When maintaining military systems, technical procedures must be up-to-date and absolutely correct; lives depend on it. Your technical data is just as important to your livelihood, and we understand how to help you manage it. But there is one additional step in maintenance management that can’t be forgotten: getting information to your field staff when they need it.
For more than 20 years, Antech has been working on interactive electronic technical manuals (IETMs). We’ve introduced innovations that are now widely used in the industry, written international standards, and conducted research to push the state-of-the-art. We firmly believe that digital information is only better than paper if you use an interactive interface to retrieve it, and that technical information brings a unique set of problems and solutions to the forefront. Let us be your interactive technical manual specialist!
How to Get an IETM (and Why You’d Want One)
Some say “Eye-Eee-Tee-Em,” and some say what disturbingly sounds like “I Eat Um.” Whichever way you pronounce it, IETM stands for Interactive Electronic Technical Manual, and it spells relief from your technical information overload. Technical data includes many types of content, for example theory of operation, remove & replace procedures, schematic diagrams, parts lists, and troubleshooting. We’ve developed specialized ways to handle each of these information types that help users get the job done.
If you need this capability, we offer a few options. We can build a turnkey system that hosts and delivers your technical information, we can integrate a tech manual solution into your enterprise, or we can provide consulting services like we’ve been doing for the Navy’s Seahawk helicopter program for 10 years and counting. The Navy relies on our expertise to help them define, contract, evaluate, and build IETM software and technology, and so can you.
Smart Tech Data Systems
Modern technical publications usually don’t stand alone. They are often part of an automated logistics environment that may include connections to hardware systems, integrated diagnostics, intelligent graphics, and embedded training. The architecture of these systems has evolved over many years, but it’s not always obvious how your goals fit in.
Antech’s experience integrating technical data systems with smart technology spans R&D, consulting services, and development innovations. We have developed expert systems and augmented reality prototypes, consulted with major defense contractors on how their troubleshooting procedures will pick up where onboard diagnostics systems leave off, created just-in-time training, QuickStart tutorials, and performance support packages that introduce and refresh maintenance concepts, and developed new ways for interactive schematic diagrams to support the decision process.
We know how to deliver compact and effective data packages for reasonable costs that let users like you find the information you need to get the job done and get home safely.
