The mission of the TIC Council Industrial Life Cycle Services committee (ILCS) is to evaluate relevant opportunities to facilitate cooperation in order to demonstrate the added value of third-party Testing, Inspection and Certification in industrial and emerging services. It pursues to following specific objectives:
- Educate and raise awareness about the added value of the TIC sector towards key stakeholders by:
- a) Establishing an overview of the safety of industrial installations in the geographic markets where TIC Council is present;
- b) Gathering and publishing fact-based material to emphasize the importance of 3rd party safety inspections to the relevant stakeholders
- c) Organising industrial safety related events.
- Liaise with the relevant stakeholders e.g.
- a) International institutions such as ISO, IEC, IAF, ILAC, EC, WB etc.
- b) International industry associations BE, ANSI, EU Turbines, etc.
- c) TIC associations such as ICNDT, EFNDT, ETICS, IACS etc.
- d) European Technology Platform Industrial Safety - ETPIS o European Pressure Equipment Research Council – EPERC
- e) Customers Trade Associations
- Digitalisation of industrial inspections in all business areas.
- a) Actively follow all possible effects of digitalisation on inspections
- b) Make use of the convergence between functional safety and cybersecurity
- c) Promote new inspection technologies and make sure that our industry has a stake in it (AI, data analytics, drones, new NDT methods, risk analysis, remote monitoring, …)
- Develop common TIC methods & principles on qualification for inspectors.
- Develop common TIC positions on pressure equipment and aging installations.
Secretary
Leonardo Rey, Technical Committee Officer - contact address: lrey[A]tic-council.org