Digitalization, Safety, and Ecology in Modern Power Engineering

Digitalization and Safety in Power Engineering: A Practical Approach

In modern power engineering, issues of safety and resource efficiency are coming to the forefront. The webinar speaker, Suleyman Ibragimov, Energy Director at the Pavlik Gold Mining Company, shares practical experience in implementing digital solutions for monitoring personnel certification and tracking personal protective equipment (PPE), and also discusses a resource conservation project.

Automating Electrical Safety Certification Control

One of the key challenges in production is the timely completion of electrical safety knowledge assessments. The presentation details an approach to solving this task using the existing functionality of 1C:ZUP. This made it possible to avoid additional costs for purchasing specialized software.

• What was done: A weekly automatic report was set up in 1C:ZUP, which is sent to department heads. The report uses color coding to highlight employees with valid certification, those due for assessment in 30 days, and those whose certification has expired.
• Why it matters: The human factor is eliminated — no employee falls out of the control scope, and managers can no longer claim ignorance regarding the certification status of their subordinates.
• How it works in practice: HR department employees enter data into the system based on the results of weekly exams. As a result, zero injuries in electrical installations were achieved by the end of 2023 (LTIFR = 0).

Digital Tracking of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

The speaker demonstrates by example how to automate the tracking and control of PPE testing using accessible tools such as Microsoft Excel with macros and online spreadsheets in Bitrix.

• What was done: An electronic PPE logbook was developed with automatic email notifications sent to managers about the need to submit PPE for testing.
• Why it matters: It eliminates the risk of using untested or expired PPE, which directly affects personnel safety when working in electrical installations.
• How it works in practice: A testing engineer enters data into the logbook. A macro automatically scans rows with the "submit for testing" status and generates reminder emails. Bitrix features partial editing capabilities to track the movement of PPE between facilities.

Ecology and Resource Conservation: Optimizing Water Consumption

The third module of the presentation is dedicated to solving the problem of process water shortage at the processing plant without significant capital investments in drilling new wells.

• What was proposed: A scheme for secondary and tertiary use of process water was implemented. After cooling in the desorption process, the water is directed to heat the feedwater for steam generators, and then back into the technological process.
• Why it matters: This avoids the costs of expanding the license and drilling new wells (savings amounted to about 17.3 million rubles), and also reduces the environmental impact.
• How it works in practice: Thanks to the teamwork of energy and technological services, it was possible to achieve savings of up to 450 cubic meters of water per day.

What you will learn from this webinar:

• How to automate the control of electrical safety knowledge assessment deadlines without buying new software?
• How to organize effective tracking and control of PPE testing using Excel and Bitrix?
• How to optimize process water consumption in production and save millions of rubles?
• What difficulties may arise when implementing budget-friendly digital solutions and how to overcome them?