"CNR Services International Ltd delivers leading-edge engineering design services to a wide range of industry sectors. From concept generation, through design and optimisation, to the effective integration into the manufacturing process, CNRs dedicated team of specialist engineers, designers and scientists help customers achieve the results they are looking for. CNR has identified a gap in the market to develop an alignment system for the build of helicopter tail structures. We have a customer extremely interested in TSAS and we are confident from patent searches that there is no product out there at present to offer such enormous benefits over current state-of-the-art methods. TSAS will improve upon current state-of-the-art methods by: - greater speed of operation - greater accuracy, 100% of the time, no operator error - automatically collecting and storing data for audit/traceability/trend analysis. - significantly reducing tail vibration for improved crew/passenger comfort/extended component life. CNR will grow significantly through sales of TSAS and offers significant vaue for money for the UK tax payer. It will also safeguard jobs and create new ones. TSAS will make CNR more competitive as our revenues will grow to enable further investment in R&D and we begin to be seen as a one-stop shop for alignment issues with our aerospace customers, old and new."

CNR Services International Ltd delivers leading-edge engineering design services to a wide range of industry sectors from concept generation and development, through integration into the manufacturing process. CNR recently designed a self-contained miniature actuator for a specific aerospace customer application which delighted said customer by exceeding size, mass and performance expectations. Given that experience, CNR is confident that it is now able to develop a significantly smaller, lighter and higher performing self-contained electro-hydraulic actuator given a fresh piece of paper from which to start. This presents a significant commercial opportunity in aircraft actuation and will generate significant foreground IP for CNR, grow its business substantially and create high value UK jobs. This product is expected to provide cheaper manufacturing costs per actuator, lower mass, more reliability, greater efficiency and quieter and smoother performance than current state-of-the-art actuators. There is tremendous opportunity to further broaden the markets of this product outside of aerospace.

CNR Services International Ltd delivers leading-edge engineering design services to a wide range of industry sectors. From concept generation and development, through the design and optimisation of the product, to the effective integration into the manufacturing process, CNR's dedicated team of specialist engineers, designers and scientists help customers achieve the results they are looking for. CNR recently designed a self-contained miniature actuator for a specific aerospace customer application. This innovative product delighted said customer by exceeding size, mass and performance expectations and was developed in an extremely short period of time which meant CNR had to compromise on a great many design ideas they had during the development. Given that experience, CNR is confident that it is now able to develop a significantly smaller, lighter and higher performing self-contained electro-hydraulic actuator given a fresh piece of paper from which to start. This will be done entirely without infringing any foreground IP resulting from the initial design mentioned above. During a recent discussion with another customer about the benefits of miniaturising aircraft actuators, CNR is confident that there is a significant commercial opportunity in premium (business & 1st class) passenger aircraft seat actuation. This will generate significant foreground IP for CNR, grow its business substantially and create high value UK jobs.

CNR Services International Ltd delivers leading-edge engineering design services to a wide range of industry sectors. From concept generation, through design and optimisation, to the effective integration into the manufacturing process, CNRs dedicated team of specialist engineers, designers and scientists help customers achieve the results they are looking for. Over the last 15 months, CNR has successfully completed a TSB-funded Proof of Market project and a subsequent TSB-funded Proof of Concept project which have shown the Automated Transmission Laser Alignment System (ATLAS) system being proposed in this funding application will meet a very large need in todays helicopter market. ATLAS will automate helicopter transmission shaft alignment. Currently this is done using outdated labour intensive manual processes. ATLAS can be used by a single aircraft technician without the need to remove the helicopter transmission shafts. Therefore, the impact of an ATLAS system in an already large market with accelerating growth is potentially huge with users seeing significant process, operational and financial benefits. With the detailed market and customer intelligence gained from its TSB-funded activities in 2013-14, CNR estimates potential sales of ATLAS to be approximately £50m even before considering the huge growth, doubling current fleet sizes, expected in the helicopter market over the next 20 years. CNR believes it could establish a sustainable business offering OE sales, maintenance and repair, R&D to develop on-going upgrades and performance enhancements, higher margin spares provision and contracted annual re-calibration services. A business of this size would expect to employ about 50 people. ROI for this project is extremely high (x40). If successful, this project will be the bedrock for a significant growth of the business, doubling in size in each of the first five years from commercial launch. ATLAS is expected to create approx. 50 new jobs for CNR

CNR Services International Ltd delivers leading-edge engineering design services to a wide range of industry sectors. From concept generation, through design and optimisation, to the effective integration into the manufacturing process, CNRs dedicated team of specialist engineers, designers and scientists help customers achieve the results they are looking for. CNR recently successfully completed a TSB-funded Proof of Market project which showed that the Automated Transmission Laser Alignment System (ATLAS) system being proposed in this Proof of Concept project would meet a very large need in todays helicopter market. ATLAS will automate helicopter transmission shaft alignment. Currently this is done using outdated labour intensive manual processes. It is anticipated that ATLAS could be used by a single aircraft technician without the need to remove the helicopter transmission shafts. Therefore, the impact of an ATLAS system in an already large market with accelerating growth is potentially huge with users seeing significant process, operational and financial benefits. With the detailed market and customer intelligence we gained from our TSB-funded Proof of Market project, we estimate the potential sales of our ATLAS system to be approximately £100m even before we consider the huge growth expected in the helicopter market over the next 20 years. We believe that we could establish a sustainable business with annual revenue of approximately £10-15m which offers OE sales, R&D to develop on-going upgrades and performance enhancements, higher margin spares provision and contracted annual re- calibration services. A business of this size would expect to employ about 50 people. ROI for this project will be extremely high (x80). If successful, this project will be the bedrock for a significant growth of the business, doubling in size in each of the first five years from commercial launch. ATLAS is expected to create approx. 50 new jobs for CNR.

CNR Services International Ltd delivers leading-edge engineering design services to a wide range of industry sectors. From concept generation and development, through the design and optimisation of the product, to the effective integration into the manufacturing process, CNR's dedicated team of specialist engineers, designers and scientists help customers achieve the results they are looking for. There is a large global fleet of helicopters in service with a significant and accelerating growth of new-build helicopters being added to the market over the next decade and beyond. A key element of helicopter manufacture and heavy maintenance is the accurate alignment of the helicopter’s transmission shafts. The methods used currently for this are manual and very time-consuming. CNR sees an opportunity to design and supply equipment to automate these processes providing users with a significantly quicker and more accurate method of aligning helicopter transmission shafts than is currently available. If successful, the CNR-designed Automated Transmission Laser Alignment System (ATLAS) will have a significant market impact. This project will investigate the market to understand the commercial viability and potential market for the CNR ATLAS system. Users of the ATLAS system will see significant process, operational and financial benefits by: reducing helicopter manufacturing costs and lead times; reducing helicopter maintenance costs and lead times; reducing operational noise to the benefit of aircrew (health and safety) and passengers (premium ride perception); increasing the serviceable life of components saving costs and being environmentally beneficial. These benefits to helicopter operators, manufacturers and 3rd party repair and overhaul organisations are the critical issues to be assessed through this project.