5 Things to Read to Enhance Your S1000D Knowledge
You’re so deeply focused on the work that you need to do well in order to get into the Top Performers Club, you want that one day you take a breather and realise that you don’t know very much else at all much less devoid of any S1000D Knowledge.
Say you wanted to study Engineering, and you’re taking Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry at AS-level. You’ve memorised more formulae than you can shake a bunsen burner at. You know enough laws named after 17th century scientists to fill an alphabet. You’ve never met a graph you didn’t like. But once your exams are done and the summer holidays roll around, you realise that you haven’t read anything that isn’t a textbook in months and you’re hazy on who the Prime Minister is.
Nor is this a problem restricted to engineers working in the Technical Publications. All subject areas can be similarly prone to this painful intensity of focus. It’s not a bad way to be when you’re deep in project delivery schedules. But what happens when you emerge the other side, and decide you want to be a well-rounded human being capable of holding a conversation on topics in the wider range of Technical Publications? We’ve compiled this list of recommended things to read – that will bring you up to speed on S1000D you might care to think of.
- Transitioning your manuals from ATA100 to S1000D
In light of the full uptake of the use of S1000D, since approximately 2008, some older aircraft programs now need to be converted from ATA to S1000D. This is largely for business reasons, for example, if an aircraft model is highly successful but was originally documented using ATA100. The reason for the switch becoming necessary is due to the fact that ATA manuals are typically created on paper or pdf; even though the documentation can be done electronically, there is the additional issue that ATA100 uses SGML. . .Read More
- What does S1000D IETM mean?
Before the current levels of development in technology that we see nowadays, all documentation of machines and equipment was delivered as a hard-copy manual. Of course, equipment can be extremely complex, made up of many different parts; this means that technical publications in form of physical manuals could be thousands of pages long.Read More
- Classes of IETM: a detailed breakdown
Technical manuals have a long history and have been published in many formats over the years, starting from physical paper copies produced in printing presses. However, when it comes to talking about manuals for large machines such as aircrafts, it must be noted that they required thousands of pages of literature that occupied a lot of space due to the vast number of highly complex parts that they are comprised of.Read More
- Industry 4.0 Technologies – Digital Twin
Nowadays, we see many emerging trends in IETP (Interactive Electronic Technical Publication). One of the recent innovations is the concept of a ‘digital twin’. A digital twin is a virtual representation of something, or an accurate digital counterpart of a physical object or process; the concept originated in 2002, coined by Michael Grieves at the University of Michigan. Read More