Reactor of Success
The Metafrax Chemicals team won the qualifying round and reached the final of the youth LIN-championship "Efficiency and Competitiveness 2025".
The event was held in Perm on the territory of the Boiling Point space. The corporate teams of JSC Metafrax Chemicals, JSC ODK-STAR, JSC SOMZ and JSC Solikamskbumprom took part in the fourth qualifying round.
Our team, called the Success Reactor, was represented at the championship by young specialists: Natalia Kharisova, a process engineer at the railway workshop, Veronika Kuzyvanova, a chemical engineer at the Ammonia-Urea-Melamine (AUM) analytical laboratory, Sergey Galkin, a design engineer at the design department, Vitaly Gizatulin, a methanol production mechanic, and the team captain, shift process engineer of ammonia plant Ivan Frolov.
- This time we have updated the team members - we have immersed the Youth team in lean production. Six hours of intensive work, five rounds of complex production cases – as a result, our guys showed a high level of knowledge and skills in the field of lean manufacturing, in improving the quality of business processes, demonstrated effective teamwork and earned a ticket to the championship finals," shared Oksana Panchenkova, Head of the Operational Efficiency Department.
During the qualifying round, our team overcame five stages. The first task was the presentation of the national team and its participants. At the next stage, she had to answer the questions of the "Thrifty Quiz". Metafrax's mentoring experience helped the team develop and present to the jury an effective model for training and adapting new employees through a mentoring system. It was important to apply 5C technologies, standardization, visualization and TWI at this stage.
The captain's competition turned out to be productive for our national team. Ivan Frolov successfully explained the terms of lean manufacturing without naming the declared words, and the team members guessed them.
The final test of the qualifying round was the "Efficiency Bridge". Here, the team has developed an effective model of the production presented, using various tools and methods of lean manufacturing, project management and productivity improvement.
- The victory of our team in the qualifying round is the result of the efforts made, high–quality training and experience gained during the implementation of the lean production system at our enterprise. I would like to note that more than half of the team members are new to the LEAN championship, but this did not prevent us from showing excellent results, demonstrating our competencies, high skills and interest. I am proud of every member of the team," said team captain Ivan Frolov.
Having become the leaders of the qualifying round, the Metafrax Chemicals team reached the finals of the youth LEAN championship, which will be held on December 4 as part of the Perm Engineering and Industrial Forum.