Prof. Dr. Borut Buchmeister is an EditorinChief of the international scientific journal International Journal of Simulation Modelling (ISSN 17264529), indexed in SCI category for Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering (Q1), and in other important bibliographic databases SCOPUS, INSPEC, TEMA, METADEX, GALE etc.). The journal publishes theoretical and application oriented research papers, dealing with simulation modelling. The journal is published quarterly by University of Technology Vienna in the frame of DAAAM Int. Vienna society (60 papers in 2015).
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Slovenian Project Management Association is the most important professional organization in the field of project management in Slovenia. In the year 2015, Igor Vrečko further led this association, whose management he took over in 2014. In 2015, the association continued with the realization of an ambitious and development-oriented program. In this year under the leadership of Igor Vrečko association successfully completed its financial restructuring and healthy foundations were generated for the sustainable financing of the association’s operational functioning and the implementation of certain development activities. Key development activities were aimed at strengthening the public sector in the field of project management; start of the interest groups’ creation within the Association – Section of researchers and teachers of project management as well as Section of certified project managers; preparation of two new Association’s programs – selection of the Project manager of the year and Rewarding project management development in organizations. In parallel, the preparatory activities for the renovation of the remaining associations’ products and for creation of some new ones were implemented.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees
Prof. Bojan Ačko is a contact person for Republic of Slovenia in the European Association of National Metrology Institutes Euramet for quantity length (TCL). He is designated by MGRTMIRS (additional information on http://www.euramet.org/technical-committees/length/tc-l-contacts/ and http://www.mirs.gov.si/si/delovna_podrocja/mednarodno_sodelovanje/clanstva/). The achievement is important for assuring international traceability, which is opening the SLO industry an economic way of reaching better measurement capabilities and as a consequence proves of quality characteristics of most pretentious products in international market.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
Prof. dr. Bojan Ačko has performed 5 assessments of calibration laboratories and inspection bodies for Slovenian Accreditation (SA). 6 expertizes on technical competence of assessed bodies were issued to SA.
F.10 Improvements to an existing technological process or technology
Bojan Ačko, Borut Buchmeister and Iztok Palčič are members of Editorial Board of SCI journal Advances in production engineering & management. APEM journal is also indexed/abstracted in Scopus (Elsevier), Inspec, EBSCO (Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Engineering Source, Sales & Marketing Source, TOC Premier), ProQuest (CSA Engineering Research Database – Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Materials Business File, Materials Research Database, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts, ProQuest SciTech Collection), and TEMA® (DOMA®) bibliographic databases. Advances in Production Engineering & Management (APEM journal) covers theoretical and application-oriented research in a wide range of production engineering and production management.
C.06 Editorial board membership