TSAMTO, December 2. On December 2, Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport JSC, a member of Rostec State Corporation, Deputy Chairman of SOYUZMASH of Russia, held a meeting of the Committee for the Development of Foreign Trade Activities in relation to military Products of SOYUZMASH of Russia headed by him.
The topic of the next meeting was the after-sales service of military products. Members of the Committee, as well as Vladimir Gutenev, First Vice-President of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, Chairman of the State Duma Commission on Legal Support for the Development of Organizations of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation, who participated in the meeting, discussed topical issues of comprehensive maintenance of Russian arms and military equipment supplied for export, the current state of maintenance, current problems and ways to solve them.
"Today, for Rosoboronexport partners operating or purchasing Russian weapons and military equipment, the issue of their maintenance and maintenance in combat readiness is urgent. Many countries include requirements for managing the life cycle of supplied products even at the stage of forming tender documentation. The global market dictates the need to introduce modern standards that require integrated logistics support, configuration management, quality, life cycle cost assessment, product cataloging," Alexander Mikheev said.
The modern requirements of the global PVN market in terms of providing support at the after-sales stages are based on the standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC/IEC), as well as the documentation of a number of countries and organizations that actually have the status of international.
The product lifecycle management technologies regulated by these standards are aimed at improving the operational efficiency of purchased military equipment and ensuring a higher level of quality of its after-sales support.
"As part of the tasks of improving the efficiency of logistics of Russian military equipment supplied for export, Rosoboronexport maintains a catalog of supplies of exported products that meets all the requirements of the international cataloging system. Its participants are more than 60 countries of the world," Alexander Mikheev added.
During the meeting of the Committee, a decision was made on further work to combine the efforts of Rosoboronexport and other subjects of military-technical cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign states in order to bring the after-sales service system of Russian military equipment to world standards. In particular, the continuation of work on the digitalization of the Russian cataloguing system and the unification of the product catalog jointly with industrial enterprises.
The message is publicly available on the website of Rosoboronexport JSC.
