New experts to join SBS in 2020, benefitting European SMEs by increasing coverage and influence in standardisation
Experts from SBS are active in Technical Committees, Sub-Committees and Working Groups in the European Standardisation Organisations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI) and at international level (ISO and IEC). The aim of their participation in such meetings is to contribute to SME-compatible standards.
Guidelines on SME needs in the service industries
SBS takes part in a workshop about Exoskeletons
Technologies for health, rehabilitation and assistance, as well as for quality of life and work, are increasingly becoming reality. Certain areas were explored to respond to some of the most pressing challenges, such as ergonomics and the human factor, solutions, challenges and potentialities of exoskeletons and collaborative robots, exoskeleton-user interaction analysis, assistive technologies, rehabilitation exoskeletons and independent living, and passive exoskeletons for walking.
SBS expert Eng. Nicola Petrone chaired the workshop on the standardisation aspects and on the activities of SBS through its participation in CEN TC 122 on ergonomics. Speakers included Natalia Gil Lopez, SBS Board member, and Gian Luca Salerio, International Standardisation Manager at UNI (the Italian Standardisation Organisation).
SBS welcomes its new Human Resources and Financial Manager
Ms Patrascu comes with more than seven years of experience in credit risk, financial analysis, financial reporting, and credit control (banking field) in her home country Romania, as well as over four years of experience working in the international environment in Belgium. She will be focusing mainly on managing financial and accounting operations for SBS.
For construction products, the HAS consultants have so far received 110 standards for assessment and none of them have been assessed as compliant. Therefore, and due to the outcome of the recent CPR evaluation, the Commission will be looking at alternatives to the current standardisation system in its upcoming review (provisionally to be launched in 2020). It added that due to recent court cases, it will be difficult to introduce some flexibility between now and the potential reviewed CPR. Hopefully, the JIS Action 5 deliverables will bring some stability in these turbulent times.
SBS position paper responding to the applicability of the Radio Equipment Directive (RED)
SBS is calling for a clear legal framework that sets down the foundation for hardware and software disaggregation and liability issues, and provides proposals on the implementation of concrete measures that, if adopted and well implemented, would contribute to the effective ability of SMEs to continue developing software on existing hardware, fostering innovation speed and value generation in the radio equipment market.