How we work
Flexibile, agile and responsive to our clients needs, we aspire to be a partner of choice for long-term relationships, time-bound projects and one-off pieces of work.
Working with you
Britest may be a membership organisation, but we are much more than that. As an independent not-for-profit business we can work flexibly with you whether you enjoy the benefits of full Britest membership, associate with us to collaborate on more specifically time- or task-bounded projects, or just want straightforward, value-for-money help from an expert consultant on a particular task or challenge. We can also help with your training and staff development needs through our strength and experience in training and knowledge-transfer product development and delivery.
If we think we can help, we'll make it work.
Members
Britest's Members are part of a community of regular users enjoying
- A pre-paid, preferential rate service package according to their usage patterns and volume requirements
- Priority access to Britest facilitator time
- Consultative process understanding studies
- Support with bespoke development and innovation of tools and workflows based on the Britest approach
- Access to extended resources, tools, and templates for embedding the Britest approach in house
- Access to networks, partnerships, best practice, and collaborative opportunities.
Associates
Britest Associates. benefit from the clarity of a defined service package around which support from the Britest Team can be planned in a straightforward fashion.
- Pre-paid, easy to understand service package based around your usage patterns and volume requirements
- Easy call-off of Britest facilitator time
- Consultative process understanding studies.
Consultancy
Britest provides consultancy services where our unique process understanding toolkit and/or the technical expertise of our highly experienced team of industrial chemists and chemical engineers can provide value in addressing your challenge. Consultancy can also provide an easy way to get to know the Britest approach for the first time and appreciate how it can be applied in areas including:
- Process problem solving
- Innovation and technical risk management
- Process safety studies
- Statistical analysis of R&D, process and analytical data, and DOE.
Key features:.
- Rapid results from short, cost-effective interventions
- Scope of work, outputs and timings clearly defined and agreed
- Straightforward, value for money day-rates
- Proprietary information handled securely and professionally
- No job too big or too small - get in touch for a friendly, no-obligations chat.
Training
We are well-versed in training provision and broader communication and dissemination .of the Britest approach and innovation arising from our collaborative projects and networks. We regularly deliver in-house and open training courses face to face and online, and can develop and host bespoke online training and knowledge transfer tools.
Subjects covered include:
- Britest Tools and Technical Facilitation skills
- Understanding Process Plant Cleaning
- Chemical Engineering for non-engineers .
- Statistics for Scientists and Technologists
- Statistical Design of Experiments
- Technology Transfer and Scale-Up
- Physical Organic Chemistry concepts in Process Development
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