Training and Consulting Services
We provide training and consulting services in the following areas:
Design for Sustainability Principles
How do you design your new product/process or improve your existing design of a product/process to be more sustainable?
Our training and/or consulting services will enable you to:
- Use sustainability principles in designing your products and services
- Apply sustainability principles in Systems Engineering -V Process
- Learn real world examples of products and processes that are designed using sustainability principles
- Learn exceptions to sustainability principles
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Life Cycle Assessment
How do you benchmark your products with your competitors' from sustainability point of view? Life Cycle Assessment is a process by which, for example, you can determine how much GHG emissions are released during the design or manufacturing or use phases of your product.
We provide training and/or consulting services that enables you to:
- Understand International Standards (ISO) on Life Cycle Assessment
- Use of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) database to calculate GHG emissions
- Use of Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University's Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA) database to calculate GHG emissions
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using the above databases
- Learn how to customize these databases to your needs
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Life Cycle Costing
It is not enough that your products are more sustainable than that of your competitors. The cost to design, manufacture, distribute, use, and dispose also have to be competitive to have a sustainable business. How do you benchmark your products with your competitors' from cost point of view? Life Cycle Costing is a process by which, for example, you can determine the cost of your system to design, manufacture, and to maintain & operate to that of your competitors.
We provide training and/or consulting services that enables you to:
- Learn components in Life Cycle Costing
- R&D Cost
- Procurement Cost
- Operations & Support Cost
- Disposal Cost
- Estimate labor cost
- Learn various cost estimating methods
- Expert Opinion
- Analogy
- Parametric
- Engineering Estimate
- Learning curve, Quantity discount, inflation, etc.
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Business Case Analysis
Business Case Analysis (BCA) is a structured methodology where alternatives are compared by examining business impacts in terms of financial and non-financials. The methodology we use is based on DOD Product Support Business Case Analysis Guide.
The following are the key elements that our Business Case Analysis training and/or consulting service focuses on:
- Problem Statement
- Project Scope
- Ground Rules and Assumptions
- Methods and Tools
- Evaluation Criteria
- Current Baseline and Alternatives
- Financial and Technical Impacts
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Risk Analysis
Risk is a measure of future uncertainties in achieving expected performance goals within the limits of constrained resources such as money, time, and people. Risk has three components: Future root cause (an event), assessing the probability at the present time of that event happening, and effect/consequences if that event happens.
The following are the key elements that our Risk Analysis training and/or consulting service focuses on:
- Risk and Issues
- Sources of Risks
- Cost Risk and Uncertainties
- Independent and Dependant Variables
- Determining Uncertainties
- Risk Distribution
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Correlation Matrix
- Risk Management Process
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