivity at enterprises". The purpose of the national project is to provide a five percent annual increase in labor productivity at medium and large enterprises of non-resource sectors of the economy. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the implementation of the national project "Labor Productivity" began in 2019. Its participants were automakers, shipbuilders, manufacturers of electrical equipment, as well as representatives of the trade and services sector.