ATA e-Business Program Overview
ATA e-Business Forum – June 24, 2014 Ken Jones
ATA e-Business Program
International standards program for information exchange to support engineering, maintenance, materiel and flight operations. Open membership Neutral/consensus-based environment Administered by Airlines for America, formerly Air Transport Association (non profit) 110 Member companies 700+ Individual volunteers Collaborative web site: www.ataebiz.org for documents, balloting, calendars, email ATA Specifications - History
Beginning – late 1950s Spec 100 – Technical Data Standards Spec 200 – Materiel Data Standards (IBM Punch Cards) Standards Evolved and Expanded Changing business needs Technological advances Today Broad list of standards and data definitions Long list of adopters Standards deeply embedded in industry systems and processes 3
Vision
To be an agile, cost effective, global commercial aviation industry enabled through effective and efficient information sharing. Information is as dynamic as the business environment Business Models can be effective adjusted in a timely manner as conditions require Minimal data processing for distribution or consumption Information is complete and ready for consumption when provided Mission
To establish a global commercial aviation industry information framework that facilitates improved business agility, reduces costs, increases speed of business, and maintains the highest level of safety. Functional / Lifecycle Scope
Design Production Operation Maintenance
Configuration Management
ATA, AIA, ASD Maintenance Planning Collaboration (S1000D) Maintenance Procedures Part Identification, Traceability, RFID
Initial Provisioning Delivery Config Reliability Data
Industry Performance Metrics Spec 2000 Supply Chain Mgmt/e-Procurement/Repair Order Admin/Warranty iSpec 2200/S1000D Electronic Regulatory Documentation Spec 42 Aviation Marketplace Spec 2300 Electronic Aircraft Logbook In Development Flight Operations Data/MMEL Data
Electronic Aircraft Transfer Records
Digital Data Security 6 ATA e-Business Specifications
Spec 2000 – ATA Materiel, Reliability, Logbook, Regulatory Data, RFID standards iSpec 2200 / S1000D – Technical Information standards Illustrated Parts Catalog, Maintenance Manuals, Service Bulletin, MPD, Wiring Manuals, etc. Spec 2300 – Flight Operations Data Spec 42 – Digital Information Security Common Support Data Dictionary Definitions, characteristics, tags/identifiers for all data. World Airlines & Suppliers Guide
7 Organizational Structure
e-Business Steering Group Functional Interest Groups Integration Working Groups
Supply Chain Flight Regulatory Reliability Quality Traceability Civil Aviation Data Security Management Operations Documentation Data Assurance
Spec 2000 Spec 2300 Spec 2000 Spec 2000 Spec 2000 Data Harmonization iSpec 2200 Spec 42 Ch. 1-8, 12, Ch. 9, (15) Ch. 16 Ch. 11, 13-2 Technical Design S1000D Data Security 13, 14, (15). (17) Spec Consistency Collaboration WASG Methodology
CMM PT Configuration Mgmt PT Graphics & Multimedia PT XML PT Warranty PT Schema PT RFID on Electronic Aircraft E-Logbook PT Maintenance Rqmts PT Spec 2.0 CSDD PT Parts PT Transfer Records Metrics PT Service Bulletin PT Technical PT
8 ATA e-Business Strategy October 5, 2007
Vision: To be an agile, cost effective, global commercial aviation industry enabled through effective & efficient information sharing.
Mission: Establish a global commercial aviation industry information framework that facilitates improved business agility, reduces costs, increases speed of business, and maintains the highest level of safety.
Customer For Commercial Aviation Companies that Produce, Consume and Budgetary Perspective Exchange Data… Perspective
Who are the Produce What do member Be Self customers? What Standards Improve Maintain Safety airlines expect Supporting do they value from That... Reduce Costs Business and from ATA B1 ATA eBusiness? C1 C2 Processes C3Compliance eBusiness?
Operations Standards Lifecycle Management Standards Implementation Building the Community Perspective Maintain Open Increase Reduce Establish Operate to Ensure Quality & Consensus- What must we do Standards Barriers for Effective Lifecycle Plan Standards Based Work internally to meet Adoption Adoption Participation our customer P1 P2 P7 P8 P12 P13Environment objectives? P10 Provide Leverage Identify Encourage 3rd Provide Support for Increase Existing Business Party Product / Networking Standards Membership Standards Opportunities Solutions Dev. Opportunities P3 P4 P9 Implementation P14 P15
Provide Project Increase Speed Market the and Program of Standards Standards Oversight Development P5 P6 P11
Learning Perspective Maintain Awareness of Emerging Know the Standards and How Understand Business What must we Technologies They are Implemented know to perform L1 L2 L3 the processes? Current Members AAR Corp FedEx Proto Type Industries, Inc. ABX Air Finnair Qantas Airways AerData UK Limited Flatirons Solutions (formerly InfoTrust Group) Rockwell Collins Aeroinfo Systems Fokker Services BV Rolls-Royce Aerospace Software Development FUJITSU LIMITED SAAB Aeroxchange Ltd. Gables Engineering Satair A/S Air Canada GE Aviation Saudi Arabian Airlines Air New Zealand Limited GE Capital Aviation Services Ltd. SDL, Structured Content Technologies Division Airbus GE Transportation SITA Airbus Helicopters GGS SNECMA Alaska Airlines Hawaiian Airlines Sonovision Canada Inc. American Airlines HiCo-ICS GmbH Southwest Airlines Atlas Air Honeywell Spirit AeroSystems Incorporated ATR Horizon Air SR Technics Switzerland Aviall Services ILFC Swiss AviationSoftware Avio-Diepen.B.V. IMS Synesis7 B/E Aerospace, Inc. InSync Software, Inc. Technology Solutions BAE Systems Intergraph Government Solutions TechPubs, Inc. Boeing International Air Transport Association Tego, Inc. Bombardier Aerospace Inventory Locator Service Teledyne Controls British Airways JANA, Inc. TELINO Bruno Chatel (Chadocs) JetBlue Airways Thales Avionics Cambridge UK Auto-ID Lab Kavi Corporation The NORDAM Group Carillon Information Security KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Thomas Cook Airlines Ltd CHC Helicopter Corporation L-3 Communications TRAX USA Corp CHUOZUKEN CO., LTD LORD Corporation United Airlines CIT Aerospace Lufthansa Technik AG UPS Airlines Communications Software (Airline Systems) Ltd MAINtag US Airways Comply365 Solutions Meggitt UTC Aerospace Systems Continental DataGraphics Messier-Bugatti-Dowty Virgin Atlantic Airways CORENA Mxi Technologies Ltd warp it AG Dassault myTECHNIC MRO Technical Services A.S. Woodward, Inc. Delta Air Lines Nabtesco Aerospace DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH O'Neil & Associates EAM RFID Solutions Panasonic Avionics Corporation http://www.ataebiz.org/participants/ Eaton Aerospace Parametric Technology Corporation Embraer Parker Hannifin euroscript Systems Pratt & Whitney
Effective May 2014 10 The Specifications
11 Spec 2000
Began as Spec 200 related to materiel management. Migrated to Spec 2000 in the late 1980’s Material Management: Provisioning Data (ch. 1) Procurement Planning (ch. 2) Parts Order Management (ch. 2) Invoicing (ch. 4) Surplus Part data (ch. 12) Repair Management Repair Order Management, Invoicing, Teardown (ch. 7)
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Spec 2000
Automated Identification (ch. 9) Bar-coded shipping/receiving labels Permanent parts ID (bar-code, data matrix) RFID on parts Part Traceability Industry Metrics (ch. 13) Parts Delivery, Repair Process Warranty, Reliability Technical Resolution, Product Support Data
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Spec 2000
Reliability Data Collection (ch. 11) – Operational and Maintenance data feedback Aircraft Hours / Landings / Cycles Events / Delays / Cancelations Logbook Data LRU Removals (and installs) Shop Findings Scheduled Maintenance Data / Findings Service Bulletin / Mod Data Out of Service Data
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Spec 2000
Warranty Processing (ch. 14) Initial Delivered Parts List (ch. 15) Electronic Airworthiness Release Certificate (ch. 16) Electronic Logbook (ch. 17)
15 Spec 2300
Provides industry standard for management, configuration, and exchange of digital flight operations technical data Covers data pertaining to: Flight Crew Operating and Training Manuals Cabin Crew Operating and Training Manuals Weight and Balance Manual Master Minimum Equipment List Dispatch Deviation Guide Configuration Deviation List
16 Spec 2300
Based on a Data Module paradigm, not document based Provides a standard for Phases of Flight Includes Flight Operations Markup Language (FOML) – a set of XML Schemas for data exchange Original published draft was released in May 2009. Six subsequent revisions since then; most recent published in June 2014 Developed and maintained by the ATA Flight Operations Interest Group (FOIG)
17 iSpec 2200
Industry standard for the development, management and exchange of digital technical manuals Most widely adopted standard for technical data in the Civil Aviation industry Based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Home of the ATA Standard Numbering System (aka ATA Chapters; ATA Numbers)
18 iSpec 2200
Provides SGML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) for 18 manuals including: Aircraft and Engine Illustrated Parts Catalogs (AIPC and EIPC) Aircraft and Component Maintenance Manuals (AMM and CMM) Fault Reporting/Fault Isolation Manual (FRM/FIM) Service Bulletin (SB) Structural Repair Manual (SRM) Wiring Manual (WM)
19 iSpec 2200
Current evolution of the industry standard that began in 1956 with ATA Spec 100. Original issue of iSpec 2200 released in 2000. Thirteen subsequent revisions since then. Revision 2014.1 scheduled to be released this year. Developed and maintained by the ATA Civil Aviation Working Group (CAWG)
20 Spec 42
Provides industry standard for: Authenticating the senders and receivers of digital data Verification if data has been altered Traceability of data to their source (non-repudiation) Based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Includes Certificate Policies – describe the comprehensive procedures and controls for management of digital certificates and signatures: Identity proofing and vetting PKI Key management Credential assurance level recommendations 21 S1000D
Collaborative effort between ATA e-Business, AIA, ASD, bringing together defense and commercial requirements. Next generation “Technical Documents” using XML Supersedes iSpec2200 for some new aircraft models Data centric rather than document centric Civil Aviation’s requirements are represented by the ATA e-Business Program through the CAWG ATA e-Business Publishes a “Business Rules” specification helping define implementation details
22 Spec 42
Original issue was released in March 2008. Four subsequent revisions since then. Revision 2014.1 scheduled to be released later this year Developed and maintained by the ATA Digital Security Working Group (DSWG)
23 Typical ATA e-Biz Standard?
Describes content for business information exchange Part Numbers, dates, procedures, conditions, etc. Describes the “business rules” for a function Information that must always be provided information that must be provided if certain conditions exist Information that may be provided Uses CSDD to define fields to minimize misuse Describes the structure/ formats XML, flat file, CSV, etc. Messages (PO), Large Files (Provisioning, IPC, AMM, etc), ID data (bar-code, RFID, etc.) 24 Current or Recent Projects
25 Active / Recent Projects
Electronic Aircraft Transfer Records Designed to provide standardized formats for electronic exchange of aircraft records at return Group has identified the top 5 candidates for electronic exchange: • AD Status • SB / Mod Status • Repair / Damage • Tracked Components (HT, LLP, etc.) • MIP, Last done, Next Due Meant to replace scanning and tagging exercise done today Group also will indicate other existing standards to be preferred format for electronic records exchange (e.g. e-Logbook ch. 17 format)
Active /Recent Projects
Reliability Data Exchange (Spec 2000 ch. 11 & 13) Recently added a short term Out Of Service record Recently added a Quantity Per Aircraft Record Updating aircraft reliability metrics RFID on Parts Standardized methods of storing key data on permanent RFID tags S1000D / CAWG Updating Business Rules for Civil Aircraft Working on version 4.2
Active Projects
Electronic Logbook Focused on a common XML method for moving Logbook data to Maintenance Systems (and vice versa) Working with Flight Ops group to standardize operational MEL data for use by applications Regulatory Data Update to Spec 2000 Chapter 16 – Electronic Airworthiness Release Certificates (8130-3, EASA Form 1, etc.) Warranty Project Recently added an XML implementation of the Warranty Claim
Active Projects
Spec 2000 Procurement Update the widely used specification to better support new business processes Flight Operations Data Exchange (Spec 2300) Finalizing 2014 release of Flight Crew Training Manual, Cabin Crew Operating Manual, Weight & Balance Manual Digital Security (Spec 42) Recent updates include traceability of data to its source (non-repudiation), data archiving considerations
Tagged Data
30 Spec 2000 - Tagged/Formatted Data
Spec 2000 Receiving Label (data matrix) Spec 2000 Legacy EDI order ABC Distributor, 123 Main St., Miiam, FL, USA 31005 CAM S1BOOKED/QF2/81205/USD/1/BNO 3/ 341/EOIJ1234567/HLT8100-13-1/1/EA/25.20/15077
XML helps us to separate the structure from the content. Separate the formatting from the content Make the data application neutral Allow additional format validation using parsers, based on Schemas Allows hierarchy / relationships to be better depicted Easier to support from corporate databases
32 The paper 8130-3 A representative Use Case (courtesy Airbus, P&W)
33 Authorized Release Certificate
34 North Haven Facility closed This number would include the date in 2003 contained in Block #18
Description not consistent with other Did not start using page indicators for single 8130-3 tags page 8130-3 tags until 5-17-2004. for this part number
Mr. Hatch retired on 3- 31-99
ARCs issued when Mr. Hatch was an Obsolete ODAR number Date format inconsistent ODAR stated last name and then first not used since 7-31-98 with P&W name 35 The electronic 8130-3 using Spec 2000 Chapter 16 XML
36 XML – doesn’t look friendly
XML – a closer look
Same XML – with Stylesheet
39 Summary
40 History History
Airlines mostly maintained their own aircraft and components A few disparate mainframe systems Internal development staff The most common method of information exchange was paper Unfortunately, paper is still all too common as a method of data storage and data exchange today. Today Today
More maintenance partner companies Fewer disparate systems (but still many) Newer ERP and/or Best of Breed Solutions and new IT competition every day Fewer internal development staff More information, often available electronically More mobile access
So what does it mean?
Rapid changing environments at the operator – the need to manage change New systems / old systems – the need to integrate More partners – the need to share More information – the need to distill Same old cost pressure - the need for reduced cost THE NEED TO STANDARDIZE
45 Join the ATA e-Business Program
Program membership - $3500/company/year Unlimited number of employees may join and participate Unlimited access to all ATA e-Business specifications ATA Spec 2000: E-Business Specification for Materiels Management ATA iSpec 2200: Information Standards for Aviation Maintenance ATA Spec 2300: Data Exchange Standard for Flight Operations ATA Spec 42: Aviation Industry Standards for Digital Information Security ATA Common Support Data Dictionary (CSDD) ATA World Airlines and Suppliers Guide (WASG) Business Rules for Implementation of S1000D in the Civil Aviation Industry
46 Questions
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