30 Years of the International Scientific Conference Heavy Machinery

Abstract

The first conference “Heavy Machinery” was held in Kruševac and Vrnjačka Banja (Serbia) from 8 to 10 October 1993. The conference is triennial so that the eleventh one is in 2023. At the beginning, the main thematic fields were: Design and calculations, Production technologies, Testing and control. New scientific knowledge, fast technological development, lifting sanctions on our country and the globalization of the world market caused significant changes in science and research. Accordingly, the thematic fields of the conferences have been adjusted. Their number has increased so that the papers from the last conference were classified into seven scientific fields: Earth-moving and Mining machines and Transportation systems, Railway vehicles, Production technologies, Automatic control, robotics and fluid technique, Applied mechanics, Thermal technique and environment protection and Civil engineering and materials. This year’s conference covers similar fields. Thirty years of tradition are also an opportunity to sum up the results from the previous conferences as well as to establish the directions of further research, the place and the role of the conference “Heavy Machinery”, regarding both the development of the faculty and the influence on a wider scientific community.