UNE Magazine, March edition now available

The latest issue of the UNE magazine is now available

• Annual standardisation plan for 2021. It is aligned with the Recovery, Transition and Resilience Plan of Spain, España Puede (Spain Can), in its four cross-cutting pillars: Ecological transition, digital transformation, territorial and social cohesion, and equality.
  

• Standards, strategic tools in economic recovery projects. All these initiatives should consider the leverage effect that the development of new standardisation can bring to their objectives, projecting them in the longer term and the entire sector they are intended for.
  

• What the members are saying: Interview with Andreu Puñet, CEO of the Spanish Association of Petroleum Products Operators (AOP). "Standards will have an even greater role in technological innovation applied to the energy transition."
  

• New version of the precast concrete manhole standard. The new UNE 127917 on concrete manholes and inspection chambers incorporates changes that reflect the technological evolution of the sector over the last five years. These elements are subjected to strict factory controls to ensure their quality and safety.
  

• Standardisation in action: CTN 28/SC2 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The exponential growth of the drone sector has resulted in the introduction of standards for the efficient development of these devices with safety and privacy guarantees.
  

• Standards in our lives: Drones. Emergency management, traffic control, maintenance of industrial infrastructures and cultural events are just four of the areas in which drones are being used.
  

• E-TECH: Five things everyone needs to know about quantum computing. The power of the retrospective is what allows us to understand the full meaning of advances in science and technology, the first powered flight, for example, lasted only 12 seconds and covered less than 40 metres.
  

• E-TECH: Ensure IT and OT supply chains with international standards and conformity assessment. During 2020, the US government was attacked in one of the world's largest security violations. Cybercriminals accessed a series of federal agencies. It is believed that were targeting the energy sector, which could have had potentially devastating consequences.
  

The digital edition includes links to the ISO and IEC magazines and to the supplement Normas al día (Updated standards).

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