TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN) brochure

Innovation Network

A POSITIVE IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY THROUGH ATTAINING KNOWLEDGE AND DRIVING INNOVATION twi-innovation-network.com

Driving innovation through collaboration

TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN) What we do The TWI Innovation Network works to nurture and coordinate partnerships, enabling engineering advances in specialist areas across a range of industry sectors in response to commercial needs, as well as helping to train and up-skill the next generation of industry experts and staff.

It was created under the umbrella of the Structural Integrity Research Foundation (SIRF) and encompasses Innovation Centres; the National Structural Integrity Research Centre; Technology Acceleration Programmes; and Private Technology Innovation Partnerships.

Innovation Network partners benefit from open access to facilities, allowing them to carry out work at TWI’s headquarters in Cambridge using state-of-the-art equipment in dedicated laboratories.

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Training skilled people and supporting their movement within the economy

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Developing collaborative programmes

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Investing in major research capabilities

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Supporting businesses to realise the potential of new technologies, develop ideas and make them a commercial success

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Co-delivering research and innovation

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Providing universities with access to world-leading technology and expertise

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Reaching into the knowledge base for world-leading science and engineering

research

TWIIN

National Structural Integrity Research Centre

Innovation Centres with Universities

Technology Acceleration Programmes with Industrial Members

Private Technology Innovation Partnerships with Industrial Sponsors

National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC)

University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh

University of Strathclyde

Teesside University

The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) was established in October 2012 with the aim of becoming the world centre for structural integrity research.

Sheffield Hallam University

NSIRC collaborates with leading international universities, such as University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and National University of Singapore, to meet industrial challenges.

The collaborating partners provide academic excellence to address the need for fundamental research, as well as high-quality, industry relevant training for the next generation of structural integrity engineers.

Technical University of Denmark

Loughborough University University of Nottingham University of Leicester

NSIRC is a state-of-the-art postgraduate engineering facility established and managed by structural integrity specialist TWI. It works closely with industrial partners Lloyd’s Register Foundation and BP plc, and lead academic partner Brunel University London.

University of Sheffield

Lancaster University

Coventry University

University of Leeds

University of Cambridge

University of Manchester

University of Essex Brunel University London

University of Birmingham

London South Bank University University College London

University of Warwick

University of Greenwich

University of Bristol University of Oxford

Cranfield University

University of Surrey

University of Southampton

Kaunas University of Technology

Tianjin University

KAUST

De Montfort University

Wuhan University of Technology

Pusan National University

University University of of Kuala Lumpur Technology Malaysia National University of Singapore

Innovation Centres TWI hosts a growing number of Innovation Centres achieving technology excellence and accelerating research to meet socioeconomic and environmental challenges.

The centres are joint industry research partnerships between TWI and a specialised university, each with a focus on different joint industry research. They share research and technology capabilities and undertake joint research programmes to develop the next generation of technologies and engineers in selected research disciplines.

Each links closely with the National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC), which carries out industry-led postgraduate research on structural integrity technologies.

Essex.AI Artificial Intelligence

HIC Health

PolyMERIC

LSBIC

All centres are based at TWI, so they can take advantage of TWI’s research laboratories and facilities and 700 industrial members to inform their research direction.

Robotic & Automation

BIC Asset Integrity

Polymers

J4IC

MatIC

Joining

Metallic

ARCTIC

Technology Focus The Innovation Centres at TWI work across a range of technology platforms, each of which has the potential to generate a substantial impact on the future of UK engineering.

The key focus is on reducing waste and creating, cleaner, more efficient economic products and processes in: •

Oil and gas

Coatings & Resins

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Power (including renewables)

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Construction and engineering

Composites

AMIC

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Transport (air and surface including road, rail and marine)

RIC

Additive Manufacturing

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Healthcare technologies

Materials

BCC

Renewables

Technology Acceleration Programmes (TAPs)

Networks

TAPs are a source of ideas, knowledge, expertise, skills and research infrastructure for business.

Technology Acceleration Programmes (TAPs) focus on the innovation interests of TWI, Innovation Centres and the collaborative partner organisations. They are collaborations focused on innovation, with the aim of developing and introducing new project concepts; novel ideas with industrial engagement, turning them into successful applications and ultimately technologies or industrial systems/solutions.

Expertise

Information

Technology insights providing accesss to:

Services

Project work is carried out collaboratively at TWI’s facilities, including that of its innovation centres, as well as at partner organisations’ sites as part of a collaborative project. Hence TAPs offer complementary resources and capabilities. TAPs may also be linked with one or more of TWI’s Innovation Centres.

90+

Innovation

Business Growth

TAPs representing over

15

countries

Promotion

Private Technology Innovation Partnerships (PTIPs) PTIPs foster home-grown innovation and work closely with customers to address their technology priorities, working towards the commercialisation of technology with sponsors and supply chains.

They are TWI member-owned research units based at TWI, which allows them access to TWI’s facilities and to utilise TWI industrial membership and academic partners to take their research forward.

How do PTIPs work?

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Provide access to an up-to-date technology portfolio in a rapidly changing business environment

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Seamless integration of novel solutions into customer ecosystems

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Dedicated space, project manager and systematic approach to portfolio management

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Demonstrate feasibility to technology realisation

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Boost entrepreneurship

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Grow the knowledge-based economy

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Increase technology exports

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Promote innovation and strengthen talent bases through strong academiaindustry links

Current PTIPs:

What do PTIPs deliver?

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Novel products and services in asset integrity, materials and advanced joining technology

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Cost effective, industrially relevant and internationally compliant solutions

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Technology transfer (IP, know-how etc.) for mass customisation

Non-metallic Innovation Centre (NIC)

AVIC Centre for Materials Joining and Surface Engineering

Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (AramcoTech)

Aviation Industry Corporation of China AVIC

ADNOC

TWIIN Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Centre

BIAM-TWI Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI)

Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC)

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