Interactive Electronic Technical Manual Research Articles

Repurposing a Digital Twin-Based Decision Support System as a Training Tool by Incorporating Learning Science Principles

The U.S. Navy has a sophisticated manpower planning process for recruiting, selecting, training, and placing thousands of enlisted Sailors into hundreds of specific jobs every year. Given the large number of “moving parts” in this manpower planning process, some inefficiencies are unavoidable. For example, there may be a non-trivial time gap between when some Sailors complete their job-specific training course and when they arrive at their duty station. During this time, their knowledge and skills will invariably decay due to lack of use. Electronic job aids, such as Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) and Decision Support Systems (DSS), are important to mission success because they help to reduce the need for Sailors to memorize rarely used factual details. However, IETMs and DSSs are job aids, not training tools. In this paper, we describe how we repurposed an existing digital twin-based DSS to create a ubiquitous, online training tool. We did so by leveraging the learning science principles of human performance measurement, adaptive learning with scaffolding, performance feedback, and training data analytics. We conclude with a series of best practices and lessons learned that other practitioners could follow when attempting to repurpose electronic job aids that were not originally designed for training.

Research on ship informational support management system

Ship is a kind of complex system. It faces a larger number of integrated logistics support works and its operational readiness and mission reliability are affected by support system. In order to improve the support efficiency, this paper studies a ship informational support management system based on interactive electronic technical manual and equipment support management technologies. It introduces the system composition, function and interface of the ship informational support management system.

MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY CENTRED IETM SYSTEM FOR SHIPPING APPLICATIONS, 147-162.

This paper presents a novel mobile augmented reality (MAR) centered interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) system basedon improved corner extraction algorithm and feature point matchingalgorithm, which is applied to ship equipment management andtechnical support activities on smartphone platform.

Towards designing knowledge bases for aircraft malfunctions diagnostics based on model transformations

The paper describes a method of forming prototypes of knowledge bases for the interactive electronic technical manual for RRJ-95 troubleshooting. The method includes three main stages: the formation of an ontology for diagnosing an aircraft malfunctions; the formation of event trees that describe the sequence of operations to eliminate specific malfunctions; the construction of knowledge bases that codify the basic concepts of the ontology and trees formed. At each stage, the following software are used: Protégé, Extended Event Tree Editor (EETE), and Personal Knowledge Base Designer (PKBD). Data-driven integration of software is implemented through model transformations. The description of the main stages of the method; the table of correspondences used in the implementation of model transformations, as well as an illustrative example are presented.

Interactive electronic technical manuals as a means to improve efficiency of operation of complex technical systems

The article describes the use of interactive electronic technical manuals (IETM). One of the tools for implementing the requirements of the S1000D standard is the editor of interactive electronic technical manuals Seamatica. The editorial staff of Seamatica Enterprise implements the full range of IETM development activities. The pace of introduction and quality of interactive manuals in industrial engineering are clearly unsatisfactory. The article discusses the main reasons for a limited application of interactive manuals in industrial engineering, such as the lack of education in IETM-related topics for specialists in forestry machines operation.

Research on Interactive Fault Reasoning of Complex Agricultural Equipment by IETM

As the equipment of modern agriculture becomes more and more complex, fault reasoning and fault maintenance support have turned into two important core functions. And how to improve the fault reasoning task success rate is an unavoidable problem for Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) that has been used in modern agriculture support information. Aiming to solve the poor interactive, inaccurate location, one-sided guidance problems in fault reasoning and fault maintenance of complex agricultural equipment, we use process data module and fault data module to describe the fault and full process for fault diagnose, fault reasoning and fault maintenance, and then according to interactive fault reasoning principle based on process data module and fault data module to guide fault maintenance staff complete fault reasoning, isolation and maintenance in shorter time. As a result, this is a new approach to improve the accuracy and efficiency of fault remedy and maintenance, and it also improves the efficiency of fault reasoning of complex agricultural equipment by IETM in an interactive way.

Prospects for the Introduction of the Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals Technology in the Practice of Operation of Manned Spacecraft Simulators

The paper considers an existing information technology to support operation of products namely the technology of interactive electronic technical manuals (IETM) and substantiates the expediency of introducing this technology in the practice of operation of the manned spacecraft simulators.

METHOD OF MULTIPARAMETRIC QUALITY ESTIMATION BASED ON SOFT COMPUTING

The method of multi-level quality assessment of interactive electronic technical manuals for aeronautical engineering contains the main approaches and instrumental base for the implementation of a multi-parametric assessment of the quality of electronic content of these manuals. The purpose of assessing the quality of interactive electronic technical manuals for aviation equipment is to obtain a consolidated conclusion on the degree of satisfaction of the need to create interactive electronic technical manuals in the conditions of unclear initial data used for the assessment received from experts. The article shows that the quality assessment of interactive electronic technical manuals for the operation and repair of aviation equipment can be made on the basis of nonnumeric or soft measurements due to the fuzzy nature of the initial qualimetric data. Assessment of the compositional importance of simpler quality indicators of interactive electronic technical manuals consisting of more complex using significance ranks determined by soft computing methods makes it possible to take into account any fragmentary and fuzzy expert data on the comparative weight of individual indicators included in the summary ones.

Обґрунтування порядку розробки та впровадження інтерактивних електронних технічних керівництв зразків зенітного ракетного озброєння

The article analyses the process of management of the technical documents of anti-aircraft missile weapons and establishes its main phases. An approach to the formation of the structure of interactive electronic technical manuals of anti-aircraft missile weapons is determined. The order of development and introduction of interactive electronic technical manuals of anti-aircraft missile weapons, which are not subject to supervision of the owner of intellectual property, is offered.

Proactive management of the design and development processes of interactive electronic maintenance and repair documentation for aircraft

The article deals with the quality management of interactive electronic technical manuals on the operation and repair of aircraft. It has been established that the quality management tools for interactive electronic maintenance and repair documentation for aircraft do not fully satisfy the existing set of specific requirements for the technological process of their design and development, as well as the implementation of proactive quality management procedures in it. This suggests a lack of scientific, methodological and technological security of quality systems in the design and development of interactive electronic maintenance and repair documentation for aircraft. The quality management of interactive electronic technical manuals for the operation and repair of aviation equipment is a sequential process of iterative procedures for evaluating and improving the quality of the specified information and software tools for logistics support.

Risk management of interactive electronic technical manual design projects

The analysis, assessment and minimization of risks for projects on the development of interactive electronic technical manual of different thematic focus is one of the classic examples of application of the results of modern scientific risk management in the subject area of creating software and information products. The need for these analyses and assessments is due to the fact that the creation of modern, high-technology interactive electronic technical manual integrated both in the operation of complex equipment and in the training of exploiters is a resource-intensive and expensive process. This provision fully applies to the interactive electronic technical manual for the operation and repair of aviation equipment.

METHOD OF LOGICAL SCHEMES OF SUBJECT CONTENT FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE OF DEVELOPED INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC TECHNICAL MANUALS

The determining value of the logicality of the presentation, relevance and visibility of the presentation of the subject content to ensure the quality of the developed interactive electronic technical manuals for the operation and repair of aviation equipment objectively requires the development of a methodological tool for monitoring and managing its consumer properties. As such, the method of logical schemes of subject content for technical systems, which are built on the basis of synthesis of recognition features, can serve. These schemes are a network description of the multilevel decomposition of complex samples of aviation technical systems in a rational sequence of their inspection, verification and development. The proposed method of ensuring the quality of the IET develops a qualitatively new level of development of the subject material for the operation and repair of aviation equipment for interactive electronic manuals by supplementing the scientific and methodological apparatus of such development with tools for its generalization and structuring as logical diagrams of the sequence of inspections (work).The method of logical schemes of subject content to ensure the quality of interactive electronic technical guides being developed includes: a method for synthesizing logical diagrams of the subject content of operation and repair of aviation equipment, the basic sequence of the stages of developing electronic content on the basis of logical diagrams of subject content; practical recommendations on the software implementation of electronic content in interactive electronic technical guides.

SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC TECHNICAL MANUALS FOR OPERATION AND REPAIR OF AVIATION TECHNOLOGY

Quality management of interactive electronic technical manuals on the operation and repair of aviation equipment is considered as a sequential process of iterative procedures for evaluating and improving the quality of these information and software logistics support tools. The scientific novelty of the research is that the scientific and methodological concept of quality management of interactive electronic technical manuals for the operation and repair of aviation equipment through the application of a process approach to the life cycle of this type of technology makes it possible to develop a methodological apparatus for developing and improving interactive electronic means of supporting the maintenance of aviation equipment by systematization and rationalization of methods of increasing its effectiveness. The scientific and methodological concept of quality management of interactive electronic technical manuals on the operation and repair of aviation equipment is the logical basis for the development of a number of methodologies and practical recommendations for ensuring the quality of interactive electronic technical manuals of the appropriate class, rationalizing the technological process for their development and application, etc. The construct of the proposed scientific and methodological concept is a two-level representation of the quality of the interactive electronic technical manuals. Considering the connection between the capabilities of the software and technology platform for creating interactive electronic technical guides and content-representation capabilities for logistic support of operators, it seems rational to consider the quality of these software and information products at two levels of presentation: subject-logical and information-technology.

Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals Data Validation Algorithm

The interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) is an important component of equipment integrated support informatization. The army requires that the interactive electronic technical manuals delivered by the equipment manufacturer need to comply with the relevant standards and specifications. On the basis of analyzing the standards and standards of interactive electronic technical manual, this paper puts forward a data validation algorithm based on Schema for interactive electronic manual. The method includes the verification of the XML document structure of the interactive electronic manual data module, the content of the data module and the corresponding data model, and the verification of the rules.

Data Validation for Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals

The interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) is an important component of equipment integrated support informatization. The army requires that the interactive electronic technical manuals delivered by the equipment manufacturer need to comply with the relevant standards and specifications. On the basis of analyzing the standards and standards of interactive electronic technical manual, this paper puts forward IETM data model which is used XML schema. Based on the IETM data model, data validation principles are got in paper. Then this paper gives the implementation of IETM data validation software tool, and describes the application of software. The application proves that the software can support the compilation of manual data module, data exchange and verification of specifications in the process of manual delivery.

IETM centered intelligent maintenance system integrating fuzzy semantic inference and data fusion

This paper presents a novel interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) centered intelligent maintenance system, which integrates diagnosis strategies of experience-based manual interpretation, rule-based fuzzy semantic inference and condition-based data fusion. Firstly, initial judgment is tried by onsite maintainer; otherwise rule-based fuzzy semantic inference is proposed on the designed IETM platform for rapid diagnosis using portable maintenance aid (PMA). For condition monitoring subsystems, signals can be collected and download to ground station via PMA for enhanced diagnosis using advanced classifiers and data fusion techniques. The combined diagnostic strategies are employed to trigger maintenance guidance and relevant works such as spare parts management etc. The proposed scheme was evaluated by two experiments of fault diagnosis for electric multiple units (EMU) trains. Experiment results show that intelligent, convenient, accurate and flexible diagnosis advantages can be obtained, which are benefit to maintenance reality.

About the use of Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals for the Machine Builder

The support of complete product life cycle (PLC) of mechanical facilities is very important. The consumer is a full participant in the PLC stages of the operation, so the producer is obliged to ensure his exploitative documents. The problems of ensuring PLC support of the operation stage - the complexity of perception, development and support of exploitative documents in a paper form is represented. The experience of domestic enterprises to develop interactive electronic technical manuals (IETM) is given. The tool for creating and managing IETM and the way of solving problems that arise in the creation and use of interactive electronic documents is proposed.

Development of methods of modeling and computer aided design of gas turbine engines

Methods of computer-aided design and modeling of GTE are discussed. The results of development of auniversal, open technology for simulation of sophisticated technical objects are described. The proposed technologyallows solving simulation tasks for modeling the performance of aircraft engines as a part of an aircraft.Other technical objects successfully simulated using this technology, include power plants of various types. Theexperience of automated selection of construction layout of gas turbine engines is shown. Co-modeling of gasturbine engine and its automated control system is described. The research was conducted using domestic PLMand CAD/CAE systems, such as SPRAD, Stalker, and a number of other applications for technological design ofparts and components of gas turbine engines. The effectiveness of combining the functionality of the multi-levelsimulation with the means of CAD/CAE/PLM systems is shown. Shown use DVIG at seminatural simulationTVVD (D-27) and its ACS. A method for obtaining the characteristics of compressors, using the developed simulationsystems blade rows, steps, compressors and dvigateley.V including new approaches to the design ofturbomachinery (tracking method jets - ISO). Shows the results of the development of LSI components for theorganization Operation Support GTD to-date. In particular, it is described developed IETM (Interactive ElectronicTechnical Manual) Operating GTR (gas turbine drive) AL-31ST used in Gazprom at compressor stations.

Research and Application of SVG in the Feeder Data Analysis System Based on Ajax

It researched key technology based on ajax of svg in feeder data analysis system, for the requirement of complicated circuit quick analysis and high efficiency in aviation arming ensure domain, combined with S1000D specification for interactive electronic technical manuals and data requirements of creative thinking, proposed feeder S1000D data modules and svg technology dynamic publishing model,and the application of research results, case study results show that: The design can be automatically and quickly analyze circuit through the auxiliary equipment, leads the list of inter-path, achieve troubleshooting.

Design of Wearable Equipment Auxiliary Repair Terminal Based on IETM

Portable terminal equipment maintenance was an important application field of interactive electronic technical manual, based on the analysis of its technical characteristic, a portable maintenance auxiliary equipment which was used for complex equipment maintenance had been designed. The equipment used the latest LAN technology to realize remote communication function, at the same time it integrated the multimeter module, network camera and IETM module, and it achieved the function of signal detection, information query, etc, which met the demand of the equipment maintenance support.