Events

Key topics

• The future of Russia's macroeconomy
• New tax legislation 2025
• Forecasts for the metalworking, machine building and machine tool industry market
• Q&A session

Key topics

• How to achieve technological superiority through industrial cooperation and cross-sectoral interaction of enterprises
• Macroeconomics in metalworking: drivers of industrial development of Russia's machiney manufacturing and metalworking industries
• What are the strategically important challenges for the metalworking market in 2024 and 2025?
• The Russian metalworking market 2024: market capacity, opportunities for the development of domestic and imported production means – machine tools, machinery and equipment – taking into account the competitive factor of supplies from Asian countries
• Principles and approaches: how to achieve 100% product quality and efficiency of metalworking production by implementing domestic software that manages the quality processes
• Who are industrial consumers of metalworking products 2025: what are their conditions and requirements to products, and how they change over time?
• What is the state of government support for machine building and metalworking enterprises: preferential taxation and subsidy programmes, targeted loans for R&D and modernisation of production facilities?
• How the import substitution programme of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade works: how to get into it
• Forecasts and trends in the development of the Russian metalworking and machine tool industries
• The state of the metalworking equipment market for 2024. Government decree No. 1224
• Research and inventions for life: priorities, technologies, exhibitions

Key topics

• The current state and trends in the investment potential of the Russian metalworking and machine building industry
• How Russian manufacturers can look for partners inside Russia to replace imports with domestically produced products
• Principles of machine-building enterprise operation in localisation projects in Russia: legislation and new regulations
• Main problems of localisation of metalworking production in Russia
• Russian territories with actively developing localisation projects
• Tax system that works in the process of industrial localisation
• Trends in localisation by industry segment
• How to reduce machine-building production costs (including logistics costs) during localisation

Key topics

• In 2024, what is the supply and demand in the labour market for mechanical engineering and related areas, and the metalworking and machine tool industry as a whole. Forecast for 2025-2026.
• What government measures are available to support the training of technical and engineering personnel on which HR managers of metalworking plants can rely?
• What kind of a beast is ‘motivation’: what, apart from money, interests employees in conditions of permanent economic and geopolitical instability?
• Mentoring: how to create a flow of qualified personnel, increase productivity, reduce defective products and shorten the time to entry into the profession
• How salaries of workers, engineers, managers, and other specialists in large cities and regions of Russia in metalworking and machine building are changing
• What are the most effective ways of searching and selecting candidates for labour and engineering professions in Russia in 2024?
• What is ‘live regulation’: how does the system of instructions and factory standards work in an environment of employee turnover?
• Small and medium-sized enterprises' experience in overcoming staff shortages: a breakdown of only workable solutions

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• Trends, state and prospects for the development of the 3D metalworking industry in Russia: how the sanctions have affected the domestic market
• Promising research and developments in the field of additive manufacturing and 3D modelling in machine building
• Government support for the additive technology industry: what is in demand in the real sector of the economy
• New technological solutions for 3D printing for metalworking
• What can be done to train professionals in maintenance of 3D machines?
• The most promising areas for the development of additive technologies, taking into account import substitution
• Standardisation and normative and technical support of additive construction production
• What materials can be used in the future for manufacturing of technological 3D products?
• Main consumers of 3D printing products in Russia: potential and challenges of entering new markets

Key topics

• Which new innovative technologies and equipment will prevail in the welding sector in 2025
• Current regulatory framework around welding 2024/25: innovations and new regulations
• Key challenges and ways to overcome them in the welding industry
• Normative and legal regulation of welding operations at hazardous production facilities
• National and interstate standardisation in the field of welding. Role of standards in ensuring innovation, quality and import substitution
• Complex solutions in welding production
• Modernisation and robotisation of welding production
• Production of welding materials and welding solutions

Key topics

• From strategy to machines: how to choose the right investment projects for a machine building or metalworking company based on its limited production, financial and administrative resources
• How to provide financing in the times of high credit rates: where to find money for your project when credit has become prohibitively expensive
• A breakdown of the Key to Success concept: why it is critical to think through operational processes from the beginning and how to create a clear project concept
• Planning and budgeting under uncertainty: how to manage risk and be prepared for change
• Principles of project documentation management to avoid mistakes and unnecessary costs
• Specific features of digitalisation projects in metalworking
• How to stay on schedule and on budget at the project implementation stage
• Standardisation and control: how to consolidate project results and get an economic effect

Key topics

• Specifics of a crisis situation and selection of adequate responses
• Principles of efficiency used for designing the organisational structure of a metalworking/machine building enterprise
• How to work more effectively with the financial model of a metalworking enterprise instead of jumping around multi-page and uninformative budgets
• Why revenue growth does not mean profit growth at all, and sometimes even leads to increased losses
• How to solve the eternal problem of lack of operating capital, especially in conditions of expensive borrowed funds
• What managerial decisions can be applied by the head of a metalworking/machinery enterprise in extreme conditions