00:01Until some time back, when computers and technology were not so developed,
00:06for every equipment OEMs used to deliver hard copies of manuals.
00:12A warship used to carry the hundreds of maintenance and operation manuals,
00:17which used to occupy 300 to 350 square feet of prime area with thousands of pages of technical literature.
00:26It was very difficult to refer to some operating process or troubleshooting from thousands of hard copies.
00:34Each time, maintainers have to refer to multiple books to get information related to issues.
00:42As technology progressed, scanned copies have replaced hard copies.
00:47Still that was difficult for cross-refering.
00:49PDF has solved the problems to some extent, but could not be handy when documents were in thousands.
00:59To address these issues, IETMs were introduced in this ships initially.
01:05IETM is the replacement of paperwork or hard copies.
01:11IETM 3 was proposed having HTML pages and interlengs.
01:16It was still challenging for bigger systems.
01:20IETM 4 was evolved to address many issues pertaining to number of pages
01:26and packaged with number of advanced features that made IETM level 4 dynamic.
01:34IETMs are now replaced by their electronic versions occupying very little space.
01:41These electronic technical manuals are termed as
01:44Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals or IETM
01:48or Interactive Electronic Technical Publications or IETP.
01:53These are usually XML or HTML5 based database.
02:00IETMs are a portable, electronic library which contain thousands of pages of documentation and images
02:07and allows end-users to trace technical documentation in a more efficient manner
02:14and the digital nature provides a more agile and accurate method of updating technical documentation.
02:23Code and Pixels have delivered more than 30 IETMs to Indian Army, Navy and Air Force.
02:31Contact Code and Pixels now for all your IETM related queries.
Comments