Technical Document Interface – An overview

Aircraft Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) such as Boeing and Airbus provide guidelines for the maintenance and upkeep of aircraft. These guidelines are made available to the fleet operators and aircraft maintenance companies in electronic digitized form. The guidelines cover comprehensive documents like Aircraft Maintenance Manuals (AMMs), Illustrated Parts Catalogues (IPCs) and intermediate directives like Service Bulletins (SBs) and Airworthiness Directives (ADs). Usually aircraft maintenance personnel are provided access to the maintenance documents through the OEM’s Technical Document Systems. For example, Airbus provides its maintenance documents through Airnav / ADOC Navigator while Boeing provides its maintenance documents through PMA and MyBoeingFleet.com. Similarly, independent third party document management systems such as “Jouve” and “Enigma”, which host the OEM documents, can also be used.

The Technical Document Interface (TDI) works as a bridge between the Ramco Aviation Solution and the external technical document management system. The Interface provides the maintenance personnel with a single point access to view aircraft-specific maintenance documents and also to download SB (in SGML format) to create maintenance change requests automatically within the Ramco Aviation Solution.

The TDI allows you to perform the following:

Create Maintenance Change Request

The OEMs communicate the change notifications to fleet operators in the form of SBs and ADs. These SBs and ADs are available in SGML format. The TDI allows you to upload the SGML document to automatically create a Maintenance Change Request (MCR).

View maintenance documents

Maintenance documents will be available through predefined Technical Document Systems. The TDI allows you to access the technical document systems for viewing the maintenance document details. In addition, links may be provided in the Ramco Aviation Solution screens to directly access the relevant chapters of the Technical Document Systems.

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