Overview

• Content creation – Use intelligent forms and guided authoring enhancements to create S1000D content.
• Business rule validation – Automatically validate content according to project business rules specified in S1000D BREX data modules.
• Advanced S1000D applicability processing – Dynamically filter content according to defined attributes. System interfaces and easy-to-use web forms are provided to keep product attributes up to date.
• Transformation to legacy ATA content – Convert S1000D XML data modules to iSpec 2200 SGML manuals to provide a single, up-to-date format for authors and content consumers. The transformation is a fully automatic process that can also be used to process revisions.
• Revision management – Compare incoming revisions to customized content using intelligent XML differencing algorithms. Rules-based processing of differences speeds the revision acceptance and publication process.
• Content publishing – Output approved content directly to the TechSight/X IETP S1000D module of InfoTrust’s TechSight/X S1000D Edition or as S1000D interchange packages, HTML publications, or PDF files.

Features and Benefits

Importing Content

TechSight/X CMS S1000D provides a range of import utilities depending on the content type. All import utilities are available through a batch importer as well as through the GUI.

Importing Structured Manuals

Structured manuals in the S1000D format can be imported directly into the system. TechSight/X CMS S1000D is Boeing 787 ready, the first commercial aircraft that will be delivered with documentation in the S1000D format.

Structured manuals compliant to the ATA Spec 2200 standard will be converted during the import. This conversion process is a full automatic process which can be used to process revisions as well. Spec 2200 manuals will be broken down into S1000D data modules; for example, an AMM maintenance task will become an S1000D data module.

All content is stored in the central repository of TechSight/X CMS S1000D.

Importing Unstructured Manuals

Many aircraft manuals, especially component manuals, are not structured today. Typically they are PDF files or TIFF images. TechSight/X CMS S1000D has an import process to split unstructured manuals, extract meta data, OCR the content and store it in a semi-structured way according to the S1000D standard.

Extracting the content from an unstructured manual and storing it in a structured form allows you to search over unstructured content and change only parts of the original manual.

Graphics in any format can be imported into TechSight/X CMS S1000D. TechSight/X CMS S1000D fully supports formats such as CGM, SVG, TIFF, PNG, and JPG. Any mime type can be registered with the system.

Storing content

During the import all content is stored in a central repository. All content in the central repository is versioned (with branching), including images, schemas, XML content, unstructured manuals, and stylesheets. The TechSight/X CMS S1000D versioning system ensures full tracing and tracking and the ability to revert to older versions of any content.

Extensive Search dialogs

Search for data analysis or authoring TechSight/X CMS S1000D has extensive search capability for maintenance program tasks, job cards, engineering projects, graphics, structured manuals, and unstructured manuals. Searches can be executed, refined and stored.

Boolean expressions With TechSight/X CMS S1000D specialists can specify over 200 search criteria. Searches can be refined and exported. TechSight/X CMS S1000D supports full-text search with Boolean expressions and wild cards. Besides the standard search functionality, specialists can define XQuery reports.

Search results Searches can be used by subject matter experts for data analysis or by authors to start the authoring process directly from the search result.

Authoring Data Modules

Full support for S1000D TechSight/X CMS S1000D fully supports the S1000D schema. Rich authoring tools are available for all content types.

Authoring Graphics

Embed photos and video in your job cards and manuals TechSight/X CMS S1000D goes beyond graphics, any mime type can be authored in TechSight/X CMS S1000D. Like all content rich media objects are fully versioned in the central repository. Any authoring tool can be used for any media type. Support for rich content finally allows job card authors to embed photos, video, sound bytes, and so on in their job cards.

Batch Authoring

Adding or Removing Tails Special dialogs are available for batch updates of tails. When tails are added or removed only the batch update is run, rather than going over the content one by one.

Regulatory Required Reports

Regulatory report capabilities TechSight/X CMS S1000D has built in report capabilities to run regulatory required reports against the maintenance program. Besides regulatory required reports, several maintenance program reports are available for analysis purposes.

Publishing content

Automatic publishing of modified job cards After setting a job card as reviewed, an automatic publishing process to the delivery system is executed. The delivery system is updated only with the changed content. Automatic delivery ensures that the delivery system is always up to date without any human intervention.

Publishing of all related content of reused fragments When standard texts or reused fragments are modified, a complete republishing of all related content can be executed. This ensures that the delivery system received updates of all cards and manual content that is affected by a change in a standard procedure, caution, text, note, and so on without needing to search and update individual documents.

Workflow

Automatic workflow generation for reviewing related content When maintenance tasks are modified, they can have an effect on existing job cards. Upon checking in a change to a maintenance task, an automatic workflow process is generated notifying job card authors to review relevant job cards related to the changed maintenance task.

Reviewing Cards, Tasks, Engineering Projects, and Manuals

Previewing content TechSight/X CMS S1000D offers quick preview functions to see how the content would be used in various applications. Applicability can be set during the preview function to see how the content is used in different contexts.

Draft publishing TechSight/X CMS S1000D has a built-in publishing engine which can publish content in draft and finalized content in various formats such as HTML and PDF.

Unstructured Manuals

Automatic conversion of unstructured manuals from PDF to S1000D TechSight/X CMS S1000D has a built in conversion utility to convert unstructured manuals from PDF to an S1000D structure. Table of contents structures are generated, unstructured manuals are split into single-page PDFs which made searchable through automatically generated meta data documents.

Revision processing

Import and decomposition Revisions from OEMs are processed. In the case of ATA iSpec 2200 content the incoming revision is split into fragments and new revisions are imported in the content repository.

Conflict resolution As part of the revision process a difference report is produced. TechSight/X CMS S1000D has a conflict resolution tool to merge changes from the OEM and the airline in a side-by-side comparison dialog.

Process Data Module Implementation

Advanced Fault analysis TechSight/X CMS S1000D has a complete implementation of the S1000D Process Data Module which allows engineers to built interactive fault analysis dialogs which are capable of gathering data.

 

Overview

• TechSight/X CMS ATA is the ATA iSpec 2200 authoring module of the TechSight/X system. It contains two sub-components: one for Document Administration functions and another for the authoring interface.
• The TechSight/X CMS ATA Administration sub-component handles the conversion of the manufacturer's SGML data into XML and imports it into the system. It also handles the publishing of the data into our TechSight/X Publisher and TechSight/X IETP ATA products, or back out as airline-authored SGML.
• The TechSight/X CMS ATA Navigator subcomponent allows the technical publication author to make changes to the manual and validate those changes for accuracy. It is also the interface for the changes to be reviewed and conflicts to be resolved when a new version of the manufacturer's data is brought into the system.

• Platform Independent - TechSight/X CMS ATA runs on Windows NT®, Windows 2000®, Windows 2003®, and UNIX systems
• ATA Compliant - TechSight/X CMS ATA uses the ATA iSpec 2200 and major manufacturer DTDs to validate data, ensure authored changes are compliant with ATA rules, and to display the manual in the TechSight/X IETP ATA viewer according to ATA standards.
• Document type compatibility - TechSight/X CMS ATA currently supports the following types of manuals:

• Airframe: FRMFIM, BFIM, IPC, TSM, SDS, SPM, TCM, and WDM
• Engine: EM, EIPC, CIR, and SPM
• Flight Operations: FCOM, MEL/CDL, AOM, QRH, and FCTM
• Company Procedure Manuals

• Manufacturer data compatibility - TechSight/X CMS ATA currently supports the following types of fleets:
• Airbus: A300, A310,A318/319/A320, A330, and A350
• Boeing: 737-300/400, 737-600/700/800/900, 757, 767, 777, 787, MD88, MD95, and MD11
• GE Engines: CF6, CF34, and CFM56
• Pratt Engines: JT8D, 2000, 4052, 4152, and 4460
• Rolls Royce Engines: Trent 800 and V2500

• Data integrity - TechSight/X CMS ATA maintains data integrity through data checking and validation during the import, authoring, and publish processes. The files are maintained through a document management system with document locking and check in/out functionality, so data is never lost.
• Revision support - TechSight/X CMS ATA supports revision updates from the manufacturer with insertion of supplemental data in the form of any recognized file format, imports of SGML temporary revisions (TRs), and full SGML manual revisions. Each revision is incorporated into the manual with conflict resolution for documents that were changed by the airline authors.
• Authoring support - TechSight/X CMS ATA is a full-scale authoring environment for airline tech pubs writers. It supports additions, deletions, and updates to the manufacturer's version with either XMetaL or PTC Arbortext Editor.
• GUI interface - TechSight/X CMS ATA has intelligent user interfaces for both the TechSight/X CMS ATA Administrator and TechSight/X CMS ATA Navigator components. The Administrator is able to start, stop, continue, or rollback an import or publish function. The writer receives dialogs to deal with adding or changing to reduce the amount of human error in filling out metadata.
• Document lifecycle and workflow - TechSight/X CMS ATA maintains a document lifecycle for the manual throughout the system. The manual will pass through the states of Imported, Draft, Validated, Approved, Published, and Released, with each state maintaining integrity of the current and previous versions of the manual.
• Data delivery - TechSight/X CMS ATA has an expanse of data delivery options to choose from. The most common is to publish the manual to our TechSight/X IETP ATA web server. Additionally, the manual can be delivered as a complete SGML manual with our export function, or synchronized with an additional web server or laptop for offline viewing of the manual.
• User based roles - TechSight/X CMS ATA has a security model based on user roles. The user can be classified as a Document Admin, Tech Writer, Reviewer, and/or System Administrator. Each role has certain restrictions and permissions within TechSight/X CMS ATA that control what the user can do.
• System Administrator function - TechSight/X CMS ATA contains advanced system administration functions to keep the system functioning with only scheduled downtime. The system administrator has an interface to delete an invalid manual, kill user sessions, and to have autocompile turned on for easier debugging.
• Documentation - TechSight/X CMS ATA has a built-in help system for easy access to users and an extensive User guide for training users. Additionally, system administrators can read the TechSight/X CMS ATA Architectural overview to be able to administer the system.

Overview

Job cards – Create, edit, and search job cards used to perform routine maintenance. Reuse content from manuals and other work cards to eliminate duplication and increase efficiency. A fully functional WYSIWYG interface is available for job card authoring.

Maintenance program tasks – Create, edit, search, and report on tasks to establish and maintain the approved maintenance program. Program specialists work in an intuitive, browser-based environment, using forms to author maintenance tasks. Task authoring is significantly simplified by lookups from database tables for Reference/Origin/Type, Parts, Tools, Configurations, Skills, Zones, Panels, Circuit Breakers, User Attributes, Group and Tail Effectivity, Failure Effect Categories, and so on.

• Maintenance program tasks: Create, edit, search, and report on tasks to establish and maintain the approved maintenance program. Program specialists work in an intuitive, browser-based environment. InfoTrust TechSight/X CMS Task Card uses advanced browser forms to author maintenance tasks. Task authoring is significantly simplified by lookups from database tables for Reference/Origin/Type, Parts, Tools, Configurations, Skills, Zones, Panels, Circuit Breakers, User Attributes, Group and Tail Effectivity, Failure Effect Categories, etc.
• Job Cards: Create, edit, and search job cards used to perform routine maintenance. Reuse content from manuals and other work cards to eliminate duplication and increase efficiency. A full-blown WYSIWYG interface is available for Job Card authoring.
• Build from AMM information - allows a card to quickly be constructed from maintenance manual data
• Integrate company information - allows mixing company task data with the maintenance data to build a card that is right for the environment it will be used in the system
• Integration with IETP - allows work card information to be distributed along with maintenance data to any web browser
• Conflict Resolution - uses a robust conflict resolution mechanism in order to help an author identify and correct situations where both the work card customizations and the source data were changed during an authoring cycle
• Integration with other systems - can be integrated with existing planning and scheduling systems so that work cards and packages can be delivered to the right place at the right time

Features and Benefits

Authoring Job Cards

Advanced WYSIWYG User Interface TechSight/X CMS Task Card has a full-blown WYSIWYG interface for job card authoring. Besides the WYSIWYG mode, structured authoring is offered with drag and drop support. Many helper dialogs with database-driven lookups support the author in building job cards more efficiently.
Advanced content reuse TechSight/X CMS Task Card enables reuse of content such as standard texts, cautions, warnings, notes, or any fragment from maintenance manuals supplied by the OEM. Job card authors see the entire job card in the authoring environment while reusing fragments from other documents which are clearly defined by a highlighted background. Typically over 95% of the job cards within an airline contain standard texts, standard warnings, cautions and notes. With TechSight/X CMS Task Card these standard texts are maintained only once and reused anywhere.
Positional Cards TechSight/X CMS Task Card fully supports positional job cards where positional card have their own preliminary requirements but fully reuse content from the master positional card. Typically over 20% of the job cards are positional cards which now have to be authored only once instead of keeping redundant copies.
Associate Maintenance Tasks TechSight/X CMS Task Card associates maintenance program tasks with job cards. Job cards authors can therefore significantly improve their efficiency since support dialogs are available to select information from the associated task only.
Tail Effectivity, Location Effectivity, and Company Effectivity Anywhere in the content of the job card effectivity filtering might be applied. Effectivity filtering is not limited to Tail effectivity. Location specific filtering, Company specific filtering etc might apply as well. TechSight/X CMS Task Card effectivity filtering eliminates the need to maintain multiple job cards for various locations, executing parties, and so on.
Authoring Maintenance Program Tasks Advanced browser interface TechSight/X CMS Task Card uses advanced browser forms to author maintenance tasks. Task authoring is significantly simplified by server side lookup from database tables for Reference Origin Type, Parts, Tools, Configurations, Skills, Zones, Panels, Circuit breakers, User attributes, Group and Tail effectivity, Failure effect categories etc.
Integrates with legacy systems TechSight/X CMS Task Card bridges with legacy systems to integrate maintenance documentation with legacy content; for example, to enrich part information with stock data. A generic API is offered to integrate any legacy system with TechSight/X CMS Task Card.
Effectivity Task effectivity can be applied by server side lookups from definition files in the database.

Overview

• Job Cards for engineering modifications: Create collections of engineering job cards for accomplishing required inspections and modifications using intuitive web forms. That information can then be kept in sync automatically with both airline and manufacturer changes to the maintenance data.
• Service bulletin support - allows service bulletins in both SGML and non-SGML format to be imported into the system, and then maintained by the system.
• Airworthiness Directives - maintain airworthiness directives in the same manner as service bulletins.

Features and Benefits

Enginering Projects

Service Bulletin Conversion Incoming service bulletins from OEMs are automatically converted into job cards which can then be authored using the rich authoring environment for work sections within the engineering project.
Bulk Authoring Bulk editing of all the underlying engineering cards for an engineering order significantly reduces the time to select tools, parts, and so on.
WYSIWYG Engineering Card Authoring TechSight/X CMS Task Card offers a WYSIWYG and a structured authoring view for engineering cards

Overview

TechSight/X BPM is a Web application built on the most advanced XML technology to create an innovative, highly flexible framework. It is designed for easy customization for industries where control management is essential to their success. The interface is a Web page, wizard, and dialog box all rolled into one, with the appearance of a Web page. Its innovative design provides maximum usability for a more user-friendly and productive experience.

TechSight/X BPM manages large and complex task-oriented business processes, and gives visibility to the workflow each step of the way. It helps you monitor and respond in real time to process-flow bottlenecks and empty queues, by making the necessary reassignments to keep change requests moving in the most efficient manner. TechSight/X BPM manages the relationships between the different activities in the change request, facilitating the maximum, efficient use of resources. TechSight/X BPM User Inbox displays the work users need to complete according to their user ID. A user can clearly see what work is ready for him to perform, without having to sort through extraneous assignments.

Features and Benefits

TechSight/X BPM reports give up-to-the-minute information on the progress of activities and performers. You can create a new report based on report types set up in the system. Open an existing report of the type you want to run, click Clear to delete the data from the last query, and enter the information you want to search for and then specify how you want the results displayed. Run the report, and the information you queried is returned, exactly the way you specified. Queried information is returned and displayed in grid or summary layout.

There are three default types of reports: change requests snapshot, change packages snapshot, and tasks snapshot. The fields available to query will be customized to your TechSight/X BPM installation. An ad hoc report can be configured in minutes to query any information in the system. Once a report has been configured, it can run one time or become a new report type.

TechSight/X BPM also provides a Dashboard to quickly and easily track the quantitative progress of any metric in a workflow. Create metrics, such as the different stage of an activity in a workflow (such as pending review or pending approval), and set thresholds that cause an alarm or warning to appear in the Dashboard when they are met. There is one Dashboard per user and it only displays information relevant to that user.

For a rapid and immediate indicator of the state of alarms and warnings per user, the TechSight/X BPM Health Level Indicator displays in the lower right corner of the interface. It is a number from 0 to 9 with a background color of green, yellow, or red indicating the status of the metrics configured in the Dashboard in relation to the thresholds set for them. When the status is 0 to 3 the background color is green, which indicates no thresholds are exceeded. When the status is 4 to 6 the background color is yellow, which indicates a warning threshold is exceeded. When the status is 7 to 9 the background color is red, which indicates an alarm threshold has been exceeded. Clicking the Health Level Indicator displays a report with a snapshot of graphs displaying the status of all Dashboard groups and their metrics.

Additionally, TechSight/X BPM provides contextual online help. This user documentation is provided in PDF for the user, but is indexed for direct linking to the correct page - based upon the user’s activity in the application. This documentation was developed using DITA, thereby allowing developers to easily adapt, modify, and publish documentation for a particular customer deployment.

Overview

• Searchable S1000D content - Use configurable search forms to quickly return just the right content. Search results and data modules are filtered for applicability to show only the content that is relevant for the current product being maintained (aircraft, ship, vehicle, etc.).
• Viewable, browsable S1000D content – Navigate through a tree representation of data modules, organized by product and data module code. Browse views are also filtered by the specified applicability conditions.
• Embedded process data module logic engine – Generate interactive, guided user interfaces from standard S1000D process data modules. Use the extensive set of external interfaces to retrieve on-board system parameters, such as pressures and temperatures, which can be used to preselect the correct path in the process logic tree, leading to quicker resolution of maintenance discrepancies.
• Interactive fault troubleshooting – Use data-driven forms and search results to quickly access specific troubleshooting procedures. The search form can be customized according to the product, showing only the relevant search fields.

Specific S1000D Capabilities

• S1000D Data Exchange - InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D also imports supplier data S1000D exchange packages and seamlessly integrates data into the CSDB. When it comes time for content delivery, S1000D data can be exported directly to Airbus creating the correct packing requirements mandated by S1000D. TechSight/X IETP S1000D supports these needs out of the box.
• Provisioning Data - InfoTrust provisioning data specialists have a thorough understanding of engineering data, and years of proven experience in providing thousands of accurate and timely provisioning files for both the OEM manufactures and airline procurement and engineering professionals that rely upon them. TechSight/X IETP S1000D will also provide the capability to author, track and deliver provisioning data to OEM, in iSpec 2000 (ATA standard).
  
  InfoTrust support manufactures and suppliers with:
  
  
• Accurate and timely delivery of T-Files, Recommended Spare Parts Lists, and other provisioning data files
• Assurance that Illustrated Parts Lists (IPLs), S1000D IPD data modules, and T-Files match exactly for consistent pricing and parts listings
• Compliance with standards guidelines, including ATA SPEC 2000, iSpec 2200, and S1000D


• Legacy Specification Support - Lastly, OEMs can also continue to provide technical content to customers in ATA SGML or ATA style PDFs. InfoTrust’s TechSight/X IETP S1000D will continue to support the ability to publish and deliver legacy formats for content needs.
  
  In recent tests, using engine data, InfoTrust demonstrated importing ATA data, authoring in S1000D, delivering S1000D, and converting output to ATA specification iSpec2200.

Features and Benefits

InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D: a Type 2 IETP for delivering Job Cards, Maintenance Visits and Maintenance Manual content.

TechSight/X IETP S1000D is based on the S1000D standard for civil and military aviation which brings essential business benefits for airlines and slashes costs significantly in the hangar as well as at the gate.

TechSight/X IETP S1000D comes with a full conversion utility to convert legacy manuals from the existing ATA iSpec 2200 standard into the new ATA S1000D standard. This enables airlines to use a single integrated system for a mixed fleet environment for content management as well as content delivery today.

Extensive Search dialogs

Search for data analysis or authoring InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D has extensive search capability for maintenance program tasks, job cards, engineering projects, graphics, structured manuals, and unstructured manuals. Searches can be executed, refined and stored.
Boolean expressions With InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D, mechanics and engineers can specify over 200 search criteria. Searches can be refined and exported. InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D supports full text search with Boolean expressions and wild cards.
Search results Searches can be used for mechanics as a tool to find manual components, ad hoc work instructions, or fault analysis procedures.
Tailored Information Effectiveity Filtering Effectivity filtering is applied for searches and content viewing or printing. Popup helper dialogs provide an easy way of specifying effectivity.
Location applicability InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D allows authors to condition content fragments for specific locations such as the Hangar, Line, and the Shop. InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D takes advantage of these conditions by creating views of the content applicable for the location where the maintenance activity takes place. Conditions are supplied as part of the maintenance visit detail or user preferences.
Organizational applicability TechSight/X IETP S1000D is ready for both in- and out-sourcing. Content conditions can be set to specify whether parts of the manual or job cards are visible for organizations executing the maintenance activity. Content is filtered according to security rules. End users will see custom content for their environment. Examples of organizational applicability are: third party vendor, in-sourced from airline X, and so on.
Line maintenance documentation Overnight visits Overnight visits are available through the visit manager. Speed dialogs can open and print multiple visits from the search result dialog.
Ad hoc searches for manual content In time-critical situations at the gate ad hoc searches, fault analysis tools, and predefined solutions significantly reduce the time to get the aircraft back into the air. InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D significantly reduces the time to troubleshoot a problem and find the required maintenance content. The InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D process data module implementation enables a integration of maintenance manual content and fault analysis reducing the time to find the right maintenance content.
Simple and effective User Interface InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D was designed in close partnership with base and line mechanics. The primary design goal was to minimize the effort to find the right maintenance content. InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D benefits from the modular approach of the S1000D standard where maintenance content is dynamically constructed for a particular task or activity. Dynamically assembled maintenance content can contain information from all traditional manuals such as the fault isolation manual, the maintenance manual, the illustrated parts catalog, and so on.
Process Data Module Implementation Interactive fault analysis InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D implements the S1000D Process Data Module, allowing engineers to define interactive fault analysis applications.
Gathering Information Process Data Module documents can be used to gather information during the fault analysis by defining dialogs.
Manual construction Process Data Module execution leads to a sequence of data modules retrieved from the InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D database. A sequence of data modules can be rendered into a resulting ad hoc manual.

S1000D Support

Supported Document Types - The following S1000D supported document types are supported out of the box:

• Crew/operator information
• Description and operation
• Maintenance information
• Maintenance procedures
• Fault isolation
• Nondestructive testing
• Corrosion control
• Storage
• Wiring data
• Illustrated parts data
• Maintenance planning information
• Mass and balance information
• Recovery information
• Equipment information
• Cargo loading information
• Stores loading information
• Role change information
• Illustrated tool and support equipment information
• Service bulletins
• Material data
• Structure repair information
• Cross servicing information
• Engine maintenance information

Overview

InfoTrust is proud to present its industry leading EFB viewer, the TechSight/X IETP EFB. TechSight/X IETP EFB is not just a document viewer, but represents a way of providing your flight operations department with a system that prevents information overload by delivering the right information to the right user at the right time. TechSight/X IETP EFB provides a common user interface and consistent functionality regardless of the environment, whether using the aircraft EFB device, a simulator, a training room, or online with a laptop from home. Because of this commonality personnel will become proficient at finding essential flight operations data efficiently.

Delivering quality, accurate, and reliable operational data is essential in the achievement of operational excellence. In today's value-conscious environment where we must do more with less in a method faster and better than the competition, a comprehensive information delivery and retrieval system is imperative. TechSight/X IETP EFB provides this by merging specialized knowledge and experience with airline business process automation and technology. The synergy that results from this combination is what makes TechSight/X IETP EFB so powerful, unique, and valuable. Its functions and features are designed to provide control and increased efficiency through an integration of a powerful XML server with a intuitive but powerful user interface. The TechSight/X IETP EFB contains the following components:

• EFB Class 2 viewer application
• EFB Class 2 XML server engine
• Ground-based viewer application
• Ground-based XML server and repository
• Aircraft EFB data package assembler application
• Published data import application

Based on a tightly integrated set of best-of-breed technologies, the TechSight/X IETP EFB product suite offers the airline world wide availability of all flight operation information. The individual applications share common software architectures, however, they differ in scope by data set and operational environment. All onboard TechSight/X IETP EFB repositories will be customized with that aircraft specific data. Personnel login in through the web will have complete access to the fleet and enterprise data. 

As your fleet size or composition changes additional TechSight viewers can be installed and available for operations in a matter of minutes.

TechSight/X IETP EFB is also device independent if your preferred choice of EFB device supplier changes in the future. If your operational plans include a mix of Class 3, 2, or 1 devices or several models of aircraft, the flight crews transition time will be reduced due to the common EFB viewer interface.

The Flight Operations and Company Manual Edition provides a direct flow of data from the technical publication group to operational delivery without conversion being necessary. All published content for AOM, MEL, all internal general procedures manuals and company manuals will be available within the TechSight/X IETP EFB.

 

Features and Benefits

TechSight/X IETP EFB delivers powerful functionality for process automation and content delivery, with a distributed and interoperable Web architecture that enables global, transparent access to content. With a full range of integrations with leading XML tools, business users and developers alike can also seamlessly access content from anywhere. The TechSight/X IETP EFB also includes the following key capabilities:

• Functionality that automates the business processes associated with routing, distribution, notification, and auditing of operational content. By automating the tasks associated with using global content, TechSight/X IETP EFB accelerates time to result.
• Robust content management services that manage content storage, versioning, security, tracking, and packaging. TechSight/X IETP EFB can ensure content integrity by eliminating the errors associated with manual content management tasks.
• Capabilities for aggregating relevant content with the appropriate business process support that improves productivity by keeping users in sync with changing content and procedures. 
• A scalable Web-based architecture that integrates with existing enterprise systems and provides a scalable repository, the XML server. This helps to deliver fast-payback applications by eliminating systems integration work and ensuring rapid global deployment. 
• Scalability - As the industry's most scalable solution for airline content management, TechSight/X IETP EFB enables an unlimited number of content viewers, manages massive quantities of content, and delivers content to remote sites with the integrity and security required by today's largest global organizations.
• Security – TechSight/X IETP EFB takes the integrity of your content seriously and protects it through a combination of user and role-based security, as well as extended permissions that control how content is accessed.
• Open Standards - Strict adherence to open standards allows seamless integration with existing business infrastructure, enterprise systems, EFB applications, and development tools. TechSight/X IETP EFB supports market-leading development tools and standards, such as XML, XSLT, DOM, COM, SAX2, DTD, XML Schema, Java EE, Java, and HTML.
• Compliance – TechSight/X IETP EFB is designed following FAA and ATA standards such as ATOS, AD120-76, AD120-76A, and VOLPE Group Human Factors Considerations in the Design and Evaluation of Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs).

Common Architecture:

The common architecture that is used on the aircraft EFB environment and ground based system allows for the availability of the interface and its functionality at 38,000 ft and 0 ft AGL. 

Production of EFB import files:

The Flight Operations and Company Manual Edition can produce documents that follow the DTD of AOM/FCOM, MEL/CDL, and AirBook. These standard DTD type document instances can be imported into the XML content repository through a procedure supplied by InfoTrust.

Viewer Features:

The TechSight/X IETP EFB user interface is optimized with the cockpit ergonomics in mind. Pilot test groups provide valuable feedback to provide an intuitive and robust interface for all operational information.

Below are standard features with detailed descriptions for each function on the unit:

Structural Independent and PDF/Graphics Enabled

Web-Like Navigational Control Buttons

Information Location, Section List, and TOC Panel Visibility

One-Touch Book Navigation

Personal Bookmarks

Personal In-line Notes

Personal Note Links

Zoom Text

Day/Night Mode

Check List

Revision List

Searching

Search Filtering

Table Navigation

Additional Viewer Features:

• Single Point of Access - The TechSight/X IETP EFB viewer application provides a single point of access to information, data, and content. It gives instant access to content and data, and provides the advantage of increasing safety, productivity and efficiency
• Online User Guide and Help File - TechSight/X IETP EFB users can turn to the User Guide and Help Files as needed to help them navigate the application and use the various functions.
• System Administration - TechSight/X IETP EFB allows administrators to easily manage users, groups, and roles through a GUI interface. Groups signify a collection of users. Roles signify permissions that a group or user can be bound to. Access to viewer is also restricted to users based on roles.
• Aircraft data load packaging - This application provides the production of the aircraft TechSight/X IETP EFB library update load. The system creates indexes and filters the data according to effectivity. The created dataset is then packaged into an EFB load file. This system also will allow incremental updates which greatly reduce EFB load file size.

Overview

TechSight/X IETP ATA is a browser-based application designed for delivery of simple to large, complex aerospace documents to the Web and intranets. 

TechSight/X IETP ATA is tailored to maximize shop floor and operations user productivity.  Today there are over 40,000 aircraft mechanics and engineers using InfoTrust technology to access aircraft documentation worldwide.

Overview of Standard Features

• User friendly guided navigation including:
• Electronic table of contents
• Word search (full Boolean, proximity, wild card, and missing character searches)
• Limit by based on various criteria such as phase of flight and effectivity (tail number selection)
• Direct access via ATA Chapter/Section (GoTo function)
• Enhanced electronic troubleshooting and fault isolation tools for improved aircraft dispatch reliability
• Multi-document synchronization (simultaneous view of documents, synchronized to the nearest logical unit level)
• Administrator-definable Viewer Profile
• Inter- and intra-manual linking
• System security features (password protection at system and feature level)
• Integration with the ActiveCGM Graphic Viewer for intelligent graphics support
• In-line graphics and graphic thumb-nails
• API available for integrating TechSight/X IETP ATA to MXI or other M & E automated systems
• Web-browser integration
• PDF integration (Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Revised text lists and navigation
• Optional ERP system integration to IPC parts and nomenclature data
• Ability to link with external files in other formats such as PDF, XML, and HTML
• IPC graphic-to-text navigation tool.
• Robust backtracking and history list functionalities that track viewed documents within and between manuals
• Specialized search tools

Features and Benefits

Manual and Document Access

The TechSight/X IETP ATA opening screen provides simple point-and-click access to the model and document type

Magnifier

The fully integrated ActiveCGM Viewer features a magnifier with scalable zoom that magnifies the portion of the graphic where the mouse pointer is pointing and puts it in a separate zoomed popup window. This makes it easy to view portions of a graphic quickly without losing perspective of the entire graphic.

ATA GoTo and Shortcut Function

The ATA GoTo function allows users to go directly to the chapter, section, or pageblock of their choice, without the need to tediously drill down through the hierarchy of a table of contents. Users can also specify the ATA topic of interest, thereby limiting the pageblocks they need to view and shortening lookup time.

Intelligent Graphics Capability

The fully integrated ActiveCGM Viewer features intelligent graphics capability.

Animation

The integrated ActiveCGM Viewer component of TechSight/X IETP ATA provides the capability to use animation for online demonstration of how to assemble and disassemble key components.

Full, Vertical, Horizontal, and Three Window Views

TechSight/X IETP ATA provides full, vertical, horizontal, and three window split views with just a simple point and click on the View drop-down menu.

Limiting Operation by Effectivity

The Limit By function allows you to limit the display of information from the Table of Contents, the GoTo function, Search, and so on, to only those document units which apply to the airplanes selected.

Searching

The Search function in TechSight/X IETP ATA enables users to get to their search target quickly and easily. TechSight/X IETP ATA highlights the search target, or hit, within the table of contents and permits users to navigate to other hits.

Part Number Searches

Searching for part numbers in TechSight/X IETP ATA is easy, particularly when you type in the alpha or numeric character to select corresponding part numbers.

Graphic Thumbnails

TechSight/X IETP ATA allow the user to view all the graphics from the current document unit in a popup window.  By clicking on a graphic title in the popup window, the selected graphic will be displayed in the main graphic frame.

Online User Guide and Help File

TechSight/X IETP ATA users can turn to the User Guide and Help Files as needed to help them navigate the application and use the various functions.

Overview

With TechSight/X IETP E-Task Card, task cards and engineering documents can be distributed electronically using existing planning systems, eliminating paper sign-offs and record keeping, which results in substantial measurable cost savings, allows technicians access to task cards via wireless devices and print on demand with electronic sign-off at kiosks where wireless is not available or practical. TechSight/X IETP E-Task Card utilizes a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable communication to Maintenance and Engineering, security, records, and other systems via web services.

 

Features and Benefits

Key Features

• Import and store task card masters including illustrations
• All major features exposed as web services to work with existing planning/scheduling systems
• Assigns cards to aircraft, station, and technician
• Role-based electronic signing, un-signing, partial signing, and data entry
• Role- and state-based workflow
• Renders as TIFF or PDF image for records archive

Overview

InfoTrust Process Data Module Logic Engine for S1000D

The S1000D Process Data Module specification is a standard for interactive processing structures resulting in a sequence of data modules. Example usages are:

• Interactive Fault Analysis applications
• Guidance applications for complex procedures
• Product advisory applications such as: "Which laptop should I choose?"
• Interactive market surveys

Although the S1000D Process Data Module is an S1000D standard which primarily targets interactive fault analysis, the specification itself is useful in a broader sense beyond the Aerospace and Defense industry.

Logic Engine

A Logic Engine implementation is capable of compiling Process Data Modules and present this as an interactive application to the end user. Besides an interactive, web-based application the TechSight/X Logic Engine can be published as a PDF document.

TechSight/X Logic Engine offers an interactive, wizard-like web application to the end user, where the end user is guided through the process defined in the Process Data Module, ensuring that all steps in a procedure or fault isolation are followed. The wizard-like web interface helps the end user by supplying additional information and by interfacing to external systems or devices.

Logic inside the document eliminates the need for custom development

TechSight/X Logic Engine eliminates the need to change your application whenever your process changes. With the Process Data Module the logic is part of the document. Whenever procedures or processes change you only have to change the Process Data Module content which is interpreted by the logic engine. Eliminating the need to reprogram your logic significantly reduces costs of operations in a changing world.

Overview

TechSight/X Publisher has been specifically designed to meet requirements from the aerospace market regarding publishing on demand. Each TechSight/X Publisher function has been developed with XML in mind to enable users to make full use of rich XML content with superior content publishing and distribution performance.

Thanks to its innovative technology, TechSight/X Publisher reaches unmatched efficiency and performance levels in the world of XML publishing and distribution, while needing minimum hardware and software resources:

• TechSight/X Publisher publishes indexes and searches rich XML/SGML documents containing structured, semi-structured or unstructured content, as well as non-XML documents.
  
• Thanks to the InfoTrust publishing technology, the application can be customized to specific customer’s needs, increasing data access and retrieval.
• InfoTrust’s dynamic indexing and distribution engines allow for real-time content modifications that can be viewed instantly by end-users. The content published by the application is always up-to-date and reliable.
• Full control of the published master for on-ground and on-board distribution ensures content integrity and reliability.
• Features allow for backed-up and restoration of published and/or distributed document(s) and/or publications.
• End users can concentrate their efforts on day-to-day efforts while relying on TechSight/X Publisher for publishing, distribution, and publication control.

Overview

TechSight/X Portal is designed to save airline personnel and related companies time and money by establishing an Internet platform for electronic data transfer (EDT) of technical aviation information. Over this secure Web site, member companies can distribute technical documentation and other time-sensitive information to end users in near real-time. Member companies can also distribute password-protected information to any of their own employees or authorized third-party users around the world who have Web access. Even large documents can be distributed using custom interfaces (for example, AMMs and IPCs can be distributed over the Internet using TechSight/X IETP).

TechSight/X Portal also serves as a backup and disaster recovery for access to digital data. Operating within the highly secured InfoTrust hosting center, it provides 24/7 services consisting of system monitoring, fault tolerant Internet connectivity, fault tolerant electrical power, protocol load balancing, and premises access security and support.

Features and Benefits

Portlets

Access to portlets is restricted to users based on roles. Portlets can also be disabled by the end user if not needed. TechSight/X Portal's portlets are divided in to four categories: core, user selectable, optional, and custom.

Core Portlets

The core portlets are always available to the user and come out-of-the box with TechSight/X Portal. They include:

• Document Library (for posting technical documents like CMMs)
• TechSight/X IETP (allows access to TechSight/X IETP from within TechSight/X Portal’s interface)
• Search
• Bookmarks
• Recent Documents

User Selectable Portlets

Users, depending on their individual needs, can add the user selectable portlets. They come out-of-the box with TechSight/X Portal and include

• Weather
• Calendar

Optional Portlets

• Message Board
• Company Announcements
• Airline Industry News
• Directory
• Projects

Custom Portlets

InfoTrust can build custom portlets based on your requirements. Examples include:

• Access to External Enterprise Applications
• Employee profiles
• Human Resources (HR) forms like sick leave request
• Tracking of engineering orders incorporation by the Technical Publications Department

InfoTrust can also create portlets that will allow access to other enterprise applications like ERP systems for parts ordering and inventory.

• Mail – allows end users to access their company e-mails from within TechSight/X Portal’s interface. This requires the integration of TechSight/X Portal with the airline’s mail server.
• Shopping – provides shopping cart functionalities and the ability to create an online store with online payments.

Portal Administration

TechSight/X Portal allows administrators to easily manage users, groups, and roles through a GUI interface. Groups signify a collection of users. Roles signify permissions that a group or user can be bound to. Access to portlets is also restricted to users based on roles. Administrators can also specify community pages so that all users who belong to a certain group see the same page.

Personalization

Portlets can be rearranged to the unique preferences (color, screen layout, portlets, etc.) of a user or community.

Online Distribution of Aerospace Technical Documentation

Documents can be distributed via TechSight/X Portal. Large documents can be distributed using custom interfaces (for example, AMMs and IPCs can be distributed over the Internet using TechSight/X IETP or other OEM Viewers can be distributed via Citrix).

Document Distribution

TechSight/X Portal is a neutral site for distributing aerospace documentation that allows complete control of revision and distribution cycles:

• Simple mechanism for posting and uploading documents and Internet links.
• Fast and efficient methods to search for specific documents or links.
• Highly secured site providing firewall technology and password protection.
• Document access functionality giving direct control over who can view documents.
• “My Favorites” page allowing for access to predefined drill down and search queries.
• Email alerts to provide notification of new document postings.
• Document ownership transfer - allowing the transfer of control from one user to another.
• Logging capabilities including document and user statistics, document transfer tracking and document alert statistics.

TechSight/X Portal’s Document Library Section provides all the functionality required to manage documents, to filter views of accessed documents, and find documents with specific attributes, such as aircraft type or data provider.

Integration with TechSight/X IETP

The TechSight/X IETP portlet allows access to TechSight/X IETP from within TechSight/X Portal’s interface.

Overview

TechSight/X Graphics provides capability to view, print and convert graphic data. Graphic formats supported are:

• TIFF CCITT4
• CGM4
• JPEG

This graphic component is available as an ActiveX and can be integrated in the web application. It is available also as a COM component.

The graphic component also includes a graphic converter:

• SGML/XML to TIFF
• CGM to SVG
• CGM to TIFF or BMP

The platforms supported are Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and XP. Preliminary test with AirGTI DV32 and DV only Vista did not show any problem.

Overview

• Maintenance visit management – Import maintenance visit requirements from existing scheduling systems. Automatically assemble required job cards based on visit requirements. Batch print maintenance visits to system printers using the included print management server.
• Coordinated access panel open/close – Autopopulate access panel cards during visit creation. Only panels that are required to be opened for that visit will be listed, along with the list of job cards requiring access through that panel.
• Integrated materials management information – Interface with existing materials management systems to include real time part and stock information in displayed job card content.

Features and Benefits

Base maintenance visit manager

Interfacing scheduling and planning systems InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package integrates with existing planning and scheduling systems to retrieve scheduled visits by location. Integration can be built based on the InfoTrust TechSight/X IETP S1000D application programming interface. Visits can be updated from external systems by adding, removing or overriding particular visits jobs.

Check matrix InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package has a unique way of compiling the work package per visit. The check matrix is part of the job card based on check type and effectivity assignment. When a visit is opened InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package will collect all relevant job cards for the specified visit based on the check matrix requirements. From that moment on job cards become active documents specific for the selected visit. The content is therefore automatically tailored for the visit on a specific date and location executed by a particular maintenance organization.

Visit status The InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package visit manager keeps track which visits are in which state. Visits go from initialized to open and from closed to an archived state.

Printing packages Visits can be printed by selecting either the entire visit, specific workcard types such as Engineering Cards, Panel Cards, Monitors, and Log Pages, or by job ranges. Print dates are stored in InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work package and reprints show copy watermarks. Visits are printed to print queues. A print API is available to monitor spooling to the local or remote printer and to provide error handling.

Tally, Tools, and Parts reports Tally, Tools, Parts, Notes, and Drawing reports are available for a visit in both HTML and PDF formats.

Visit, Job signoffs InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package generates controlling documents when visits are opened such as a visit and job signoff cards. Access panel tables are automatically filled based on the configuration of the aircraft and specific visit requirements.

Complete Archive database InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package maintains a complete archive of past visits. Closed visits are stored in a separate archive database. The InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package application can connect to the active and the archive databases where search, analysis, viewing, and printing capabilities are available for the entire archive.

Line maintenance documentation

Overnight visits Overnight visits are available through the visit manager. Speed dialogs can open and print multiple visits from the search result dialog.

Ad hoc searches for manual content In time-critical situations at the gate, ad hoc searches, fault analysis tools, and pre-defined solutions significantly reduce the time to get the aircraft back into the air. InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package significantly reduces the time to troubleshoot a problem and find the required maintenance content. The InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package process data module implementation enables a integration of maintenance manual content and fault analysis reducing the time to find the right maintenance content.

Simple and effective User Interface InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package was designed in close partnership with base and line mechanics. The primary design goal was to minimize the effort to find the right maintenance content. InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package benefits from the modular approach of the S1000D standard where maintenance content is dynamically constructed for a particular task or activity. Dynamically assembled maintenance content can contain information from all traditional manuals such as the fault isolation manual, maintenance manual, and illustrated parts catalog.

Process Data Module Implementation

Interactive fault analysis InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package implements the S1000D Process Data Module allowing engineers to define interactive fault analysis applications.

Gathering Information Process Data Module documents can be used to gather information during the fault analysis by defining dialogs.

Manual construction Process Data Module execution leads to a sequence of data modules retrieved from the InfoTrust TechSight/X Job Card, Visit and Work Package database. A sequence of data modules can be rendered into a resulting ad-hoc manual.

 

Overview

InfoTrust ATA iSpec 2200 to S1000D Conversion Tool

Start using S1000D today

InfoTrust ATA iSpec 2200 to S1000D conversion tool, TechSight/X Converter ATA2S1000D, allows customers to convert legacy ATA iSpec 2200 data into S1000D data modules. S1000D offers tremendous opportunities to streamline aircraft documentation however for existing fleets all content is typically available in the ATA iSpec 2200 SGML format. TechSight/X Converter ATA2S1000D's conversion utility overcomes this challenge by a full automatic conversion from ATA iSpec 2200 to S1000D data modules enabling customers to benefit from S1000D today. Revision packages from OEMs such as Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer can be processed by the conversion tool to process updates without the need to rekey content.

TechSight/X Converter ATA2S1000D’s conversion utility preserves the original ATA structure by generating S1000D Publication Modules. All content is converted into Data Modules. TechSight/X Converter ATA2S1000D’s conversion utility takes into account the differences in the input ATA iSpec 2200 content for various fleets.