Tenso Consulting & Services

Short term, long term or periodical, Tenso can assist with consulting advise or perform Engineering, R&D and Scientific services.

If you are comfortable managing your development project with your own resources but require unique specialist expertise or assistance, we may be able to help with short term or longer-term consulting services. Tenso offers a broad range of engineering and technological expertise, which may be applied to your project.

Areas of expertise include:

Tender/Proposal Management
Systems Engineering
Engineering Project Peer Reviews
Design Risk Assessments
Documentation Production and Reviews
Validation & Verification
Simulation, Virtual Modelling and Digital Twin


Tender/ProposalManagement

Tenso have managed and produced numerous successful proposals for major capital equipment tenders.
The quality of the tendering organization is read in the quality of the proposal. The key elements of a successful tender are Compliance, Completeness and Clarity. Under the pressure of a tender deadline, either of these deciding factors may suffer, reducing the chance of acceptance. On the contrary, a fully compliant and documented proposal effects confidence and affection and easily overcomes a higher price as supreme value is recognized in the offer.

Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering employs a method of multi- and inter-disciplinary engineering team management to enable the design and delivery of complex systems in an integrated approach, ensuring compliance with the requirements. Rather than allowing a sequential approach to the deployment of different disciplines, all fields of expertise are involved from the start; not just parallel but integrated so as to maximize the input of all disciplines to the maximum performance and efficiency of the system's functionality and life cycle support.

Engineering Project Peer Reviews

A Peer Review is useful in any project but particularly so where the outcome of a project or the functionality and performance of a product or system is critical e.g. in terms of reliability, health and safety or using highly innovative techniques or materials. It is recommended to review the proposed design and project management at regular design milestones but definitely at critical design reviews by independent individuals or a team who is not associated with the project team but have similar expertise.

The process provides an evaluation of design concepts against project objectives, critical functionality and performance requirements. Where reliance is made on the creative input of individual design engineers or close cooperating teams the process may be both challenging and enlightening but the result is generally positive in either enhancement or confirmation of the chosen designs, increasing confidence in succesful delivery of the project.

Design Risk Assessments

Prior, during and at the conclusion of an engineering or design project a formal risk assessment is performed to capture all risks to people, property or environment. The objective is to mitigate those risks with engineering and design methods rather than operational procedures upon delivery of the project. The risk assessment process is an important process to offer a superior product, comply with Australian or International Standards, local legal requirements and minimize exposure to legal claims on the company.

A multi stage risk assessment and review process is required as new ideas in product or systems design may introduce new risks or capture previously undected risks. Especially with the design of some highly innovative systems and processes, risks may go undetected if the risk assessment is performed by means of a checklist based on previous projects or experience.

Documentation production and reviews

Operation, training, maintenance, and trouble-shooting manuals are documents, which finish the quality of the product.
A well accessible manual enhances the user's perception of the quality of the product. Over the lifetime of the product, considerable time and money can be saved in terms of user instruction, operator and maintenance training and efficient use of the product. Tenso experts can assist in producing or reviewing your documentation and advise on improvements in content, editing and illustration and technology platform.

Validation & Verification

Although sounding seemingly the same the meaning of the two terms is different by definition. Where Validation means the process of ensuring that the product or process meets with the customer's performance requirements; Verification ensures that it is developed in accordance with the required specifications, standards, regulations, conditions, and accepted design and build methods.

Both processes are an integral part of the complete project management suite and require a thorough analysis of customer and regulatory requirements for the development of the project. Validation and verification run parallel throughout the entire project lifecycle.

The processes may include repeated testing and/or simulations in hard and soft environments.

Simulation, Virtual Modelling and Digital Twin

Tenso offers computational modelling, such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for mechanical structures, Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Multiphysics Analysis (MPA). With the various methods a Virtual model or Digital Twin can be developed, which is capable of simulating the system, optimizing the design, and in accordance with IoT and Industry 4.0, is able to monitor the system and perform trend analysis in real time after it has been deployed and is in operation.