Trends in the pressure vessel industry
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2022-12-20 11:29
Entering the development period of economic globalization, an inevitable trend of economic globalization is the internationalization of standards. The United States and Europe and other major economic entities are competing for the dominance of standards as the main goal of the competition for the market, and have invested a lot of human and material resources to introduce new content in the standard technology.
1, the internationalization of industry standards: standard internationalization is the standard technical content compatible with international standards, rather than simply copy all the content of international standards. The international standards should be systematically analyzed and studied, conforming to international standards in terms of basic requirements, highlighting their own unique technologies and management methods in special issues, and eventually achieving mutual recognition between standards in a phased manner.
Convergence: the rapid development of information technology, so that the rapid spread of advanced technology around the world, the development of technical standards around the technology is bound to be accepted by the users of technology, so the worldwide pressure vessel technology requirements are developing in the direction of unity.
Compatibility: Although the technical content of the technical standards of the countries in the world is not exactly the same, each country has made it a goal to make their standards compatible with other standards in order to achieve mutual recognition of the standards. asme (Japanese technical standards) conducted a research project in 1999 to thoroughly analyze the PED (European technical standards) and compare the ESR of the PED with VIII-1 for design, construction and Administration requirements for a systematic comparison to prove that the ASME standard can meet the requirements of PED after adding some elements.
Tradeability: Standards are an integral part of international trade rules and an important basis for arbitration of trade disputes. Dominating international standards will facilitate the acquisition of huge market shares and economic benefits The essence of implementing international standardization strategies is to compete for control of international markets.
2, technical regulations and technical standards between the coordination: national technical regulations is the state to ensure the safety of pressure vessel products and the establishment of mandatory regulations, any product within its jurisdiction must comply with its safety principles; technical standards are recommended to ensure the safety of pressure vessels corresponding to the technical indicators of product quality, but the technical indicators specified in the standard should be consistent with the safety of technical regulations Principles, can guide the design, construction, inspection and acceptance of pressure vessels, is the construction of pressure vessels and trade in the technical evaluation platform. Therefore, technical standards and technical regulations should be generally coordinated, but in the role and other aspects are different.
Principle and engineering: technical regulations govern the most basic safety requirements of the product; standards in addition to meeting these basic requirements, but also to specify the specific methods and conformity indicators to meet the basic safety requirements in engineering. The number of technical regulations is very small, but the jurisdiction is very wide; the coordinated standards with it will involve a series of technical standards content such as materials, design calculation methods, forming, welding, non-destructive testing, pressure testing, etc.
Stability and timeliness: national technical regulations are part of the country's administrative regulations, and the relative stability of its content remains unchanged to the benefit of the industry's safety management; while the harmonized standards are technical rules to achieve product safety and quality, to keep pace with the times, reflecting the comprehensive capabilities of the industry and the development of the corresponding technology at any time.
Therefore, the study adjusts the coordination between technical regulations and technical standards, clear technical regulations and technical standards to define the scope, should attract the full attention of the relevant state agencies.
3, industrial marketization and production specialization; competition will inevitably lead to changes in the production model, the formation of a core business-led, coordinated development of large and medium-sized enterprises, and hierarchical competition in the industrial organization structure. Market support and specialized production is the main pattern of the future pressure vessel industry, but also the direction of development; strengthen the standardization of work to help achieve specialized collaboration, this emphasis on market support and specialized production of industrial organization must be a high degree of technical unity as a prerequisite, standardization is precisely the basis for achieving technical unity, so the standard is the bridge and link of specialized collaboration.
To sum up: the development of pressure vessel body, professional technology and industry is mutual influence and mutual promotion. Only on the basis of material, metallurgy, processing technology, testing and other technologies have been substantially developed, the safety and reliability of the pressure vessel can be improved, and the performance of the pressure vessel will promote the improvement of industry standards, which in turn will further promote the continued development of the pressure vessel expertise and the body. Reasonable handling of the relationship between the three, will make the pressure vessel industry into a healthy, orderly development of the track.
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