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.

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.

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.