01.12.2015

On 1 December 2015, the AEB Machine Building & Engineering Committee organised an open event “Industrial Engineering: Import Substitution by Localised Production”. 

The event was moderated by Michael Akim, Chairman of the AEB Working Group on Modernisation & Innovations, Vice President, ABB Russia, and Ilya Oshkin, Deputy Chairman of the AEB Machine Building & Engineering Committee, Business Development Director, Dow Corning. Among the speakers were Vladimir Knyaginin, President, Centre of Strategic Studies, Yuri Mikheev, General Director, Povoljskaya Engineering Academy, Mikhail Senichev, Regional Director, Tebodin Eastern Europe B.V., Andrey Sosnovsky, Deputy General Director, VP Solutions Execution Centre, Schneider Electric, Sergey Mishin, Solutions & Lifecycle Services Department Director, Emerson LLC, and Tatiana Guillemette, Sourcing Director Russia & CIS, Alstom Transport RUS. The meeting was devoted to discussion of the topics as following:

• Modern Engineering Methods in Import Substitution Based on the World Best Practices of Cross-Disciplinary Designing & Conception of Digital Production;
• Project & Construction Management in Industrial Plant Creation;
• Integrated Solutions from Design & Supply up to Turnkey Capabilities with Localised Technologies – Schneider Electric for Russia & CIS;
• Localisation in Russia as Emerson Long-term Strategy since 2004;
• Example of Localisation Approach & Opportunities to Use Components Produced by Russian Manufacturers for the Projects on the Global Market.

L–R: Ilya Oshkin, Deputy Chairman of the AEB Machine Building & Engineering Committee, Business Development Director, Dow Corning; Michael Akim, Chairman of the AEB Working Group on Modernisation & Innovations, Vice President, ABB Russia; Vladimir Knyaginin, President, Centre of Strategic Studies.