APP presents its joint developments with KAMAZ at Tatarstan Academy of Sciences



Science and Business: Building Longstanding Partnerships was the title of a strategic dialogue session held in Kazan.
Among the participants were Head the of Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) Yury Zubov, Executive Director for Cooperation between Science and Business at Rostec Corporation Yelena Druzhinina, President of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Rifkat Minnikhanov, Rector of Kazan National Research Technical University Kirill Okhotkin, Vice-Rector for Economic and Strategic Development of APP Marat Safiullin, Director of the Naberezhnye Chenly Institute of APP Andrey Keller, and others.
The questions on the agenda were internship-format on-site PhD courses, science and production partnerships, new campus construction, etc.
Andrey Keller and Chief Constructor of the Technological Center of KAMAZ Airat Faskhutdinov presented their paper Industrial State Contracts: Cooperation of KAMAZ and APP. They spoke about APP’s Cyber Auto Tech school, founded in cooperation with KAMAZ in 2022. Its priorities are intelligent transport systems and vehicles, low-carbon emission vehicles, and intelligent manufacturing.
In 2025, APP and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia signed several funding contracts on applied research in the following topics: “CAD of metal-cutting tools”, “Technology of precision transverse wedge rolling of shaft forgings”, “Technology of laser welding of rotating parts”, “Development of a prototype of a new generation automatic electrothermal conveyor line designed for heat treatment of fasteners”.
The CAD of Metal-Cutting Tools project aims to create a pilot versions of said CAD. It will based on a client-server architecture, include integration with CAD Compass 3D, support parametric modeling and use of IO containers. “An expected result is not just a software tool, but actually reducing design timeframes more than twice. For our industrial partner, it means a significant decrease in spending,” explained Keller.
He specifically mentioned the project of precision transverse wedge rolling of shaft forgings. The development is aimed at producing defect-free forgings with minimal allowances through digital design and modernization of existing equipment. The economic benefit for the industry is a reduction in the cost of auto parts by reducing defects and eliminating expensive machining.
Each of the projects is to be implemented at KAMAZ.