Answering materials questions across industry.
MTIS is a materials engineering consultancy. We investigate failures, support corrosion and integrity decisions, select and verify materials, design and coordinate testing, engineer manufacturing and repair routes, and train the teams who own the assets — senior engineering judgement built on real-world, sector-specific experience and backed by academic depth.
Answering Materials Questions — since 2009.
MTIS Failure Investigator
How it works →An AI-assisted failure investigation app for genuine, current investigations. Basic, Standard and Expert use the same best-available FI engine; Expert additionally includes integrated RCA tools.
Basic
Free — 6 investigations per 12 months, with a simplified report viewed online.
Standard
USD 99 per named user per 12 months — 12 investigations, full FI reports without RCA, PDF and secure case-package export.
Expert
USD 299 per named user per 12 months — 36 investigations, integrated RCA, PDF and secure case-package export.
What MTIS does
All services →Seven service lines, one discipline: materials engineering judgement applied to real industrial problems. Every line is led by a director.
Failure Investigation
Evidence-led investigation of component and asset failures: mechanism identification, root-cause reasoning and practical corrective actions.
Read more →Corrosion & Integrity
Damage-mechanism identification and interpretation supporting integrity, life-extension and repair-or-replace decisions.
Read more →Materials Selection
Selecting and assessing materials against performance requirements, environment, processing route, cost and failure risk.
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Characterisation & Testing Coordination
Defining what evidence each problem needs, coordinating specialist partner-laboratory methods, and interpreting the results into decisions.
Read more →Partner Laboratory Coordination
Independent test-programme design delivered through specialist partner laboratories — the right test, not the nearest machine.
Read more →Manufacturing & Repair Support
Alternative manufacturing route development and materials judgement for urgent repair and design decisions.
Read more →Training & Advisory
Failure investigation, RCA, materials and corrosion courses — plus standing advisory access to senior materials judgement.
Read more →How we investigate
Investigation is the discipline behind every MTIS service: the same staged, hypothesis-driven method whether the question is a failure, a corrosion problem, a material choice or a verification.
Evidence
Capture and preserve the component, its history and its context before anything is lost.
Testing
Targeted examination — in-house where within our capability, otherwise designed and coordinated through partner laboratories.
Fundamental Mechanism / Failure Mode
Read the evidence to identify how the damage progressed: fatigue, corrosion, cracking, overload or a combination.
Root cause
Test competing explanations against the evidence to establish why the mechanism occurred.
Action
Practical corrective and preventive recommendations you can implement.
Senior engineers, honest capability
Every MTIS project is led by a director — the person you speak to is the person who does the work.
Andrew — Director
Chartered Engineer and professional-institution fellow. Two decades of industrial materials engineering and failure investigation across the energy and process industries in Southeast Asia and internationally, alongside an academic research and teaching career. Leads investigations from evidence intake to final report.
Nigel — Director
Chartered Engineer and professional-institution fellow combining industrial practice with deep materials engineering expertise across failure analysis, corrosion and materials performance.
MTIS maintains limited in-house practical capability for inspection, sample preparation, secure storage and selected materials-processing/support tasks, and works with a network of specialist laboratory partners to access the most appropriate test methods for each investigation.
Formed in 2009, MTIS answers materials questions with the most appropriate tools per project — without the overhead, or the bias, of a captive laboratory.
About MTIS & our partner-lab modelWhere we work
All sectors →Real-world, sector-specific experience — the mechanics of failure do not respect industry boundaries, and neither does our method.
Latest from MTIS
All insights →Materials selection for corrosive environments
Why "more corrosion resistant" is not a strategy, and how to select against the actual mechanism.
Evidence handlingWhat to preserve in the first 24 hours after a component fails
The evidence you save — or destroy — in the first day usually decides how good the answer can be.
Testing strategyMaterials characterisation for non-specialists
What the common techniques actually tell you, in plain engineering language.
A materials question? Bring it to the engineers.
A failure, a corrosion or integrity problem, a material choice, a verification, a manufacturing route, a training need — describe it, and a senior engineer will scope the right approach with you, project-by-project.