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We can help your company solve technical problems and transform your manufacturing operations to meet challenges head on.
What We Do
We deploy a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists to tackle opportunities across a range of industries, products, and technology areas.
Model-Based Engineering
COE-ASM has the tools and expertise to understand and evaluate a design so you know how it will perform before it ever goes into production. Computer simulations of product use, manufacturing processes, and even end-of-life scenarios shed light on how designs and parameters affect success—allowing companies to make the right engineering choices without paying for mistakes.
Tools: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), process simulation
Applications: Design of more robust products
Design and Performance Validation
We help manufacturers understand how product design features and process parameters affect the outcomes and impacts of manufacturing. From concepts and prototypes to established manufacturing processes, our ever-advancing repertoire of testbeds and expertise can provide critical insight into scale-up, commercialization, and deployment performance—helping verify target achievement, measure against competitors, and optimize parameters.
Tools: Life Cycle Assessment, accelerated lifecycle testing, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
Digital Manufacturing and Data Analytics
Digital technologies offer unprecedented levels of control, feedback, and automation, helping optimize manufacturing process performance. In turn, data from these technologies can reveal insights that help manufacturers improve product quality, maximize operational efficiency, and reduce costs. COE-ASM works closely with manufacturers to develop tailored digital technology solutions, existing system integration strategies, and data analysis methodologies. If you are thinking about adopting digital technologies into your manufacturing process, our team of experienced engineers can help. Visit the Industry 4.0 Transition Assistance Program to learn more.
Tools: Cyber-physical systems, mobile & wearable technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning
Applications: Digital manufacturing, work instructions
Sensing, Monitoring, and Internet of Things
Information is the key to success. COE-ASM helps manufacturers capture valuable information and turn it into benefits on the triple bottom-line. We develop and integrate advanced machine-level sensors that relay data on process performance, product quality, and equipment health. And we create networking solutions that connect machines in an Internet of Things, providing system-wide monitoring that helps manufacturers make decisions to improve throughput, minimize downtime, and reduce costs. To learn more about these offerings, visit our Industry 4.0 Transition Assistance Program.
Tools: Wireless power monitoring, sense & respond logistics, condition-based and predictive maintenance
Applications: Manufacturing peak load assessment, fleet logistics, heavy-duty vehicle maintenance
Life Cycle Engineering
Today’s markets demand that manufacturers increasingly consider the full product lifecycle as a central business strategy; as a result, factors like manufacturability, reliability, and durability are becoming ever more important. COE-ASM helps companies address these issues by providing design support and life cycle performance evaluations that make products easier to produce, simpler to disassemble, more valuable to remanufacture, and cleaner to recycle. The benefits help strengthen the triple bottom line.
Tools: Design-for-X, material assessment and substitution, accelerated lifecycle testing
Applications: Corrosion-resistant coatings, sustainable materials
Remanufacturing and Material Reuse
Remanufacturing and reuse preserve the embodied value of the materials, labor, energy, and manufacturing processes that go in to making a product and its constituent elements. Technologies and market opportunities in this area face many technical and economic challenges, but as a key enabler of the circular economy, show significant potential for growth. COE-ASM helps companies solve problems in technologies and business models, promoting the competitiveness of remanufacturing in industry.
Tools: Design for Remanufacturing, reman life cycle assessment, additive manufacturing
Applications: Heavy-duty vehicle components, surface restoration, printing and imaging products, office furniture, post-consumer plastics
New Technology Commercialization
In all of these areas, the potential for technology innovation is immense. Whether companies have a product prototype or a concept for a new manufacturing process, COE-ASM stands ready to help innovators strengthen the technical and business case for development and navigate the commercialization process. Our goal is to advance the state of new and emerging technologies by accelerating market readiness and facilitating broad adoption.
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July 19, 2024
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RIT-led team wins $50K to help NY companies build a circular economy piloted by Tribal Nations
In June 2024, a collaboration—Gen7—led by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was awarded $50,000 by the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) as a first-round winner of the Re-X Before Recycling Prize. Gen7 aims to create economic opportunities for American Indian-owned enterprises across the United States by building a circular economy business model and supply chain for remanufactured office furniture.
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January 26, 2024
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Novel press design helps Jeca make more energy bars without lowering the bar on taste and nutrition
When Ree Dolnick launched Jeca Energy Bars Co. LLC (Jeca) in 2015, she knew she wanted to create an artisanal energy bar that was different from the rest. What she didn’t know was that adding less sugar than what’s found in similar products would mean rethinking her entire manufacturing process—her low-sugar recipes didn’t work on conventional equipment for making bars.
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November 10, 2023
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World Bank leader tapped to lead The New York Climate Exchange on Governors Island
The New York Climate Exchange, a first-of-its-kind organization working to implement innovative climate solutions across the globe, has announced Stephen Hammer as its founding CEO. Hammer will lead a consortium of over 45 partner organizations, including RIT and other leading research universities, and multi-national companies, that are committed to solving the most pressing climate challenges of our time.
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April 24, 2023
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RIT part of new not-for-profit entity selected by NYC for world-leading climate center
Governors Island, a historical site in New York Harbor for centuries, will be the home to a new world-leading climate solutions center that will position New York City as the global leader for one of the most pressing issues of our time, and RIT is among the affiliate partners.
Testimonials
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Brunner
We were interested in the possibility of monitoring our stamping and forging presses to reduce unscheduled downtime. RIT demonstrated the value of capturing data from our existing tonnage monitor and also provided a scalable concept design for press monitoring. We look forward to the next steps of implementing this solution.
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INFICON
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Davies Office, Inc.
COE-ASM was able to quantify the environmental impacts of our remanufactured workspaces versus OEM workspaces. We now feel confident informing our clients on the positive effects remanufacturing has on the environment.
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G.W. LISK
COE-ASM came in with several different ideas to address our difficult inspection challenges; I don’t think they could have done a better job.
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Effortless Advantage
What we ended up doing is creating a better, more market ready design.
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Craft Cannery
We partnered with RIT to really look into our critical processes and map out some approaches to add the right type of temperature-monitoring system for us. They helped define a realistic budget we could live with, understand how a temperature monitoring system could work on the shop floor, and select hardware and software that was a good fit.
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RBW
The COE-ASM team, led by Gerry Hurley, was a valuable partner in our team’s successful efforts to completely relocate our production operations and consolidate our warehouse inventory under one roof. Their collaborative approach to production workflow, workstation design, and materials storage served as the guiding light to navigating the tremendous challenge of establishing RBW’s new factory of the future in Kingston, New York.
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Rochester Colonial
The model that RIT built gives us the confidence to know that what we’re building is 100% safe. COE-ASM people were a pleasure to work with and pragmatic in their approach. We now are more confident to transition the product to mass production.
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Rochester Colonial
We partnered with RIT to take a deep dive into our shop-floor and business processes, and to map out all the complexities we live with every day. They really helped us to understand the subtle differences in how the various parts of the business work within each of our four divisions. -
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The Gunlocke Company
We received a unique, timely and targeted assessment of our operations that will ultimately improve our sustainability and financial bottomline.
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V Technical Textiles, Inc.
Recognizing the need to modernize our business processes, we faced the challenge of determining how to begin. Thankfully, the RIT engineers provided the clarity and confidence we required to evaluate digital tools to facilitate this transformative journey. -
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Council Rock
We turned to the Center to assist us with this new product, and I can say we are very pleased with the results. Working with COE-ASM proved to be a good business move, and as a result we have secured a pilot order that we believe will lead to thousands of additional sales of our product.
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American Fuel Cell
We have established an excellent relationship with RIT-COESM to further the research, development, test, and manufacture of fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies. We expect to jointly seek funding for advanced catalyst formulations.
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Faradyne Motors LLC
Deploying Industry 4.0 appeared daunting; we were thrilled when we found that RIT was able to help guide us through this process.
