Golisano Institute for Sustainability
Areas of Expertise
GIS offers a wide variety of expertise in the areas of sustainable development and design combining real world experience with a strong academic and research background.
GIS’ areas of expertise include:
- Asset Health Management
- Material Aging
- Modernization through Remanufacturing and Conversion
- Life-cycle Engineering
- Reliability Engineering
- Clean Technologies
- Intelligent Testing and Diagnostics
- Design for Remanufacture/Design for the Life Cycle
- Value Engineering
- Reverse Logistics
- Asset Recycle Management
- Green Product Assessment
Asset Health Management
Asset Health Management
(AHM) refers to the development of technologies to monitor equipment health and predict future failures
for reduced operating costs and longer equipment lives.
Capabilities Include:
- Embedded Sensor Development and Implementation
- Predictive Algorithm and Software Development
- On-board Diagnostics and Prognostics
- Decision Support for Predictive Maintenance
- Logistics Forecasting
- Fleet Health Trending
Material Aging
A research initiative
designed to understand why materials degrade during use and how to extend their useful life.
Capabilities include:
- Structural and Material Analysis
- Finite Element Analysis
- Material Salvage
- Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Failure Effects Modes Analysis (FEMA)
- Corrosion Testing
- Wear Analysis
- Fatigue Testing
- Surface Spray Testing and Implementation
- Micro-structural Analysis
Modernization through Remanufacturing and Conversion
An organized
approach designed to integrate remanufacturing into the full life cycle of a product or system with
low costs and risks along with improved performance in a shorter lead-time.
Capabilities Include:
- Rapid Reverse Engineering
- Metrology Analysis
- Design Tools for Platform Level Upgrades
- Advanced Technology Insertion
- Remanufacturability Assessment, Including Metrics and Economic Modeling
Life-cycle Engineering
Life-cycle
Engineering characterizes and quantifies a product’s effects on the environment throughout its
life cycle while also working to enhance component quality and performance.
Capabilities include:
- Innovation Based Design
- Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) Analysis
- Technology Forecasting and Insertion
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Risk Assessment
- Life Cycle Engineering and Economic Decision System (LEEDS)
- Service Life Analysis and Extension
- Analysis of Alternative Fuels Impact on Reliability, Durability and Ownership Cost
- Life Cycle Economic Analysis
Reliability Engineering
Reliability Engineering is a structured, seven step process which uses data and testing to incorporate
the consequences of component and system failure into the maintenance of vehicles and equipment. It
seeks to reduce the effects of failure on operations by more accurately predicting when and how components
may fail and using this information to adjust re-supply and repairs accordingly.
Capabilities Include:
- Failure Mode Analysis
- On Condition Monitoring
- Predictive Maintenance
Clean Technologies
An
initiative designed to develop practical, economical, and environmentally-responsible technologies
for use in manufacturing and remanufacturing processes.
Capabilities Include:
- Surface Cleaning, Coating, & Finishing
- Washwater Recycling
- Energy Conservation
- Process Reengineering
- Waste Minimization
- Pollution Prevention
- Enhanced Resource Utilization
Intelligent Testing and Diagnostics
Predicting
the remaining useful life of components is a central step in enhancing environmental quality and process
efficiency. Intelligent testing is used to assess the health of components and predict their remaining
life through the development of test fixture design, test protocols, and signature analysis.
Capabilities Include:
- Signature Analysis
- Accelerated Aging
- Ultra Violet Testing
- Ozone Testing
- HALT/HAAS
- End of Life Analysis
- Wireless Applications
- Signal Processing
Design for Remanufacture/Design for the Life Cycle
This
initiative works to design products at inception to ensure the optimum end-of-life option whether
it is remanufacturing, recycling or reuse. The process takes into account the entire life cycle of
the product or system from cradle to cradle, reducing overall production costs and decreasing waste
generation.
Capabilities Include:
- Design Tools Implementation
- Design for Disassembly and Reassembly
- Reliability Testing and Analysis
- Total Cost of Ownership
- House of Quality (Total Quality Management)
- Voice of the Customer
- Competitive Benchmarking
Value Engineering
This approach uses structured value planning and engineering to optimize product value while reducing
environmental impact.
Capabilities Include:
- Value Stream Mapping
- Development of Specialized Training Programs
- Facilitation for Value Optimization
Reverse Logistics
Creating and optimizing
a product reclamation plan from collection through the recovery process.
Capabilities Include:
- Reverse Distribution Network Planning
- End-of-life Disposition Models
- Environmental Policy Impact Planning
Asset Recycle Management
This process works to develop
a comprehensive strategy for the management of an organization's physical assets, including end-products
and materials throughout their life cycle.
Capabilities Include:
- Value Reclamation
- Cross-platform Opportunity Identification
- Economic Model Development.
Green Product Assessment
This effort is a transparent approach for assessing and documenting green product characteristics
to assist companies in designing, manufacturing, and supplying truly green products to the marketplace.
Capabilities Include:
- Analysis of green product and LEED purchasing requirements
- Environmental health and safety analysis
- Product and process improvement planning and implementation