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Founded in 1936, the ATA is Americas oldest and largest airline trade
association. Members
distributors,
include airlines,
suppliers,
aerospace
repair agencies
and
manufacturers,
software
providers.
commercial
developing
content
aviation
structure,
engineering, maintenance,
information. These
experience
industry
and
creating
material management
standards
exceptional
in
electronic
levels
enable
of
standards
exchange
and
of
for
aircraft
flight operations
airlines
and
suppliers
efficiencies
and
cost
to
savings.
the paper format. Over the years they have evolved to meet the changing
needs of the industry and to embrace the latest technological advances.
In 1999, the ATA released the latest version of the ATA Spec 100, providing
an industry-wide standard for aircraft system numbering. The numbering
system, or ATA chapter numbers, provide format and content guidelines for
conventional printed documentation and facilitate greater ease of learning
and understanding for pilots, engineers and other users.
Today, radical changes are occurring in the technology used to produce and
use electronic technical documentation. In particular, the move to digital
Location
Content
Chapter 1
Introduction
Section 1-1
Background
Section 1-2
Conceptual Foundation
tions must become progressively more flexible. ATA iSpec 2200 has laid the
Section 1-3
Functional Areas
Requirements
Section 2-1
Business Requirements
Section 2-2
Functional Requirements
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
publications is being driven by the need to cut costs and increase efficiencies
Information Standards
Section 3-1
Generic Resources
Section 3-2
Maint. Requirements
Section 3-3
Maintenance Procedures
the traditional paper delivery. The benefits of moving towards creating and
Section 3-4
Configuration Control
Section 3-5
Training
Section 3-6
Flight Operations
Chapter 4
Section 4-1
Section 4-2
Chapter 5
Media Protocols
Section 5-1
Media Labeling
Section 5-3
Presentation
Section 5-4
Retrieval
Chapter 6
Section 6-1
Annex I
References
Class III Documents are structured more freely following the logical flow of
content. They no longer follow a book structure and are printed, but wont
necessarily match the presentation on the screen. Hyperlinking throughout
the document is necessary, and the document is authored in a markup
language (SGML).
Class IV
Dynamic document with ability to be
user specific
Class V
Document integrated with an Expert
System
the database schema. Redundancy in the data and concept of static pages is
eliminated. Content changes dynamically and can be user specific. Linear
(XML) to transform
Paper
Microsoft Word
Adobe PDF
S1000D
DITA
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processing
software
tool
like
Word.
Using
Word
choosing
that
provide for
enables
non technical
increased
access
and
higher
cost
documents will
savings. Conversion
tools that focus on ATA iSpec 2200 will provide the highest quality data
resulting in a smoother conversion process and higher long-term savings.
Once ATA iSpec 2200 legacy documents have been converted to ATA XML,
A true management system, the softwares
extensive features provide a framework for
controlling the development of technical data
utilizing ATA publishing concepts. Easy-touse, the robust software integrates authoring
through publishing.
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subdocuments can
ATA bursting
chunks are
page
blocks
arately in the ATA repository, within the document. Each chunk can
then be authored separately. Authors can check out the
page blocks
and
documents.
use
them
in
different
manuals
or
that
repository
ATA data is
users
can
stored
and
modularized
and
edit
electronic
create
in
central
manuals
with
It is accessible
and
revise
ATA
manuals
with
documents
in a Word template allowing for faster uptake and better user productivity.
practices
and
to
recommend
unified
method
of
Enhanced inter-operability
Improved clarity
In
2005, a
MOU
promote
technical
publication
was
common
the
agreement
signed
aerospace
defense
and ATA to
interoperable,
global
maintenance of S1000D.
to
incorporate
commercial
aviation
S1000D
standard, and
military and
to establish
commercial
aviation
the
the
documentation
for
an
aircraft
line
it to a serviceable state.
S1000D provides a
same
concept
but
uses
different
terminology.
Data Modules (DMs) are tagged with relevant S1000D SGML Document
Type Definitions (DTDs) or XML Schemas. These electronic tags and their
Pageblock.
buyers, suppliers and manufacturers may still be using the ATA standard.
By
utilizing
facilitate
ATA
information
as
single,
sharing
widely
between
accepted
these
standard
parties
may
to
far
Because ATA
Imbedded in the
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pre-configured
for
extensive
The software
out-of-the
box
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