Airbus Service Bulletins in S1000D

Presenter Name: Dr. Andreas Schütze

Rank or Title: Head of Data Expertise
Organization: Airbus S.A.S. September 21-23, 2015
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What are Airbus Service Bulletins?

A Service Bulletin (SB) is an Airworthiness approved document

created by the aircraft manufacturer to implement a change to the type
design of, or an inspection to a delivered aircraft - either to maintain
its level of safety, or to improve its operation

INSTRUCTION + MATERIAL MAINTENANCE

SB Content

Kits / Tools

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What are Airbus Service Bulletins?

SB Objectives:
→ provide sufficient information on the modification/inspection to help
the airline taking the decision of carrying out or not the SB
→ detail the sequence of all the tasks and material required to
accomplish the whole modification or inspection on the aircraft

Return On
Investment
Fleet
view
Fuel
saving

Tools/Kit prices & Skills Instructions

availability Zones / Access

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Current Process

Customers

SB Authoring
(rich semantic AirN@v / Engineering
tagging) Airbus
DTD

Conversion ATA DTD

• Deliver civil aviation
standard compliant data
• Major limitations of ATA
SB DTD

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ATA Service Bulletin DTD

• SB DTD was one of the first

ATA DTDs
• High level structure agreed
• Some semantic tagging inside PARA
• Major limitations
• No semantic tables structures (only CALS
table model)
 Material Information only in CALS tables
• Descriptive text in Accomplishment
Instructions (no procedure/task model)
• No metadata for Planning Information
• Very limited EFFECT model (no
PRE/POST, no AND/OR, no other cond)
•…
 Richness of Airbus authoring DTD lost
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The S1000D Service Bulletin Data Module Structure

Not used by Airbus

• Keep maximum of
information in SB DM
• Required structure is
available in SB DM
schema

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The S1000D Service Bulletin Data Module Structure

Task Set used by Airbus

• A Task Set encompasses
a set of SB procedures
that, once accomplished,
allow the aircraft to be
released
• Accomplishment
Instructions structure in
SB Schema insufficient to
support Task Set

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The S1000D Service Bulletin Data Module

Task used by Airbus

Accomplishment Instructions
structure in SB schema
insufficient
• No preliminary
requirements (incl. list of
Tools, consumables,
parts, material set,
accesses, references)
• SB Task model equivalent
to maintenance procedure
 IT tools commonality

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 • ACT: List of A/C attribute
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Airbus Implementation of SBs in S1000D – Details

• CCT: List of conditions
• Use of descript DM
• PCT: List of A/C and conditions
S1000D Service
• Referenced fromBulletin (Applicability ofCondition
the SB)
Legal notice
any SB DM of the - (Descript Applicability Cross-
reference
data package data module) Cross-
Table (CCT)
SB Core (Service Bulletin reference
Table (ACT)
data module) Product
Management
Management information Cross-
information containing SB metadata to reference
Table (PCT)
Revision be used for searches (i.e.
information
SB compliance,
Tasktime
set Invariant
Task set solution
As many Task Set
Container data
Summary assessment, SB impact on
module
Task set Invariant
(Proced data solutions as SB
Planning weight & balance…).
(Container data
module
Task set solution
(Proced data
embodiment
information module)
Task set solution
module methods
Material (Proced data
information module)
Accomplishment • Use of container DM
instructions
Additional • Avoids changing Task Invariant
(Container data
information references module
Task Invariant
(Container data
module)

Task solution
Graphic
• Unique graphics Graphic
proced data
Task solution
module

• Referenced from Graphic

proced data
Task solution
module
As many Task
SB core DM or
(Proced data
module)
solutions as A/C
ask DMs configurations

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SB Delivery Package Structure for an SB Revision

SB REVISION XML delivery

One envelope
delivery package
• Root Folder
ENVELOPE SB
(sb revision 00)
• DATA

• PDF

• SCHEMA
CONF 001
(sb revision 00) • As
As many
manydelivery• USERGUIDE
delivery
packages
packageasasA/CA/C
configurations • DDN file
configuration(fully
(fully
filtered)
filtered)
CONF 002 • CSL file
(sb revision 00)

... PDF delivery

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Single XML Source and Generic Style Sheet

Enhanced Applicability Display
S1000D XML
PDF HTML

Both
BothPDF
PDFand
andHTML
HTML
view
viewsbased on on
based
S1000D
S1000D XMLdata
XML data
S1000D
S1000Dapplicability
applicability
model allows
model allows
multiple applicability
management of
format management
multiple applicability
formats

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Structured Material Information

Structured material set (i.e. kits)

Structured list of material sets

necessary for each aircraft
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Structured Material Information

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Structured Material Information

Structured individual
materials (tool,
consumable part)

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Structured Material Information

Import into airline information

system easily possible

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Ready-to-use Accomplishment Instructions

Procedure DM 1 Procedure DM 2
Procedure DM 3
SB TASK SET 1

SB procedure (=task) broken down

into single Data Modules ready to be
used in Engineering Orders or Job
SB task set enables breakdown
Cards (including associated
of accomplishment instructions
illustrations)

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Ready-to-use Accomplishment Instructions

Procedure DM 1 Procedure DM 2
Procedure DM 3
SB TASK SET 1

Commonality of SB procedure structure

with maintenance procedures

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Roadmap towards S1000D Service Bulletins

Single SB standard
for all Airbus Aircraft
programmes
SBs authored
with ATA tool
set migrated
to S1000D

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Conclusion

XML instead of SGML

Compliant with S1000D 4.2

implementation for A350 XWB
maintenance documentation

Fully configurable SB

Rich semantic tagging kept

S1000D compliant SB XML data
allows implementing enhanced data
processing functionality

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