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CEN/TC 319 Maintenance
European Committee for Standardization (CEN)

18th Plenary Meeting
17 October 2012, UNI, Milan

UNI office.

The highlight of the day

Franco Santini, chairman of TC 319 "Maintenance" - overwelmed by the complexity of the maintenance process -
"Too complex for standardizing", he said !

4th PILE UP Meeting

11 to 12 October 2012, Antwerp - Belgium

Host: BEMAS

Development of learning outcomes for operators in the process industry.

10th National Congress of TnPM

12 to 14 September 2012
Dalian, China.

The Congress Center.

Dalian - an excellent place for organizing congresses.

Opening: Mr Li Baowen

left: Dr. Zohair ALSARRAJ (KSA), right: Mr. Ming Che Huang, Secretary General of Chinese TPM Association (TW).

With the International Trend of Maintenance, audition has turned to be the most important factor. More and more experts pay their attention to audition systems for helping enterprises to focus on their key performance indexes. Following the international trend closely, experts from Europe, Middle East and Taiwan – Equipment Technicians, Senior Managers, TnPM implementing Talents and Vice Presidents from Chinese Enterprises got together in Dalian (China) to share their experiences under the theme of “Five Rank Six Dimension – Weather Vane of the Advancement of Man-Machine System”.

Presentation of the World Maintenance Forum: Mr Guido Walt

The key note speakers.

TnPM Award 2012

left: Congratulations to the teams by Dr. Zohair ALSARRAJ (KSA) and Dr. Mohammad ALFOUZAN (LB and KSA).

Round Table Discussion

Exhibition

Welcome to best products and new ideas.

Visit of COSCO (Dalian) SHIPYARD

Presentation of COSCO (Dalian) SHIPYARD.

COSCO (Dalian) shipyard was founded in 1992. It occupies 1.2 square km. Beside ship repair and conversation projects, COSCO (Dalian) shipyard also concentrates on worldwide ships' new building, offshore conversation and new building projects.

The TnPM team.

Fun and relaxing after the event

Exciting motor boat trip.

CEN/TC 319, Meeting of the Convenors of Working Groups

Meeting, 07 June 2012, UNI, Milan

La piazza del Duomo

The convenors of CEN/TC 319:

Such an annual meeting is very important for exchanging ideas, information, for setting the right focuses and avoiding contradictions between two standards.

Left: Guido Walt (CH) - WG 9, Franco Santini (IT) - Chairman CEN/TC 319, Roberto Ravaglia (IT), Secretary CEN/TC 319
Right: Piet Backer (NL) - WG 11, Kari Komonen (FI) - WG 10, Jan Franlund (SE) - WG 8.

CEN/TC 319, Working Group 9 "Qualification of Maintenance Personnel"

Meeting, 06 June 2012, UNI, Milan

After the last meeting in Milan on 31 January 2012, the preliminary draft "Maintenance – Qualification of maintenance personnel" was circulated within all CEN members. A lot of comments were sent in from UK, CZ, TR and SE.
Only half of the comments could be discussed. Another meeting will be necessary for concluding this improvement phase.

Jan Franlund (in paying position) offered the wine for celebrating the Swedish National Day.
Franco Santini (left) assisted as Chairman CEN/TC 319.

OMAINTEC 2012- Conference and Exhibition
10th Operation and Maintenance Conference in the Arab Countries

07 to 10 May 2012, Hilton Habtoor Grand Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon

Welcome to the President of the Republic of Lebanon represented by
H.E. Mr. Ghasi Al-Aridi Minister of Public Works and Transport.

Grand Opening: The Spring of Maintenance !

The Conference under the theme "Putting Maintenance Auditing in Focus" consisted of an outstanding program, well organized panel discussions and instructive training workshops.

Left: Conference Chairman Dr. Zohair Bin Mohammad Al Sarraj; Right: Omaintec Institut Chairman Dr. Mohammad Al-Fouzan.

Left: Eng. Lamal El-Zain, SAUDI OGER LTD. Sponsors's speech;
Right: Guest Of Honor H.E. Dr. Issam Sharaf, Former Egypt Prime Minister.

The President of the Republic of Lebanon represented by
H.E. Mr. Ghasi Al-Aridi Minister of Public Works and Transport.

Exhibition Opening

Left: Booth presentations; Right: Interview.

Left: Booth of the Technical and Vocational Training Corperation, KSA; Right: Booth of the Arabian PipeCoating Company.

Left: Stratecic partner and sponsors; Right: Collaborators.

Visite of HE the President of the Republic of Lebanon, General Michel Sleiman

Many thanks for the high patronage of his excellency the President of the Republic of Lebanon, General Michel Sleiman.

Visite of the Lebanese Prime Minister Najeeb Mikati

In the cabinet of the Prime Minister Najeeb MIKATI
The delegation after a fruitful discussion about the importance of maintenance.

After the visit in front of the Palace.

Gala Dinner

Left: Dr. Ali Zuashkiani (CA), Ben Stevens (CA), Dr. Jamal El Chaar (CH) and Prof. Andrew Starr (UK);
Right: UK-cluster Chris Potter (UK), Alan Wilson (UK) and Peter Willmott (UK).

Distinction for Eng. Mohammed Al-Rafaa, National Grid SA (SA) for his outstanding presentations.

The Gala Dinner was a real come-to-gether event.
2nd left: The Ambassador from Sudan; 2nd right: Mr Li Baowen (CN).

3rd PILE UP Meeting

23 to 24 April 2012,
Sofia - Bulgaria

Host
NAVET - National Agency for Vocational Education and Training

Sofia - Bulgary.

The participants of the meeting - in front: Mrs. Liliana Dombalova from NAVET (BG).

Actually, 2 working groups are developing task based learning outcomes for operators and maintenance technicians in the process industry. ECVET concepts and principles are applied.
ECVET (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training) is a European instrument for promoting LifeLong Learning (LLL) European-wide.
Mobility and qualification are key-issues.

Opening of the meeting by Mr. Devan Pushkarov, Director NAVET.

Presentation by Mrs. Jana Vasileva, Chairman of the Directorate NAVET about Licensing of VET-Centers.

Presentation by Ms. Bonka Christova, Expert in the Directorate NAVET about State educational standards.

Visit of Sofia and the Boyana church

Right: Boyana church with outstanding and well-preserved frescoes from 11th and 13th century (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

2nd EURIAC Meeting

27 to 29 March 2012,
Jakobstad - Finland

Host
OPTIMA

Gulf of Bothnia.

Opening of the meeting by Mrs. Pernilla Öhberg, Project Manager.

EURIAC is developing a stand-alone educational module in automation.
The first step of the project was to analyse the market. More than 200 questionnaires were sent out. 64 questionnaires were answered and sent back.

Following branches were considered:
Automation (4) - Construction (1) - Diagnostics (2) - Food (7) - Hospitals (6) - Metallurgy (6) - Logistics/packaging (1) - Maintenance Services (4) - Pharma/Chemical/Petrochemical (6) - Poste (2) - Power (2) - Public Management (3) Pulp and Paper (2) - Railway/Public Transport (8) - Ship-yards (2) - Universities (8).

A first evaluation showed following Top Priorities:
- Fault finding in PLC controlled systems
- Motors, driver units and servo techniques
- General safety rules and basic safety systems
- Safety systems with active components.

Optima building.

Visit of the Artic Museum NANOQ

NANOK ARTIC MUSEUM

The word "NANOQ" is Greenlandic and means polar bear.

Pentti Kornqvist and the polar bear NANOQ.

Pentti Kronqvist is the founder of this museum. He participated in several expeditions to the Arctic regions. In 1981, Kronqvist led a Finnish-Norvegian expedition that crossed Greenland's inland glacier from shore to shore in 26 days (source: Nanoq-Guide).

Pentti Kronqvist showing two repeating bolt action rifles designd and produced by Friedrich Vetterli (Switzerland).
These riffles were used during the Finish civil war.

CEN/TC 319, Workig Group 9 "Qualification of Maintenance Personnel"

Meeting, 31 January 2012, UNI, Milan

La piazza del Duomo

The scope of the meeting was to finish the preliminary draft "Maintenance – Qualification of maintenance personnel" for preparing the future prEN 15628.
There were delegates from Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.

The group still in good shape.

A short break.

2nd PILE UP Meeting

19 to 20 Januar 2012,
Dresden - Germany

Host
Sächsische Bildungsgesellschaft für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe Dresden mbH

Military History Museum in Dresden, star architect Daniel Libeskind

PILE UP

PILE UP is a Leonardo project running under the Tranfer of Innovation Programme and financially supported by the European Commission.

The participants of the meeting.

The European Process Industry

Competence levels required by the labour market is increasing due to technological innovation and progress. This ia also more than true for the European Process Industry. Many employees work at lower skilled levels. However, the European industry needs more and more employees that are able to function at EQF level 3/4 (EQF = European Qualification Framework).

Some companies in the sector also struggle with shortages of skilled workers. To fill this gap, they attract employees from other EU countries. However, due to the differences in VET systems and diplomas it is difficult to understand the level of knowledge, skills and competences of foreign workers.

The development of National Qualification Frameworks and their relation with the European Qualification Framework (EQF) would facilitate the understanding of levels of qualifications. The European Chemical Employers Group and the European Mine, Chemical & Energy Workers Federation started a corresponding initiative.

The PILE UP project

To give employees the possibility to acquire new skills for piling up their career, is a major challenge for this project. To facilitate this process, the Pile-Up project aims to implement units of learning outcomes, based on ECVET, which could be used for the validation of competences.

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Visit of the laboratories of the Sächsische Bildungsgesellschaft für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe Dresden mbH

The target of the visit was to understand the learning processes and procedures implemented successfully by the Sächsische Bildungsgesellschaft für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe Dresden mbH for achieving outstanding profiles for All-Round Process Operators and Maintenance Technicians.

The Chemical Laboratories.

The ChemTec Laboratories.

The ChemTec Laboratories.

The ChemTec Laboratories.

CREDCHEM

CREDCHEM was a project for putting the ECVET-recommendations into practice. CREDCHEM started in 2009 and will finish beginning of 2012.

Presentation of the CREDCHEM project by Mrs. Barbara Schlegel, Techn. Uni Dresden.

The aim was to establish a sustainable mobility network, by
- defining learning outcomes based on work tasks
- designing units of learning outcomes geared to improve mobility in the chemical sector
- agreeing on common standards for carrying out and assessment based on mutual trust and quality
- involving new partners from other countries.

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