Bay Zoltán Institute The Foundation was established in 1992 by the government. The Foundation operates as a non-profit research organisation and its research and development activity is carried out in six institutes at the moment. Bay Zoltán Institute for Logistics and Production Systems (BAY-LOGI) was founded in 1993 as the third institute of the Foundation. The Institute is located in Miskolc, Hungary. At the moment there are 8 departments in the institute working in the field of applied research. These are: Structural Integrity; Information Technology; Energetic; Mechatronics; Recycling and Logistics; Water jet Cutting; Measurement and control systems; Project coordination and development. There are approximately 50 employees in the Institute including 3 Ph.D. students.

Special expertise of the Department for Structural Integrity in related to the project area: risk based inspection and maintenance planning application of numerical methods for simulation the  operation conditions of structures, experimental and theoretical investigations of material behaviour and damage processes of  materials and structures, reliability and integrity assessment of structures, life-time management. Other expertise of other departments relevant to the project: telecommunication image processing measurement system and software development data mining and application of neural networks. The institute have participated and still participates with great success in different national and international tenders: since the foundation we have participated in the realization of more than 25 international projects, as well as we have been the coordinators of several projects (e.g.: PECO,  COPERNICUS, INCO-COPERNICUS, NATO, TEMPUS, EU Framework Programme 5 and 6, bilateral TéT projects)