The graphical information required to support a complex aircraft involves tens of thousands of graphics and hundreds of thousands of pieces of amplifying information from manufacturers, suppliers, and integrators. Such massive amounts of graphical and textual information requires a sophisticated capability to automatically convert, interpret, and integrate electronic data into information industry standard formats to facilitate the conduct of troubleshooting, repairing, and training activities. Troubleshooting charts, diagrams, component index tables, parts illustrations, standards tables, structural and tooling drawings, and schematics constitute such information. Schematic information is difficult and time consuming to utilize in contemporary forms. Schematic information or graphical knowledge needs to be automatically acquired to enable locating, recognizing and cataloging schematic symbols, components, text, and connectivity. Once acquired this graphical knowledge will enable the development of algorithms for viewing, searching, and tracing connections among graphic objects between schematics. A software tool set and associated databases of components and interconnections among components will be enabled and rapidly deployed through established customer bases in several industries using CAD, CAM, data synchronization, fully backend supported internet based applications for facilities management, process industry maintenance, and vehicle depot and field maintenance. van Houtens business partner will support commercialization of this technology.
Benefit: The product concept is to provide customers with a fully integrated schematic management process supported by LAN, WAN, and internet ASP software allowing for the creation, warehousing, and synchronization of smart schematics deployable to the point of application for training, maintenance and decisions making. This will fulfill the customers needs to improve the productivity and quality of all work tasks supported by the schematic management process. This product concept has been validated for the aviation, automotive, chemical process, utilities (telephone, electrical power, and water supply), and cable television industries.
Keywords: Toolset, Toolset, knowledgebase, schematic-on-demand, Tracing, Connectivity, Training, authoring, troubleshooting
