REGIONAL BOARD OF CHIEF ENGINEERS

On February 6, at the premises of StankoMashStroy there was held a meeting of the Chief Engineers Council of the Penza region industrial enterprises, which was attended by about 50 chief engineers, technical directors, deputy directors for production, as well as representatives of the regional ministry of industry.

Sergey Mityasov, Deputy General Director for Production at StankoMashStroy, spoke about the development of the enterprise and gave a tour of production. In the conditions of the changing metalworking market, a serious restructuring of the enterprise and the modernization of the equipment produced is taking place to meet the requirements of customers. Expansion of sales markets requires the company to increase the production volumes and widen the range of equipment produced. For these purposes, a new workshop was built last year, where it is prepared to start production of new high-precision equipment - milling machining centers. Another production building, where the manufacturing of components for all types of machine tools will begin, to be commissioned this year.

When opening the meeting, the Chairman of the Council of Chief Engineers of the Penza Region, Chief Engineer of the industrial association "Start" Gennady Kondratyev noted that while visiting various enterprises in the region, there is an opportunity not only to find out who produces what, but also to understand how to help each other. More and more enterprises not only in the Penza region, but also in other regions cooperate with StankoMashStroy in the production of lathe machines of various models and modifications, thereby developing the machine-tool industry of the country. Irina Muravyova, Deputy General Director of the company, told the meeting participants about the promotion of products, including foreign markets. Today the equipment produced by StankoMashStroy is exported to 14 countries of the world. The consumers of metalworking equipment, both in the Russian and foreign markets, highly appreciate the favorable price-quality ratio of the manufactured machines.

During the meeting, the participants discussed new solutions and ideas for the development of industry in the region, and touched upon the labor productivity increasing, which is the actual topic of nowadays. At the end of 2019, more than 20 agreements were concluded on the implementation of measures within the framework of the national project "Labor productivity and employment support". The company "StankoMashStroy" is one of the active participants of the federal project "Targeted support for increasing labor productivity at enterprises", in the framework of which the experts of the Federal Competence Center for Labor Productivity (FCC) train enterprise specialists in methods and skills of lean production. The introduced tools will allow not only increasing labor productivity, but will also contribute to improving the quality of manufactured equipment, reducing costs and increasing competitiveness.

Within the framework of the meeting, the awarding of young engineers of the Penza region and the presentation of commendations from the regional Ministry of Industry took place.