The Lot  Research Institute for Standardisation and Certification

Director of CRI Lot Y.N. Rumyanzev

The Lot Research Institute is the principal shipbuilding industry institution in charge of standardisation and certification.
The Lot Institute was separated from the Baltic Shipyard Design Bureau and established as an independent design organisation (Central Design Bureau-4) by a decree of the Government in 1939.

In 1943 the USSR Peoples' Commissariat re-organised CDB-4 into a new kind of design institution called CDBS, whose main tasks were formulated as: "extensive implementation of standardisation principles in shipbuilding, development of new unified machinery and equipment designs, establishment of specialised shipbuilding production organisations".

In 1969, that Bureau was re-organised into the Lot Central Research Institute (CRI Lot). The former CDBS table of organisation was radically changed and the new Institute directed its activities towards the development of scientific and methodological grounds for standardisation, standardisation theory, and introduction of economical and mathematical methods in standardisation.

In 1989 the Russian Gosstandart (State Standard) Organisation decided to establish a Technical Committee for shipbuilding standardisation (TC5), which was set up utilising the CRI Lot structure.

In 1993, Gosstandart assigned Lot to act as the central authority for marine equipment and leisure boat certification.

The Institute now has several accredited certification agencies:

• Within the GOST R system: a certification agency for marine machinery, a leisure craft certification agency, and the Test-Lot leisure craft test laboratory
  
  
• Within the Oboronsertifika (Defence Certification) system: the Sudosert certification agency for quality systems
  

In 1999, Lot was incorporated into the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute as an affiliate under the name of Research Institute for Shipbuilding Standardisation and Certification Lot (CRI Lot).

Today, Lot is the principal organisation in the national shipbuilding industry for standardisation, certification, licensing for various activities, marine equipment cataloguing, equipment and material classification and coding, microfilming, specialisation and co-operation of marine machinery manufacturers.

In the framework of international standardisation efforts, Lot heads the Secretariat of the ISO/TC8/SC7 Inland Ships Subcommittee and actively co-operates with ISO/TC8 subcommittees on Ships and Ship Technologies.

The Lot Institute Offers:

• Generation of shipbuilding industry regulatory documents
  
  
• Delivery of state and shipbuilding industry standards, certification standard documents, industrial catalogues of marine equipment
  
  
• Delivery of computer-format shipbuilding industry regulations, indices of shipbuilding industry regulatory documents, Standardisation & Certification in Shipbuilding collections of regulatory documents
  
  
• Information services concerning marine and associated industry equipment, production specialisation and existing industrial co-operation arrangements
  
  
• Tests and certification of marine equipment and leisure craft, including issuing certificates of compliance within the GOST R Russian State Standard system
  
  
• Marine equipment cataloguing
  
  
• Issuing codes for shipbuilding products
  
  
• Quality system evaluation and certification of shipbuilding industry companies and institutions

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