Snyder Technical Services is currently engaged
in developing the
engineering and management
processes necessary to implement the Vision for Space Exploration,
including the Moon/Mars Missions. In this role, Snyder was
selected to
critically assess and provide content for the guiding Exploration
Systems Mission Directorate documents developed by multi-center teams
across the Agency.
AT MSFC, Node 2/3 GFE POC services include the following:
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Snyder Technical Services' Risk
Managers provide
day-to-day Continuous
Risk
Management (CRM) support (i.e., facilitate, communicate and track)
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To
get results, the project
manager must relate
well to people, tasks, tools, organizational structure and the
organizational
environment, including the customer community. Snyder's Project
Managers get results by possessing the following attributes:
Benefits from utilizing Snyder
Project
Management
Engineers include:
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Flight
hardware design and
synthesis is required
for projects in the Aerospace and
Defense business. Snyder has the capabilities to do
three-dimensional (3D) solid models of any hardware design. These
models can be integrated into a 3D assembly of a subsystem being
develop
ed. From these models, the part and assembly drawings can
be
produced as needed for hardware fabrication, integration and testing.
Snyder has the capabilities to produce detail design drawings to ANSI
Y14.5M & DoD 100 LEVEL, which are required in the Aerospace and
Defense
business for any flight hardware.
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The mission of
Snyder Technical Services' materials
test group is to test and evaluate
metallic, nonmetallic, and composite materials for their physical
characteristics and engineering properties for proposed applications. Snyder's Materials
Research and Testing Group assist in the development, evaluation,
selection and/or approval of the materias, processes and
manufacturing techniques (or modifications) for use by MSFC and
its contractors. Collectively, we have more than 50 years of experience
in the science, technology and engineering support of
materials, processes and products used in space applications related to
facilities, test articles, flight hardware and other support
equipment.
The Materials and Processing Laboratory
avails us world-class facilities to carry out these activities.
Snyder
Technical Services'
metals engineering
group utilizes
state-of-the-art equipment to
fulfill its mission. We have the capability to forge, roll, spin,
etc. and all metallic-joining processes (such as friction stir,
ultrasonic,
variable polarity plasma arc, tungsten inert gas, electron beam and
welding.) Snyder is capable of developing and characterizing any
number of
materials.
The MFSC test facility has numerous test systems that operate from 0.05
to
1001 kN (0.1 to 225 kip) at –253 to 1093 °C (–423 to 2000 °F)
in air,
nitrogen, and helium. Additional capabilities include a universal
tension torsion test machine and a fastener torque tension test
machine. The facility can determine Young’s, tangent and chord
modulus, as well as measuring hardness and photostress strain.
Snyder is capable of other
nonstandard testing such as simulated service, safe life, and KIe/Kc
modified testing is also available.
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Software
Quality Improvement
| Improvements |
Low |
Median |
High |
data
points |
| Return on
Investment |
2:1 |
3.8:1 |
13:1 |
4 |
| Customer
Satisfaction |
10% |
33% |
55% |
3 |
| Productivity |
11% |
60% |
28% |
4 |
| Quality |
20% |
47% |
72% |
6 |
| Schedule |
15% |
66% |
95% |
11 |
| Cost |
5% |
20% |
83% |
7 |
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For
Extravehicular and Intravehicular Activity support (EVA & IVA),
Snyder
engineering
performs human factors supporting the Human Engineering and Analysis
Team. Snyder engineers participate in KSC test planning for EVA
& IVA
and coordinate Node EVA and IVA HFE labels. Our Human Factors
Engineering work is performed with close coordination with the Nodes
Project, International Space Station Program, contractors and crew.
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Extra Vehicular Activity
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Human Factors Engineering
and Analysis
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KSC Test Planning
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International Space Station
IVA & EVA
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Fit Checks, Demonstrations
and Tests
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Human Engineering
Verification for Nodes EVA
Human Factors is the discipline of designin and implementing
accepted principles of interfacing humans with equipment, machines and
electronics. Within the Aerospace and Defense Community,
Human Factors Engineering is a subsystem under Systems Engineering and
Systems Integration, and specifically addresses the human aspects
relative
to inanimate equipment in one-g and microgravity environments.
The goal of Human Factors Engineering in aerospace
is to provide an efficient design, so that the human performs as
cost-effective and as safely as can be expected within the mission
constraints. Other disciplines benefit from proper human factors,
especially those of logistics, safety and mission operations.
Human factors discipline provides measurable and verifiable design
requirements to such disciplines. Program Management benefits
from
human factors by providing confidence in risk reductions stemming from
cost-efficient designs with multiple levels of redundancy. This
is based
on the properly–equipped and trained human (as a subsystem) providing
creative level of redundancy.
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