Outsource your Tribology R&D

Your external tribology R&D department

Many companies do not have a tribologist on their team. i-TRIBOMAT, the European Tribology Centre, acts as your external tribologist: we work with your engineers from the first question to the final answer, and you buy it like any other service.

Our tribology R&D services cover:

• Tribology consulting: we review your friction, wear or lubrication problem and propose how to solve it.
• Test programmes: we choose or design the right tests, organise them across our European network and explain the results. See tribological characterisation.
• Analysis and failure investigations: see Advanced Analytics.
• Modelling and simulation: see Modelling & Simulation.
• Literature, patent and materials data searches, and support with materials and lubricant selection.

Whether you need a tribology consultant for a single question or an external tribologist for a whole development project, you have one contact and one offer.

We also combine services: tests, analyses, modelling and simulation from different centres of our European network, put together into one programme that we orchestrate for you.