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

Reality in industry, thinking of maintenence approach in many cases, is disproportional with available technologies and knowledge. This situation is decreasing company´s competitiveness or decreasing the possible or projected profit. In the global market, when resources show stable or increasing prices, and final product price drop, future is...

By Haris Trobradović

This paper summarizes the experiences of many organizations in migrating from an asset care (maintenance) culture to a whole life cycle asset management approach, and the benefits obtained from this transformation. It will explain the evolution of the modern discipline, and the practical steps that can be taken to break down the barriers between de...

By John Woodhouse

Mixed-mode fracture in delamination test utilizing double cantilever specimens loaded with bending moments is investigated in the paper. FEM simulations are performed using cohesive zone model where different configurations of test loadings and two critical fracture energy values, ie. two fracture process zone lengths, are considered. Fracture ener...

By Josip Kačmarčik, Pejo Konjatić, Aleksandar Karač

The article gives an overview of techniques for making different types of time plans. Their advantages and disadvantages due to the requirements for maintenance planning of technical systems were analyzed. Reference is made to the possibility of increasing the efficiency of maintenance by applying suitable planning techniques and optimization solut...

By Držislav Vidaković, Zorislav Kraus, Hrvoje Glavaš

Establishing rational system for waste tyre management in Bosnia and Herzegovina would represent significant contribution to environmental protection and usage of alternate energy sources. Waste tyres represent valuable raw material which can be recycled by mechanical and thermal processes. In European Union 80% of all produced waste tyres are used...

By Jovan Sredojević, Maja Krajišnik