At the KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology special attention is paid to the state-of-the-art management methods, which are supported by the implemented and certified Quality Management System according to:

Quality management system according to PN-EN ISO 9001:2015-10 Standard obligatory at the whole Institute
Management system according to PN-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018-02 Standard obligatory within the range of accredited tests
Management system according to PN-EN ISO/IEC 17065:2013-03 Standard obligatory within the range of products certification

Basing on the Act on conformity assessment system, the Polish Accreditation Centre has assessed:

 COMPETENCES, INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY IN THE SCOPE OF LABORATORY TESTS AND HAS GIVEN THREE INSTITUTE LABORATORIES THE ACCREDITATION FOR A DETREMINED SCOPE OF TESTS:

• Laboratory of Tests (AB 039) in the scope of testing products and construction materials, including powered roof supports, props and legs, hydraulic components and other construction products.

       current certificate + scope of accreditation (AB 039)

• Laboratory of Applied Tests (AB 665) in the scope of tests for a certification of machines and equipment, designed for an operation in the areas where an explosion hazard occurs, in the scope of the standards harmonised with the ATEX Directive, tests of machines in the scope of the standards harmonised with the Machinery Directive, tests of electric equipment in the scope of the standards harmonised with the Low Voltage Directive LVD, tests of noise and vibrations in the environment as well as generated by machines and equipment, environmental and climatic tests and tests of physical properties of products made of plastics and rubber.

       current certificate + scope of accreditation (AB 665)

• Laboratory of Material Engineering and Environment (AB 910) in the scope, among others, tests of toys, sport and recreation equipment, tests of consumers’ products for people, incorporating chemical and mechanical tests, non-destructive tests of products and construction materials.

        current certificate + scope of accreditation (AB 910)

  COMPETENCES, INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY IN THE SCOPE OF CERTIFICATION OF PRODUCTS

Division of Attestation Tests Certifying Body (AC 023) possesses an authorization of products’ certifying body in the scope of conformity certification for conformity marks of machines and equipment as well as toys.

current certificate + scope of accreditation (AC 023)

The obtained accreditation certificates, issued by the Polish Accreditation Centre, are the basis for an authorization granted by the Ministry of Economy, and then for a notification, submitted to the European Commission in the scope of the European Union Directives:

• Directive No. 2006/42/UE on basic requirements for machines,
• Directive No. 2014/34/UE on a harmonisation of the member states’ legislation, concerning equipment and protective systems designed for use in the potentially explosive atmosphere,
• Directive No. 2009/48/UE on basic requirements for toys.

KOMAG POSSESSES A STATUTE OF NOTFIFIED BODY No. 1456

ATEX Notification                           SAFETY OF TOYS Notification                 MACHINERY Notification

To guarantee that the services are rendered by KOMAG in the impartial, objective and ethical manner, the Institute has established the Policy of Impartiality, which explicitly determines principles which drive our Body while conducting the certification activity.

current Policy of Impartiality

To guarantee a cohesion of management system in the Institute the processes, procedures and activity practices, used in the organization have been combined by a construction and an implementation in the whole Body of the quality management system on the basis of the ISO 9001 standard. An objective assessment of the third party yielded a crop of obtaining by KOMAG a certificate of the Polish Centre for Tests and Certification No. 295/9/2017 in the scope of:

“Scientific projects, research-and-development projects, designing and author’s supervision of machines and equipment as well as expert work.”

current certificate

A continuous training, an improvement of employees’ professional qualifications, continual survey of processes realized in the Body and their improvement, defining joint the Quality Policy and a continuous supervision of the Director’s Plenipotentiary for Integrated Management System, of a realization of the basic assumptions of the Quality Policy and quality objectives, causes that the whole of quality activities is directed to a Customer’s satisfaction, an efficiency increase and a continuous quality increase of KOMAG services, which constitutes a pillar of permanent successes and of a development of our Institute.

current Quality Policy

Director’s Plenipotentiary for Integrated Management System

 Romana Zając, M.Sc. Eng.

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The institutions, from which KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology originated, have been subjected to complicated organizational and restructuring changes. The origin of our Centre goes back to the Central Design Bureau in Swietochlowice and the Mining Mechanization Plant of the Central Institute of Natural Fuels in Katowice, established in 1945.

A development of the mining industry has caused that the Central Design Bureau was transformed into the Design Bureau of Mining Machines, which after some time took the name of the Central Bureau for Mining Machines’ Design, having its seat in Gliwice. The next step involved an establishment of the Experimental and Design Institute of the Mining Industry in 1957, which in the same year took the name of the Design and Mechanical Works of the Mining Industry (Zaklady Konstrukcyjno-Mechanizacyjne Przemyslu Weglowego – ZKMPW). An establishment of ZKMPW created a possibility for a development of the research and design basis for underground mining of coal. Scientific and research projects in the domain of coal cutting and loading processes, transportation of the run-of-mine, roof supports as well as tests of colliery electrification systems and the electric equipment of mining machines were developed. A development of ZKMPW included an establishment of the Mining Electronic Plant in Tychy, “Elektrometal” in Cieszyn and the Works of Cybernetic Mining Systems in Biskupice. The M-300 Experimental Mine and the “Jan” Automated Colliery were taken over. Then the Construction Works of Experimental Machines was created next to the M-300 Experimental Mine. The Training Centre for Machinery Operators became transformed into the Staff Improvement Centre. The Construction Plant of Experimental Machines, the M-300 Experimental Mine and the Staff Improvement Centre were separated at the beginning of 1975 and the Central Project and Design Bureau of Mining Machines – KOMAG in Gliwice, having the status of a research and development centre, was established then.

This Bureau was organizationally subjected to the POLMAG Association of Mining Machinery Producers, which associated all the Polish factories of mining machines and equipment. POLMAG enabled to establish close links between machinery designing processes and a production of machines and equipment. In fact KOMAG became the design, research and development basis for all the factories, incorporated in the POLMAG Association. On their premises KOMAG established its local branches (FAMUR, FAZOS, TAGOR, RYFAMA and GEORYT).

Then the ORTEM Design and Technological Centre for Mining Machines was incorporated in and the scope of KOMAG’s activity was broadened by the issues of manufacturing techniques of mining machines and equipment as well as by the issues of production organization and management. It was also decided to change the name for the Design and Technological Centre of Mining Machines and afterwards, when the following reorganization was introduced, for the KOMAG Mining Mechanization Centre. Since 1st January 2009 KOMAG acts as Institute of Mining Technology KOMAG.

MISSION:       

Innovative solutions for economy.

VISION:           

Research and development centre of organizational and proprietary structure adapted to the  market activity in the European Research Area and of the organizational culture creating a friendly climate for generating new ideas and realizing innovative activities, i.e. transforming new ideas into new products.

STRATEGIC AREAS:

• Research potential.
• Human resources and scientific development of employees.
• Goal - oriented management system.
• Marketing activities.