In December 2019 at UMMC created the service Director for transformation. The purpose of the new units without significant capital expenditure to improve operational and financial performance of the company over the next 2-3 years. The key task is to introduce enterprise management system, which will reduce operating costs and optimize production processes, to hear and to quickly implement the suggestions of ordinary engineers and specialists of enterprises, thus increasing their overall engagement in the achievement of targets.
the First platform for the implementation of the project was the Chelyabinsk zinc plant, where the result in less than a year managed to more than 420 million rubles of additional profit.
first on the Chelyabinsk branch was established, the office of development. The selection of staff was made from the factory personnel reserve. Candidates were computer testing mathematical abilities and skills in structured thinking. Then they waited for the classroom interviews with experts of the consulting company and company officials and a two-month internship in the division for the better. They learned to use the tools of analysis of production processes, build complex financial and operational models to evaluate the effects of the initiatives.
as a result, development has been developed and protected before technical and financial services staff initiatives to optimise production processes, and develop plans for their implementation, followed by their implementation. For example, in sulphuric acid plant was able to reduce the time of planned repairs from 50 to 26 and a half days, and de-coring of the lining of the weltz-kiln – with several days to 36 hours.
Positive result of a pilot project at the Chelyabinsk zinc plant was highly appreciated by the management of the company. In 2020, the planned deployment of the program on the mining enterprises of UMMC: the UMMC, Gaisky GOK, GOK Uchalinskiy.
