JustSystems Solutions for Aerospace and Defense

Cost, complexity and time are the key challenges to efficient airline and defense-related flight operations. Making a flight operation work means balancing the seemingly conflicting requirements of speed and efficiency with safety and consistency. How do we ensure consistent and reliable maintenance, repair and operations, while addressing the need for fast turnaround times and profitable flights? For airlines in particular, the reality is that equipment and fuel costs are relatively fixed and the effectiveness of maintenance, repair and operations is the difference between profit and loss. A key aspect of this is ensuring the right information is delivered to the right people at the right time—sorting through highly complex information and presenting documentation that reflects only the most current version of methods, procedures and other MRO-related information. JustSystems provides powerful solutions that allow manufacturers to dramatically improve how information is created, published and consumed.

JustSystems solutions for aerospace and defense include:

Structured Authoring and Publishing

• Accelerate creation and improve quality and consistency of business-critical documents
• Reduce the cost and complexity of multi-channel publishing, localization and maintenance over time

JustSystems solutions allow both technical authors and business contributors to easily create valid XML to accelerate the creation, simplify the maintenance and improve the quality of content found in business critical documents including technical publications, advisories, parts catalogs and any other key documents or content-based communications vehicles. Structured authoring provides the basis for conversion, reuse, localization and multi-channel publishing of business critical content.

Examples include:

• Technical publications
• Advisories
• Standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Marketing and customer-facing documents

Information Sharing and Collaboration

• Dramatically improve the accuracy and consistency of complex technical manuals
• Improve dynamic information sharing across functions, workgroups and teams

JustSystems solutions allow you to bring together disparate, distributed data and content and combine it in a single dynamic document that is always up to date. These dynamic documents ensure that the information they contain is always accurate, which is particularly critical in areas where there is an exceptionally high cost of introducing inaccurate information into a process. Stale or inaccurate information can lead to costly errors in maintenance, repair and operations. This can lead to safety and regulatory issues and flight schedule delays. Airlines and defense-related flight operations use these dynamic documents for publishing dynamic technical manuals including structured data and unstructured content from multiple sources of record. When these sources change, the information in the document refreshes, ensuring that it is never out of date.

Examples include:

• Interactive electronic technical manuals (IETM)
• Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) documents
• Maintenance “dashboards” (dynamic scheduled/unscheduled maintenance orders)
• Dynamic task card solutions
• Electronic flight bag

Document Process Transformation

• Eliminate error introduction from manual rekeying and scanning of documents
• Improve the speed and efficiency of manual and document-centric processes

In many business processes, there are manual gaps between isolated “silos of automation.” These manual gaps are typically the document-centric phases of a process. JustSystems solutions help to streamline business processes by bridging the gap between automated transactional workflows and more human-centric document-based workflows. JustSystems allows organizations to automatically capture transactional information and pull it into dynamic documents for human review and analysis. Likewise, information within documents can be automatically processed by back-office systems or packaged and delivered as an XML stream without manual rekeying or scanning of information.

Examples include:

• Maintenance advisories and other regulated notifications
• Aircraft health and maintenance fault-driven document rendering
• Automated document creation/fulfillment