Vol.1, No 9, 2002 pp. 1287 - 1287
28TH HIPNEF 2002
In keeping with respect of a long tradition of this expert manifestation,
which has been held since the beginning of the 1950s, this year, the Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering in Nis, in collaboration with the Association
of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers and Technicians of Serbia (SMEITS),
organised 28th Scientific and expert meeting on hydropneumautic automatisation
and new technologies – HIPNEF 2002, with international participation.
The meeting was held from October 2 to 4 at the Breza hotel in Vrnjacka
Banja, under the auspices of Federal secretariat for science and development,
Serbian Ministry of science, technologies and development, and the city
of Nis. It was opened by Serbian Minister of science, technologies and
development, professor Dragan Domazet, Ph.D., who delivered a notable lecture
on The development of Serbia as an innovative society.
HIPNEF 2002 was conceived with an intention of gathering a large number
of experts and researchers, who would, by their announcements and achieved
results, as well as by their active participation in the Meeting, contribute
to a successful exchange of experiences, and, thereby, to the creation
of conditions for a faster and more efficient transfer of the application
of new techniques and technologies.
The main focus of the subjects raised at previous meetings on hydraulics,
pneumatics, electrical engineering, electronics, and fluids, was on this
occasion widened to include certain new fields. Thus, at this year's HIPNEF,
themes from new disciplines are present; they are more or less related
to the basic orientation, and have to do primarily with hydropneumatic
automatisation and new technologies.
The papers registered and presented at this year's HIPNEF are scientific
and expert analyses of characteristic cases, experimental results, or applications
of new or familiar theoretical postulates to the solution of topical problems
in the design or use of technological equipment in manufacturing system
conditions. What must be emphasised are the papers' authors, who presented
their experiences and views as to the maintenance of technological means,
by applying the above mentioned techniques in control processes and mechanical
engineering in general.
Also, the researches whose results are incorporated into a certain
number of papers presented at this Meeting were financed by Serbian Ministry
of science, technologies and development, and they represent parts of projects
which are at present being realised.
Themes of interest to small and medium (private) enterprises were also
discussed at this meeting, with the participation of representatives of
such enterprises.
A wide scientific and expert programme, including over a hundred papers,
was published in a compilation, where, apart from the introductory ones,
the papers are divided into seven thematic sections, while bearing the
interdisciplinary nature of a majority of papers in mind.
Throughout HIPNEF, the participants were able to visit a specialised
exhibition of equipment and components, which mainly originated from the
sponsors. They wanted to participate in the meeting in this form as well,
thus acquainting those present with their new manufacturing programmes,
new technologies, and the directions of further development.
Finally, the large number of participants, coupled with the subjects
covered at the Meeting, have justified the organisers' efforts, so that
the goal of making this year's 28th HIPNEF 2002 better and larger than
the previous ones has been achieved.
Prof. M. Stoiljković
