RIT CIMS - National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery

Determining how products "age" and how to restore them successfully includes: Material Salvage, Finite Element Analysis, Failure Analysis, Dimensional Restoration, Structural & Material Analysis, and Structural Analysis.
Analyzing how the physical and mechanical properties of components "age" or change with use.
Providing product designers with information on how a product will function throughout its lifetime.
Providing remanufacturers with condition assessment and the knowledge to modify their processes accordingly.

Clean Technologies

Developing practical, economical, and environmentally-responsible technologies using: Surface Cleaning, Waste Minimization, Surface Finishing, and Pollution Prevention.
Working to make remanufacturing operations more sustainable -- economically and environmentally.
Applying research and technical knowledge to develop and implement accessible and environmentally responsible manufacturing processes.

Assessing the health of components and predicting their remaining useful life through the development of Test Fixture Design, Test Protocols, and Signature Analysis.
Applying science to provide fact based criteria to enhance business decision making.
Extending product life, enhancing profit margins and promoting global competitiveness among remanufacturers.

Operational Assistance

Finding opportunities for companies to improve business and process efficiency, using: Quality Systems, Production Control, Information Technology, Industrial Assessment, Facility Design, Lean/Six Sigma and Ergonomic Health and Safety.
Providing process assessment, quality system development, and logistical support.

Logistics & Policy

Serving as an analysis and information clearinghouse for industry and policy decision-makers.
Providing Life Cycle Analysis to quantify the many logistical aspects of a product's relationship to the environment.

Developing tools and methods to create sustainable product systems that assist manufacturers in becoming more competitive and enhance environmental quality, using: Reverse Engineering, Design for Remanufacture, Competitive Benchmarking and Total Cost of Ownership.
Developing and promoting the use of product and process design strategies that assist companies in creating closed-loop, sustainable product systems that maximize product reuse and remanufacturing.

NC3R's Facilities

NC3R's Training Programs
NC3R is committed to offering technical training to industry members. Learn more about NC3R's RemanU.