HOUSTON, Texas – Oceaneering International, Inc. (“Oceaneering”) has expanded the in-house manufacturing capabilities of its Oceaneering Space Systems (OSS) business with a newly certified ISO Class 8 clean room at its Houston facility, enabling the business to support equipment and components requiring a controlled clean-room environment.
The third-party-certified clean room allows OSS to process equipment in an ISO Class 8 environment that it could not accommodate previously, expanding its ability to support current and future customer programs.
Kirsten Whittingham, Vice President and General Manager, OSS, said: “The addition of this clean room represents an important investment in our manufacturing capabilities and the evolving needs of our customers. It gives our team another tool to support programs with specific environmental requirements while building on the engineering, manufacturing, and testing capabilities we already provide in Houston.”
Applications for the clean room include thermal protection system work and certain electrical component assembly requiring controlled environmental conditions.
The new capability complements OSS’s broader manufacturing, assembly, and testing capabilities at its AS9100D- and ISO 9001:2015-certified Houston facility, including precision machining, flight-certified soft-goods fabrication, electronics fabrication and assembly, thermal and vibration testing, and inspection capabilities.
OSS delivers mission-critical hardware, engineering, and manufacturing solutions for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), commercial space, and defense customers. From design and development through manufacturing, certification, testing, and sustainment, OSS applies decades of spaceflight experience to technologies engineered for space and other harsh environments.
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