OUR SERVICES
MTL offers a wide variety of services that take advantage of its facilities as well as the established scientific skill base of its people
These services cover the whole range of the 4 main subjects that MTL is actively engaged in (Engineering Materials, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Processes, Manufacturing Systems) and for greater clarity are further divided in 8 themes as these are described below

MATERIALS TESTING & CHARACTERISATION
Tensile, Compression, Bending and Impact Testing, Micro-Hardness, Optical and Atomic Force Microscopy

DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Composites, Metal foams, Superconductive materials

PRODUCT PROTOTYPING
Machining, Forming, Casting, Additive Manufacturing (FDM, SLS/SLM)

PART DIGITISATION
CAD, Photogrammetry, White Light Scanning

CNC PART PROGRAMMING
CAPP, CAM, Part setup, G-code optimisation, Post-processor development

MACHINE TOOL METROLOGY
Laser-Doppler, Autocollimation

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS OPTIMISATION
Design of processes and systems, parameter optimisation, FEA, VR/AR simulation

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS AUTOMATION
Process Monitoring, Robotisation, Automated Inspection
STANDARD SERVICES INDEX
The detailed index of MTL's Standard Services and their descriptions can be downloaded from the link below