Tribology, Equipment and Spare Parts Design Center

The Tribology, Equipment and Spare Parts Design started working by the year 1991 as a special unit at Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering. The center is managed by Assoc. Prof. Mohamed H. ElShazly. TESPDC works from conceptual design through detailed design, manufacturing, supervision, provision, testing, Failure analysis, distribution, etc. The Main Objectives of the Center • Creating awareness of Tribology (friction, wear, and lubrication), spare parts selection and design, maintenance planning, new design, concepts, and fair control on environmental conditions. • Helping in assuring Spare Parts quality by giving engineers tools to quickly and accurately define product and process specifications. • Helping in regenerating a documentation system and introducing new drawing tools to easily define specifications based on a complete engineering change control system. • Establishing good human resources infrastructure through updating design offices and implementing computer facilities together with training and activating courses for companies, factories, and industries entities. • Justifying technical efforts to provide solutions for the local market, and providing technical consultancy and professional opinions in the fields of Design, Manufacturing, Supervision, and Testing. • Developing new longer-life products to replace other ones, enhancing machines characteristics (dynamic and/or tribological), verifying the proposed design, decreasing waste of raw material, improving machine elements life cycle (e.g. performance and maintainability), and minimizing spare parts cost. • Analyzing and simulating the behavior of equipment and machines, and preparing databases linked with spare parts drawings. • Stepping towards predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance; developing maintenance solutions; and preparing maintenance programs • Reducing downtime for machines under maintenance, and reducing time to market through innovation and research.