S1000d

This is a revolutionary standard coming slowly in the technical publications.

As far As what I have learnt till date about this standard is that it targets to save space and reduce complexity in understanding the aviation documents.

Let me break it down for you all. We have same procedures say for eg replacement of certain component in AMM and CMM. This is nothing but just duplication of data which is used in different places for the same purpose.

To avoid this S1000d is brought into picture which is a one stop shop for all maintenance documents. Only one task is created and it is used everywhere I.e. in line, workshop,etc. Space saved and accessing the data simplified... How wonderful right!!

I would love to hear from you all if you have any suggestions...

Till then God bless all.

ATA Standards

I will talk about standards we use in technical publications.
Basically two standards are used for technical documents
1. ATA 100
2. ATA iSpec2200

ATA 100 is a paper format. This format doesn't have task or subtasks.
You might not be knowing that ATA 100 is revised many times. Technical documents are updated based on different revision on ATA 100 based on customer requirements. Revision numbers for eg revision 22, 37, etc. Revision 37 being almost like ATA iSpec2200.

ATA iSpec2200 on the other hand is an electronic format. I like this more as it saves a lot of paper. There are hyperlinks all over the document, well referenced & coloured.
Its well organised and very user friendly.

We have one more standard called S1000D. It is a future standard consisting of data modules.
Keep following me here. I will definitely write on S1000D in details as separate blog.

Types of Aircraft manuals/Technical documents

There are a lot of technical documents published for maintenance Ande of aircraft in several ways. I would list down the most used here:
1. Component maintenance manual (CMM)
2. Aircraft maintenance manual (AMM)
3. Illustrated parts catalogues (IPC)
4. Aircraft illustrated parts catalogue (AIPC)
5. Power plant build-up manual (PPBM)
6. Power plant build-up illustrated parts catalogue (PPICC)
7. Structural repair manual (SRM)
8. Wiring diagram manual (WDM)
9. Engine shop manual (ESM)
10. Temporary revision (TR)
11. Abbreviated component maintenance manual (ACMM). etc..

There are many other which I will list in my future blogs.

What is techincal publication in aviation??

This is a very general question to anyone who is new or is trying to understand the subject
. I had this question when i was about to get into my current job which deals with the same.

Let me take you through this in a simplest way possible. When you buy a mobile phone, you get a small handbook with it. Most of us barely look at it. This handbook is a very simple yet apt example to understand TECHNICAL PUBLICATION. This is a smaller platform. In case of aircraft the handbook just gets huge. This handbook is created and revised over period.

So, for aircraft components as well we have such documents which help the maintenance engineer to inspect or repair the aircraft components can be called as technical publications.

I hope this helps everyone out there to understand what is Technical Publication for an aircraft ??

Technical Publications

TechPubs, I mean Technical Publications. 

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Work about maintenance of Aircraft Components

This sounds boring but I bet it's equally interesting to actual maintenance...