Strategic technical assistance for New York State manufacturers
The Center of Excellence in Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing (COE- ASM) connects small and mid-sized companies like yours to strategic R&D expertise, services, and facilities. By working with us, you’ll benefit from our team of industry-proven technical staff as well as top-tier university laboratories and technologies.
Impact
Over the last decade, we helped create 756 new jobs and retain another 670. Plus, we enabled companies to grow and do more with $33M in increased revenue, $3M in cost savings, and $20M in private investments, and $37M secured government funds.
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Technical assistance projects
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New York State companies
Approach
- Smart- and digital-technology readiness and roadmapping
- Advanced technology selection, evaluation, and implementation support
- Equipment monitoring and condition-based maintenance
- Application of machine learning and business intelligence
- Robotics and automation
- Materials engineering (failure analysis, alternative materials selection, and process optimization)
- Energy use (efficiency assessment, monitoring, and analysis)
- Process development (workstation and facility design as well as problem-solving production challenges)
- Product performance and durability optimization through modeling and simulation, as well as testing
- Design for manufacturing and assembly
- Product sustainability (assessment, design, material selection, and energy efficiency)
- Technology- and manufacturing-readiness level assessments and roadmapping
- Product-support strategies (reliability, monitoring, service, and remanufacturing)
Testimonials
RIT’s industry-seasoned experts work with you, step by step, to meet your business goals. See what past clients have to say about their experiences working with us:
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
Featured Case Studies
V Technical Textiles, Inc. maps out material and data flows to improve operational processes
Rochester Colonial advances shop floor & business processes through ERP upgrade
Faradyne Motors LLC targets data connectivity as first step towards digitization
Lighting manufacturer expands production capacity & optimizes manufacturing processes
Life cycle assessment verifies competitive advantage of remanufacturing business model
Design for manufacture & assembly leads to cost-effective, mass production
Additional technical assistance available
New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) is an additional resource for New York State manufacturers. We work with businesses to find cost-effective ways to do more using less resources, all while reducing their impact on the environment. Like COE-ASM, we're based in RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability and, more often than not, most project costs are covered by funding from New York State.
In addition to our growing library of do-it-yourself tools and resources, we offer the following services:
- sustainable-manufacturing assessments
- technology commercialization
- sustainable supply-chain analysis
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- food waste-diversion strategies
The Golisano Institute for Sustainability
The Golisano Institute for Sustainability, located in Upstate New York, is a leading industrial sustainability research, development, and technology deployment unit at Rochester Institute of Technology. GIS consists of a diverse set of research centers, academic and sponsored programs, and industry collaboration initiatives focused on the deployment of new technologies for more efficient and sustainable products and processes.
**Disclaimer: Funding provided by the New York State Department of Economic Development (DED). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the DED. © 2024 Rochester Institute of Technology.