TechSight/X Editions Aircraft Maintenance

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TechSight/X Aircraft Maintenance Edition - provides accurate, quality-assured configuration control of airline technical documentation in support of maintenance and engineering operations. This edition enables technical authors and publishers to create new versions of airline-specific, ATA- and S1000D-compliant manuals prompted by newly issued OEM revisions and other change triggers.

Overview

Streamlining Aircraft Maintenance

InfoTrust TechSight/X Aircraft Maintenance Edition is an XML- based content management and delivery system for aircraft maintenance documentation implemented according to S1000D and ATA.

InfoTrust TechSight/X Aircraft Maintenance Edition is a combination of InfoTrust products for the aerospace and aviation industries. S1000D and ATA are international specifications for the production of technical publications. They have been adopted by major airliners and aerospace manufacturers.

Industry organizations believe that major airlines could save $25 to 30 million over five years by implementing TechSight/X Aircraft Maintenance Edition.

Manufacturers are beginning to supply manuals for newer planes in S1000D format: Boeing, for example, is supplying documentation for its 787 in S1000D. But manuals for older aircraft may only be available in SGML or proprietary formats, and many manuals, such as component maintenance manuals, are only available in paper form.

A key capability of the TechSight/X Aircraft Maintenance Edition is its ability to ingest content in many different formats and migrate it as an option to S1000D so that it is restructured for reuse and repurposing.

The TechSight/X Aircraft Maintenance Edition contains two parts, a content creation part (CMS), TechSight/X CMS S1000D and a delivery system, TechSight/X IETP S1000D. In the CMS manuals, tasks and work cards are authored and published. In the delivery system, engineers can view cards, visits, and manuals, and are able to print work card for specific visits. Both the CMS and the delivery system have extensive search possibilities to enable end-users to search through the content base based on tail numbers, planned checks, or by context-based full-text search.

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Features and Benefits

Key benefits are:

Savings from labor efficiencies, for both hangar and line maintenance. Line maintenance efficiencies offer the greatest opportunity for cost savings, because nearly all line maintenance activities are not routine, so the ability to dynamically generate job cards with tailored work instructions for line technicians and mechanics is particularly valuable.
Additional savings by accelerating line maintenance activities at the gate (thus reducing flight delays). The more quickly one can put relevant and current documentation directly into the hands of the mechanic at the gate, the more quickly the mechanic can fix the problem and release the flight.
Improving overall processes for managing and distributing technical documentation, including:

The ability to eliminate hard copy manuals and the hand processing required to image and distribute them
The ability to route documents via a workflow process rather than via manual routing
The ability to manage an airline's component maintenance manuals and electronically distribute them to an airline's maintenance vendors)
The ability to deliver current, customized, and complete content on demand over the Web – ensuring that the airline's maintenance sites, service vendors and outsourcers remain in compliance with its current revisions in accordance with government (FAA) regulations