What we do

Lloyd's Register ODS is a global single source consultancy. We offer complete and independent support with a short response time whenever needed, from rotor and machinery dynamics through troubleshooting and acoustics to noise and vibration.

Lloyd’s Register ODS is world leader in Engineering Dynamics in the oil & gas, power, marine and rail industries. Engineering Dynamics is the study of all that shakes, wobbles, whistles, rattles or roars. Our expertise covers noise & vibration control, the dynamics of rotating machinery and the dynamics of structures including how structures are excited by waves and flows and the failure of structures through dynamic fatigue.

Equipment failure is very often caused by dynamic phenomena and many of our clients come to us when their machinery or process equipment is vibrating so much that either it’s a nuisance or it’s actually shaking itself to bits. A specific focus on failure investigation, a unique systematic approach to troubleshooting and the combined experience of many years’ solving mechanical failures mean that whatever your mechanical problem, we are uniquely well placed to help you find out what’s going wrong, fix it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Our understanding of dynamics and failure mechanisms puts us in an unrivalled position to help ensure that new assets don’t suffer a similar fate. We put our expertise to work assessing designs for a wide spectrum of potential problems – noise, vibration, instability, fatigue damage and so on – on a broad range of applications from process equipment through turbomachinery to fixed and floating structures.

The Lloyd's Register ODS advantage: quick, reliable and cost effective

A large selection of mobile measurement and real time analysis tools ensures we can quickly dispatch engineers anywhere in the world to tackle the challenges you face. The engineers that travel to the field to perform measurements and analysis are the same engineers who work in the office to interpret results, build models and design the solutions to meet those challenges. As a result, our people are as conversant with engineering practice as they are with the theoretical elements that underpin those practices.

This versatility – field and office, theory and practice – is our great strength. It allows us to respond dynamically to challenges as they evolve and it ensures that solutions we work out with our clients are as pragmatic as they can be creative.