Tour for students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University

On 22 September 2022, a study tour of the enterprises of the Izolyator Group was arranged for the second-year students of the Department of Industrial Design of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The Department of Industrial Design of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University is focused on training Design specialists, bachelors and masters. The main task of the department is the implementation of a high-quality system for training specialists in the field of industrial design, integrated into the classical engineering school of the University. Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) is a national research university of engineering and technology that integrates education and science for the purpose of training highly qualified specialists. The university trains students in almost the entire range of modern machine and instrument making.

The tour was organized in accordance with the curriculum of the Department of Industrial Design, which provides for students to undergo ‘Creative Practice’ in the Izolyator Group.

Second-year students of the Department of Industrial Design of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University on a tour of the enterprises of the Izolyator Group

The tour included a briefing on labor protection and fire safety, an introduction, a visit to the corporate museum, acquaintance with the R&D center activities, a visit to the production site of high-voltage bushings and cable accessories, a professionally oriented quest.

Mandatory orientation on labor protection and fire safety for visitors

The introductory part was devoted to basic information about the activities and structure of the Izolyator Group.

The CIGRE National Study Committee D1 ‘Materials and Emerging Test Techniques’ was created and operates on the basis of Izolyator Production Complex the part of Izolyator Group.

The introductory part of the tour provides basic information about the Izolyator Group

In the corporate museum, students got acquainted with the milestones of the history of the Izolyator plant from its foundation in 1896 to the present day.

Acquaintance with the history of the Izolyator plant in the corporate museum

Then a meeting was held with an employee of the R&D center of the Izolyator Production Complex, where the students got a fairly complete picture of the specialized software used in the course of research and development work, as well as in preparing all the necessary documentation for the serial production of high-voltage insulation equipment.

Acquaintance with the specialized software of the R&D center of the Izolyator Production Complex

The next event was a visit to the Izolyator Production Complex, which produces high-voltage bushings for all voltages from 12 kV and above up to ultra-high.

The tour went through all the workshops in the order of the technological sequence of manufacturing, testing and preparing bushings for shipment to the customer.

A visit to each production station was accompanied by exhaustive explanations given by Lead Technical Support Specialist Viktor Kiryukhin explaining the essence of each operation and the purpose of the process equipment used at that stage.

Excursion to the sites of the insulation making shop of high-voltage bushings of the Production Complex of the Izolyator Group

Acquaintance with the tasks and equipment of the 172 kV station of the test center of the Izolyator Production Complex

Excursion of students to the 1200 kV test station

The tour continued at another production facility of the Izolyator Group — the Izolyator-AKS plant. Technical Director of the enterprise Viktor Pshennov presented the most modern equipment for serial production and testing of high-voltage cable accessories for 126 to 252 kV voltage, as well as samples of finished products.

Visit to the Izolyator-AKS High-Voltage Cable Accessories Plant of the Izolyator Group

Students examine the parts of high-voltage cable armature

The student tour was finished by the professionally oriented quest ‘Let there be light!’, which has already become traditional, prepared and conducted by employees of the Izolyator Corporate University. While solving the tasks of the quest, the students demonstrated great determination and well-coordinated teamwork, which could not but lead to worthy results.

The team — five minutes to be announced the winner of the ‘Let there be light!’ quest

As a result of the game, the winners were awarded with personal certificates, all the rest were received certificates of an active participant in the quest.

Awarding of winners and participants of the quest

The students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University unanimously thanked the hosts and organizers from Izolyator Group for an exciting and rich program of the visit.