It is obvious that higher education throughout Europe within the Bologna Process has been, and still is, undergoing serious and far-reaching reform processes with the ultimate goal of creating a European area of higher education. Quality assurance has been identified as one of the key segments of this process. In a series of communiques from minist...

By Ibrahim Plančić, Malik Čabaravdić

Higher education institutions are special organizational and business systems with an important role in the system of overall social reproduction. Accordingly, the activity itself, the mission, the forms of organization, the main contours of the process, structure, outcomes, and constraints are, to a greater or lesser extent, determined by the supe...

By Safet Brdarević, Nermina Zaimović-Uzunović

Maintenance has been changing over the period. Today we are moving to the fourth generation of Industry, where we are talking about great changes in field of production, work and understanding thereof. With device integration we will take care of the integration and exchange of information between machines and devices. Everything we start with word...

By Peter Krebelj

A brake disc is exposed to various loads during its operational life, which cause braking surface wearing, disc deformation, structural changes, residual stresses etc. The goal of this paper is to find out the main cause of fractures on braking surface, by measuring flatness and wear of braking surface, and to give main guidelines to prolong the op...

By Amel Karić, Samir Lemeš

For about sixty years principles of TQM, Kaizen, Six Sigma and others continuous improvement strategies (CIS) play a vital role in quality engineering and management. They are presented in many books, scientific and professional journals, consulting companies offers and first of all in the Internet as an easy tool (almost a patent) for an efficient...

By Adam Hamrol

Academic staff evaluation poses a unique challenge in higher education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The established practice of selfrepresenting the absolute authority in public higher education institutions attenuated by the emergence of private higher education institutions where the employers sought for the results, expressed their own, as ...

By Enes Dedić

The paper explained meaning and importance of the impact of construction machinery due to the specifics of their use. Describes how organization of maintenance activities of machines on construction sites and points to the impact this has on their performance. Accent was placed on possibilities of improving existing practice of building contractors...

In the paper stress analysis of rotary kiln support rollers is conducted. Stress state in the support rollers is caused by temperature gradient, shrinkfit connection between shaft and roller and by the contact with kiln ring. The stress analysis is done analytically and numerically, and the results obtained are compared....

By Alma Žiga, Josip Kačmarčik

Haulage of material is one of the basic operational phases of the production process in Haljinići Pit. The monitoring and problem-solving in thisvsegment are of crucial significance for achievement of all planned quantities.Production activities, manner of exploitation, type of equipment used and a number of other factors involved in this activity ...

By Kasim Bajramović, Jovan Sredojević

Regional incineration process by regional landfill site Mošćanica is a chance for municipality of Zenica and municipalities nearby. The obligations of the municipality towards EU regulations could be fulfilled by building one incinerator plant. Current waste management strategies and (role beaks) adopted for dumping waste by Bosnia and Herze...

By Semir Selimović