Penza, 29 August 2017. PenzaNews. The competitions "Best NC unit operator" within the regional contest "Best in profession" started at the premises of the production association "Elektropribor" in Penza on Tuesday morning, August 29.

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Workers of the production association "Start" named after M. Protsenko, plant "Penzadieselmash", production association "Elektropribor", research and production enterprise "Rubin", LLC "SKBT", LC "Penzatyazhpromarmatura", LC "Radiozavod", and research and production enterprise "MedInzh" will compete for victory and the main prize – a car.

They were divided into two groups and work by turn on four lathes.

According to the deputy head of the regional Ministry of Industry, chairman of the contest commission Mikhail Antonov, it was the first time the nomination was introduced in the programme.

"Both a practical task and a theoretical part are evaluated. The theoretical part traditionally consists of 20 questions on technology, safety and other topics in the form of tests. Evaluating the practical task, the commission takes into account the time, [...] and of course the manufactured part. [...] The participant who will receive the largest number of points will become a winner," he explained.

According to Mikhail Antonov, the participants have 120 minutes to carry out the task, although a standard required time is 70 minutes.

If a person produces a part within 70 minutes, he gets the maximum number of points," the deputy minister specified.

In turn, the assistant of the general director of the production association "Elektropribor", member of the contest commission Vladimir Ruchkov noted that the scheme of the part to produce was created specially for the contest.

"We developed such a scheme that contains all necessary elements. It is not a part that is produced at factories, it is more complicated and it tests knowledge of the contestants," he said.

It is expected that the contest results will be summed up at around 17.00.