International Technological Forum «Russian Standards Week» is kicking into high gear. Workshop «Standard as an instrument of digital transformation» became the follow-up of the session of the Project Technical Committee «SMART Standards» (PTC 711) which was held yesterday in the framework of the International Technological Forum «Russian Standards Week».
Leading experts from the fields of industry and business gathered for the discussion of the matters of digital transformation of standardization on 14th of October, 2021 after carrying out of the Plenary session of the International Technological Forum «Russian Standards Week».
Oleg Petukhov, Deputy Chairman of PTC 711, Deputy Director General
of the Federal State Budgetary Institution «Russian Standardization Institute»
( FSBI «RST») was the moderator of this session.
«Application of digital tools in standardization requires a separate standard which describes main principles of activities in this field. First edition of a fundamental GOST «National standards in digital formats. General provisions and classification» was presented during the session of PTC 711. Nowadays we will continue discussions in terms of the directions of further development of digitalization of processes connected with the development and application of standards», - Oleg Petukhov opened the session by such words.
Vladimir Salamatov, Director General of the LLC «International Trade and Integration», told about the future of digital technical regulation. He also highlighted that Program on digitalization of technical regulation was approved by the Board of the Eurasian Economic Council ( EEC) and that activities of the «Russian Standardization Institute» in terms of transition of the documents of the Federal Information Collection of Standards into XML formats would enable to make development of new standards on the third level of standardization according to the ISO/IEC classification. Vladimir Salamatov proposed to make transition to the digital environment in the course of actualization and revision of the documents from the Federal Information Collection of Standards.
Valentin Gapanovich, President of the non-profit partnership «Union of Industries of Railway Equipment» provided specific examples of the projects on digitalization in the field of railway transport. He also pointed out that it was necessary to conduct digitization on the level of design documentation. Valentin Gapanovich highlighted that interest in digital instruments among business sector was the main thing. The speaker underlined the importance of industry support in the creation of digital ecosystem of requirements management to the products of railway field. Valentin Gapanovich noted the creation of a unique digital area including testing centers and bodies on certification as a real project on digitalization.
Both speakers noted the need for making amendments into the Russian Classification of Products by Economic Activities 2. Transformation of manufacturing processes will be difficult without the above-mentioned changes.
Sergey Tikhomirov, Chairman of PTC 711 «SMART Standards», General Director of the JSC «Kodex» told about SMART standards as innovation management tools of information systems.
Topics of information modelling, maintenance of the life cycle of products, information security were covered during the performance of the speakers in the context of digital transformation in the framework of the session.