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  • Shock/Vibration Isolation
  • Ergonomics Involved in Mobility Design for Transport, Set-Up and Operation
  • Self-Sustaining Features Involved in Mobile design
  • Designing a System for a Life Cycle
  • Knowledge of Mobility/Roadability Requirements Unique to Industry
Shock/Vibration Isolation. Depending on the specific transportability requirements, our engineers and technicians have the responsibility for packaging fragile equipment to withstand the associated shock and vibration experience during transport. Design options include rack & enclosure design, shock isolator/dampening, and transport tiedown systems. Here, the fragility of the equipment, the environment encountered and the suspension of the transport vehicle are all examined and modeled for overall system characteristics.

Ergonomics Involved in Mobility Design for Transport, Set-Up and Operation.
 For a mobile system, PTS designers examine design for ergonomic acceptability in three distinct configurations. The system is evaluated in the transport configuration, which may or may not require operation during transport, the set-up configuration, where the ease of setting up and preparing for transport is evaluated, and the operational configuration, where the system is used by operational personnel. It is imperative that a synergy of the three configurations is achieved, for overall system performance.

Self-Sustaining Features Involved in Mobile Design. PTS always includes a detailed analysis of required self-sustaining features in mobile systems design. Power hook-up, as an example, often includes a means of generation of on-board power, slaved power from the vehicle transporting the system and/or connecting to an on-site commercial power source. Mobile systems must also incorporate many features taken for granted in a fixed building such as air conditioning, ergonomic provisions for operating personnel (seating, lighting, aisle space), refrigeration, workspace, and built in test equipment (BITE), spare parts and repair equipment for troubleshooting and maintenance. Each of these requirements, in turn require analysis for overall system power, weight, center of gravity, to insure satisfactory system performance.

Designing a System for a Life Cycle. Each design by PTS is accomplished using a comprehensive systems engineering approach and takes into account the "-ilities" of design. Reliability, Maintainability, Serviceability, Produceability, Logistics Supportability; all of these factors are evaluated throughout the design cycle, from concept development on. Modeled after the Department of Defense's MIL-STD-1521 Project Cycle, this approach eliminates the surprises and deficiencies that are often found after manufacture of a less thoroughly designed system.

Knowledge of Mobility/Roadability Requirements Unique to Industry.. PTS engineers are well versed in applicable Military and Federal Standards, Internationale Systems Organization (ISO), Department of Transportation (DOT), American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM), International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) standards to name a few.
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