Conferences & Workshops
ESREL 2008

The lecture of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Aleksandar Jovanovic with subject "Practical steps towards sustainable use of safety performance indicators in EU industry" was presented at the ESREL 2008 Conference, which was organised by the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) and took place in Valencia, Spain on September 22-25, 2008.

Prof. Jovanovic introduced the current projects and activities of Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies (R-Tech), as for example the innovative Key Performance Indicators (KPI) database, the EU project iNTeg-Risk and the goals of the European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management (EU-VRi).

ESREL conferences are principal European fora for presentation and discussion of scientific and technical papers covering safety, reliability and risk-based methods as well as their application in a wide range of industrial and governmental  sectors.
 
API RBI Workshop

Together with API, Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies supported the organization of the:

API RBI Workshop
which took place in Milan on October 27 - 31, 2008
(see more details here)

All Steinbeis "RBi-Stakeholders" were invited.
 
Training & Education
ESPRiT Course #5

The ESPRiT project, under the coordination of Steinbeis R-Tech gives the opportunity for state-of-the-art training and education in various fields of technology transfer.

Course #5 took place in Novi Sad, Serbia on Nov. 3-8, 2008, having as main subject the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) methodologies. Highly motivated attendees from NIS Petroleum industry of Serbia, Electric power industry of Serbia, and Faculty for technical science Novi Sad participated successfully in the course.

More information can be found at the ESPRiT project website.
 
Standardization
DIN logo CEN logo Standardization is the key for the sustainability of new technologies

Steinbeis R-Tech is strongly interested in the fast application and the sustainability of innovative technologies. Towards this direction, R-Tech coordinates with DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) in the preparation of new standards, giving an advantage to the european and german innovations.

As an initiative of R-Tech, the activity of standardizing the EU approach in the area of Risk Based Inspection (RBI) has also lead to the CEN Workshop Agreement document 15740 (Risk based inspection and maintenance procedures for european industry - RIMAP).

For more information you can download the relevant R-Tech leaflet here pdf_icon.gif (available only in German)