How TWI works to help your organisation

Dedicated to helping industry improve safety, efficiency and profitability by optimum application of all forms of joining technology, TWI provides its Industrial Members with a complete range of services. TWI Industrial Membership is a confidential partnership which helps you to improve the performance of your business.

A company or organisation can gain full access to TWI's unique range of facilities and expertise by becoming an Industrial Member. This requires payment of an annual technology access fee which allows use of any of the extensive services available from TWI.

Industrial Member companies can ask TWI for assistance at any stage of design, manufacturing or operation. You will find that our experience with many industry sectors worldwide is a valuable resource to help you solve problems, develop new products, or to market effectively and gain competitive advantage.

We will work with you to:

• increase efficiency
• enhance product quality and reliability
• innovate through better design, materials selection and manufacturing methods

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Please note that Industrial Membership is not appropriate to academic establishments or to individual consultants. Students, teachers, lecturers and consultants are advised to consider the benefits of Personal Membership.

Information

• Immediate assistance by experts on technical matters, by phone, e-mail or fax. Our staff, including internationally recognised experts in their field, will tackle your questions without charge.
• Full access to exclusive Members only content in our technologies area.
• Rapid response from TWI's comprehensive library (providing technical, business and research data).
• Access to Weldasearch - the world's largest welding and joining bibliographic database.
• Information on international standards.
• Health and safety advice and best practice guidelines.
• The 'Who Knows' directory - A complete listing of the technologies and services offered by TWI, with the names of TWI experts in each discipline.
• Pre-paid consultancy - 20% of your company's membership fee is allocated for consultancy work or laboratory time.
• Industry panels - These are open forum discussions on issues of common interest between representatives from the various industry sectors and TWI specialists.
• Visits - As an Industrial Member you are most welcome to visit TWI. You will have access to over 400 skilled staff and a chance to view the extensive facilities. Visits to your site by experienced TWI staff are available by prior arrangement. Visits to and from TWI staff provide the opportunity for in-depth discussions on current technical problems or concerns.
• Distribution of relevant technical and business information via newsletters, magazines, video news and e-mail updates.
• Use of facilities

Core Research Programme

TWI has a multimillion pound underlying core research programme which is funded from the annual membership fees. The current programme is budgeted at over 3 million pounds sterling per annum and consists of over 50 projects covering a comprehensive range of joining and related topics.
All project work at TWI is carried out under a quality assurance system accredited to ISO 9001:2000.

Results of the programme are issued to Industrial Members in the form of detailed reports, technology briefings and through TWI's Bulletin. All of this information is confidential to Industrial Members.

Contract R&D

• Innovative confidential research and technology for individual companies or group or multi-client sponsorship
• Product and process design, development and feasibility studies

Consultancy and project support

• Advice on material and process selection
• Advice on design and fabrication
• Recommendation on all aspects of NDT including engineering critical assessment of discontinuities and defects
• Knowhow on repair and remedial measures
• On-site investigations
• Failure analysis
• Expert help from over 400 skilled staff

Training, qualification and personal membership

• Training and qualifications for personnel at every skill level
• Access to 'learned society membership' - the Welding & Joining Society (WJS)

Technology transfer

• Opportunities for involvement with national and international working groups and a worldwide network of contacts
• Assess technical and economic viability of best practice for materials joining

TWI Industrial Members

TWI Industrial membership covers over 2000 organisations in over 60 countries.