BONN January 12th 2000

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• BONN - January 12th 2000

NATO IETP/M harmonization meeting GIFAS
presentation
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Meeting Agenda

• IETPs policy in France
• Rafale documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Helicopters documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Issues and major concerns

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Meeting Agenda

• IETPs policy in France
• Rafale documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Helicopters documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Issues and major concerns

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IETPs Policy in FRANCE

• National  paper oriented specifications widely
  used for existing programs (AIR106x, MAT2000x),
• From 1998 definition of a  Documentation
  Harmonisation group  under French MOD chair
• Goal to define an IETP policy and documentation
  recommandations, available for all new french MOD
  programs.
• Organization
• MOD reps including Army, navy, Air-force
• Industry reps including GIFAS/GICAT/SPER...

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Meeting Agenda

• IETPs policy in France
• Rafale documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Helicopters documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Issues and major concerns

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Rafale tech Pub process highlights

• Paperless digital information technology
• Organization
• Aecma principles Data Modules, CSDB
• Close integration between provisionning data and
  procedural information
• CSDB and publication process managed by airforce
  (Galilée system)
• Intensive re-use of Design Data
• (Digital mock-up, LSA...)

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Operational documentation requirements

• In 1991 the French MOD lay down the requirement
  to use paperless digital information technology
  for the Rafale program technical publications.
• The approach to satisfy the requirement was to be
  
• common for both Air Force and Navy
• applicable to aircraft, engine, avionics,
  armaments, airborne and ground equipment
• durable throughout the program life cycle.

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Aecma 1000D technical answer

• Use of Aecma 1000D with an application protocol
• Defined by the main industrial partners involved
  in the Rafale program
• Sponsored and approved by the French MOD
• to establish the Rafale documentation process
  organization and its AECMA 1000D
  implementation rules

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Rafale documentation system Aecma 1000D

• Common Source Data Base (CSDB)
• standards
• SGML
• CGM (ISO 8632 1992) MILD 28003 (A)
• CCITT gr IV MILR 28002B
• JPEG
• Management of the CSDB (by French Air Force),
  filled with informations delivered by different
  industrial companies
• Publication and electronic browsing

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Rafale documentation system
Electronic publications (IETP )
SED Electronic viewing system
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Rafale documentation system
Common Source Data Base Managed by French
Air Force
Electronic publications (IETP )
SID Documentation Information System
SED Electronic viewing system
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Rafale documentation system
Data Modules Providers
Common Source Data Base Managed by French
Air Force
Electronic publications (IETP )
SID Documentation Information System
DASSAULT AVIATION
THOMSON-CSF
SNECMA
SED Electronic viewing system
NAVY and AIR FORCE
MATRA BAe DYNAMICS
OTHERS
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SID Design criteria

• Long term life cycle
• Reliability
• Management of confidentiality
• Evolution capabilities Architecture is
  independent of
• DTDs
• profiles
• consultation format

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SID Software architecture
Transformation to consultable publication
Publication forms
Data Module Reception
Publication
CALS format (SGML-HyTime)
C S D B
RDBMS (Oracle 7)
Remarks Management
SID
Administration
Documentation information System
SED
Documentation Display System
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SID Functions input and storage

• Reception
• Automatic syntactical controls
• Hyperlink and anchor control
• Multiple versions of DTD's and CGM profile can
  be parsed
• Stored exactly as delivered
• CSDB management
• Storage, consultation, archiving
• The last version of each DM is active
• Administration

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SID Publication production and management

• Content definition of the publications
• Production of publications in 2 steps
• Intermediate format
• Hyperlink resolution and generated lists
• Electronic publication construction
• Index for full text search, WORM recording

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SID Publication production and management
CSDB
IETP
IETP
Transformation process
Stable / neutral form S G M L HyTime XML
evolutive
DOCUMENTATION
COMPUTERIZED DOCUMENTATION
CONSULTATION
International rules specifications
Stable solutions
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SID Publication production and management
CSDB
IETP
IETP
Transformation process
Stable / neutral form S G M L HyTime XML
evolutive
IETP
W.W.W
DOCUMENTATION
COMPUTERIZED DOCUMENTATION
CONSULTATION
International rules specifications
Stable solutions
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Publication Characteristics

• Publication in intermediary form
• self-sufficient neutral (SGML/Hytime/xml) form
• independant from browsing system
• independant from delivery support
• canvas consultable Entities inter-entities
  navigation links
• Publication in consultable form
• Defined by taking into account the browsing
  system (based on Synex Viewport for the Rafale
  SID)
• Publication in intermediate form browser
  system specificities inter-publications
  navigation links

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Galilee SED Main functions

• Reception
• Publications input, delivered both on CD-ROMs and
  on disks (flashes)
• Browsing
• Publication viewing, including direct access and
  hyperlinks processing
• User customisation
• extraction
• Information extraction, for printing or for
  softwares processing
• Remarks management
• User remarks recording and SGML output

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Galilée development plan

• Operational SID system was delivered end 1998
• Operational SED system was delivered december
  1999
• based on Synex viewport technology
• The whole documentation process
• Has been already tested in 1998 with real Data
  Modules
• Is fully operational now in order to produce
  technical publications in time for Navy's first
  aircraft delivery mid 2000.

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Meeting Agenda

• IETPs policy in France
• Rafale documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Helicopters documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Issues and major concerns

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Main requirements

• increase Customer satisfaction
• by replacing paper documentation with IETP
• evolve to Internet/Intranet distribution
• same helicopter airframe can be used for military
  / civilian customer
• ATA2100 / AECMA1000D source documentation
• legacy technical documentation

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Software System Overview
INDOC Publisher
INDOC CD-ROM
SPLITVISION AERO Software Package
Docmust interface Programs
ATA 2100 data preparation
Docmust Data Base
SGML files
BUILDER
Data Extract Control
AECMA 1000D data preparation
- Manuals - Viewer - Install Programs
PDF files
INDOC WEB DB
Miscellaneous proprietary format
Data convertion
Others Data Bases
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ATA 2100 data preparation

• Split SGML Documents (AMM,IPC,SDS, ) into
  Documentary Units (ie data module)
• DU
• metadata
• Build (author) tables of content
• manual / system / others
• list effective documentary unit
• CDROM status
• resolve links
• inside a DU
• from DU to DU

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INDOC is DB-oriented
Toc System
HyTime ilink,nameloc, ... used for
expressing Toc, Loedu, link,
Toc AMM
Toc Schedule
Toc SDS
Toc IPC
Converted to Synex proprietary linking format
(clink, )
DU type SGML texts PDF
page Video
List of Effective DUs
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AECMA 1000D data preparation

• Build (author) tables of content
• manual / system / others
• list effective documentary unit
• CDROM status
• resolve links
• inside a DU
• from DU to DU

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Meeting Agenda

• IETPs policy in France
• Rafale documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Helicopters documentation System overview
• Approach, Standards, Softwares
• Issues and major concerns

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Issues and major concerns

• ASSETS of the Aecma concept for us are
• Its modularity approach
• well prepared for web and/or xml delivery
• well designed for work sharing and concurrent
  engeenering
• The generic model of IETP
• (one DTD for all IETPs)
• The management information data at the right
  level of structuration

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Issues and major concerns

• The building IETP process in 2 steps
• with an intermediate form
• and a consultable form,
• The intermediate form is neutral form independant
  from viewing and delivery systems
• It could be normalized and expressed in XML
  technologies
• IETP definition (generic content and structure)
• Links model definitions
• Structures of data to be specific or generated

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Issues and major concerns

• The consultable form is deeply connected to
  viewing tools and program requirements
• there will be too much effort to reach on time an
  agreement on this topic

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Issues and major concerns

• The consultable form is deeply connected to
  viewing tools and program requirements
• there will be too much effort to reach on time an
  agreement on this topic

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Questions

Answers
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IETP building process
Generic content model
data-modules gathering criteria
Publication canvas
consultable form Choice
Publication building
CSDB
Publication
Publication DTD
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Generic content model

• The Ietp generic content model define all types
  of elements that may be included within an IETP.
  These types are
• Souce Data-modules
• Specific data
• IETP Introduction
• IETP access table
• IETP status
• Generated data
• list of supply, list of spares...
• Specific ietp generated list (ie highlight)

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Generic content model canvas

• The IETP canvas may contain
• The IETP status
• The complete list of souce data-modules which may
  be accessed within the IETP
• The list of  generated list  that have to be
  generated
• All specific data SGML files (ie introduction,
  status, toc)
• The necessary information for anchor management
  (these which can t be deduce at the CSDB level).
• (ie inter-publication links)

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IETP DTD

• The IETP intermediary form is a SGML file (with
  illustrations in CGM or CCITT gr IV/ Jeg files).
• It conform to the IETP DTD.
• This DTD principle consist in calling all kind of
  data defined within the generic model
  (data-modules, specific data, generated lists).
• This DTD is unique for all IETP S.

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IETP building process 1/2
Specific data
Generated lists
Génération
List of DM
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IETP building process 2/2
Determination of browsing form
Specific data Source DM Generated data
IETP X end-user form
Publication X neutral form
Inter-ietp links managt
Links implementation
Other ietps neutral form
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SID Publication production and management
Consultable form evolutive
MONITORING
Neutral form (Stable)
IETPs
Import fromconceptionsystems
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
IETPPREPARATION
RECEPTION
IllustrationsCGMCCITT gr. IV Jpeg
SGML
TextSGML
www
CSDB
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Galilée SID architecture
STABLE form
EVOLUTIVE form
Manufacturer/Providers
Publication available for consultation
DM delivery
Publicationcanvas
Users'remarks
CSDB management
Reception
SGML/Hytime publication
Qualification
Electronic consultation system (SED)
Temporary CSDB
CSDB
Publication available for consultation
Aecma publication
Reception
Publication
Document Database