TES Club – engagement with a National resource
How to benefit from working with the
EPSRC Centre in Through-life
Engineering Services
We are launching a new tier of membership for
the EPSRC Centre in Through-life Engineering
Services called TES Club and we are inviting you
to become a member. Benefits of membership
include:
• An annual three month research project
specifically for members undertaken by up to
eight full-time MSc students and supervised by
Cranfield academics
• A free training place on modules from our MSc
programme in Through-life System Sustainment
on such topics as obsolescence management and
cost engineering
• Free access to themed TES knowledge days
featuring top quality speakers and workshops,
• Free consultancy provided by TES academics
and research staff
• Discounted access to our short courses and
annual international conference
TES Club has been designed as an easy entry level
to the Centre, especially for smaller companies
across the service and support supply chain, but it is
open to all and provides a simple way of engaging
with the broader Centre activities.
The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in
Through-life Engineering Services (TES) was
launched on 12 July 2011. Its mission is to develop
knowledge, technology and process demonstrators,
novel
methodologies,
techniques
and
the
associated toolsets to provide the capability for the
concept design and manufacture of high value
engineering systems based on the provision of
through-life engineering services.
We aim to improve the availability, predictability and
reliability of complex engineering products to deliver
the lowest possible whole life cycle cost.
Our vision is to provide thought leadership in
through-life engineering services and be the first
choice for UK manufacturing companies as a source
of expertise, technological solutions, R&D capability,
knowledge, skills and advice.
We are hosted by Cranfield University and Durham
University and our core industrial partners are RollsRoyce, Bombardier Transportation, BAE Systems
and the MoD. We have a further fifteen partners
including BSI, ADS and two KTNs.
KEY CENTRE CAPABILITIES
 Environmental Testing Chamber: The chamber offers the ability to test
technology under the influence of environmental stimuli which include
vibration, temperature and humidity, to replicate the fault conditions.
 Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation System: The NCompassᵀᴹ
equipment supplied by the project’s Industrial partner Copernicus
Technology Ltd, provides a state-of-the-art capability to identify and
locate intermittencies which conventional testing fails to do.
For more information contact:
Andy Shaw, National Centre Manager,
B30 EPSRC Centre in Through-life Engineering Services,
Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL
Tel: +44 (0) 1234 750111 (x2281)
Mob: +44 (0) 7711 706287
Email: [email protected]
 Thermographic Non-Destructive Testing Inspection: Scanning and
measurement technology using ‘Pulsed Thermography’ to observe
degradation and characterise component failure.