IETM in the Swedish Defence Industry

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IETMin the Swedish Defence Industry

• Carl-Johan Wilén
• Saab AB - Gripen
• Customer Support

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IETM in the Swedish defence industryContent

• Celsius Bofors Weapon Systems
• Kockums - Shipyards (HDW)
• Gripen publications
• Situation today
• Industry goals

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Corner stones
CONFIG MANAGM
STANDARDS
PROCESS
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Evaluation of SW and Standards
Adept Editor
HTML
FrameMaker
CGM
XML
DEF-STAN 00-60
Grund-DTD
SGML
Astoria
IM
AECMA 1000D
FMSDUP
Interleaf
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Solution
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IETM in the Swedish defence industryKockums
The Visby-class Corvett
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IETM in the Swedish defence industryKockums
Technique - Standards
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FMSDUPSwedish Defence Material Administrations
System for Digital Maintenace Publications
Production
Use
Approval Preparation
DynatextNetscape
Administrative data
Administrative data
Creation of SGML coded information. Packed and
delivered as Data Modules
Approval of technical content
Preparation of IETP
Delivery control
Checker
Forces
Industry
Authority
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IETM in the Swedish defence industry The
situation today

• A Norwegian - Sweden IETP-day was held in Sept 99
• 5-6 presentations of Tech Doc solutions and IETP
  implementations
• In summary
• There is hell of a lot of money available!
• Both in industry and in the projects
• We should share information/experience to save
  money and time
• FMV has to have a common approach

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IETM in the Swedish defence industry The
situation today

• Each project makes its own decisions
• Most (all?) projects demands digital deliveries
• SGML FMV-Base-DTD or FMV-Grund-DTD
• Heavy movement towards AECMA Spec 1000D DTD
• Most (all?) projects plan for IETM-presentation
  to the end-user
• Every project has its own way of presenting the
  IETMs
• Split-Vision
• Infra-View
• Dynatext
• ...

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IETM in the Swedish defence industry Goals

• Technichal publications (information objects)
  shall
• be based on a datamodule (information objects)
  concept
• Configuration managed (CSDB)
• Approval process
• be produced and delivered digitally
• use international standards and specifications
• IETP shall
• be stored in a neutral format
• International Metafile standard?
• be distributed (to the end-user) on the web
• commercial web-browser
• basic rules for look-and-feeling and behavior
  (international operations)

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IETM in the Swedish defence industry But

• Dont forget the paper output!