Mikhail Mishustin meets students of technical universities and colleges

A meeting between Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and students of technical universities and colleges took place at the 25th edition of the Metalloobrabotka International Exhibition.  

From the transcript:

Mikhail Mishustin: Good afternoon, dear students, bosses, rectors, ministers! We are very pleased to see here students of the country's leading technical universities.

Together with Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and our colleagues, we have just seen the most advanced developments that our industry, state companies and private companies are currently making. This is machinery is very different: metal-cutting machine tools, mass-produced robotics, production automation, additive technologies, and CNC machine control systems. Everything that forms the basis of today's production.

We visited this exhibition a few years ago. And today, when I was walking round the stands, I told our ministers that I remembered this exhibition in the late 1980s. It was famous in Moscow – the Metalloobrabotka exhibition. As students of a machine-tool institute, we visited it regularly. There were our domestic machines: grinding, milling, and turning. There were also foreign machines.

But today I am particularly pleased with the availability of Russian machine tools in almost all areas. Today we showed new five-axis machines, machining systems, laser machines, and CNC racks. Several companies are already producing them. Look at the robot manipulators, which we have never even thought of before. And the software for controlling flexible automated production is also domestic today. This is very pleasing to see.

It was a pleasure to see some of our alumni among the CEOs and graduates of our educational institutions.

Press Service, EXPOCENTRE AO

Source: the website of the Government of Russia