Safety in the Skies Begins on the Ground: Effective Creation and Management of A380 Service Literature
GUTERSLOH, Germany , October 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Flight operation for theAirbus A380 begins today: the largest and most modern aircraft in the worldwill begin flight service for Singapore Airlines with flight SQ380 to Sydney.
Due to strict aviation product liability, maintenance and safetyregulations, Airbus must supply extensive product literature in a wholevariety of technical manuals. Considering that the orders for this completelynew aircraft strongly vary according to customers' wishes, one can only tryto imagine the complexity involved in the production and management of thedocumentation.
After an extensive benchmarking process, Airbus decided to use theempolis:Content Lifecycle Suite for the effective creation and management ofparts of the service literature. The system is productive with 130 users inparallel.
Primarily the future-proof coverage of all requirements demanded ofstandardized, electronic documentation through a single system, convinced theresponsible department. Furthermore, the empolis:Content Lifecycle Suitefulfils the high expectations for structuring and comprehensibility and opensenormous rationalization potential for creation, quality assurance,translation and publication process control.
The publication system provides authoring services, content management,extensive link management, as well as variant and version management andfulfils all requirements for process control, data integrity, data qualityand the "ATA iSec 2200" specification. The Air Transport Association ofAmerica, Inc. (ATA) is the oldest and largest airline trade association inthe United States , representing the nation's leading airlines. The ATA helpsdevelop standards and regulations that shape the appearance andspecifications that enhance aviation safety, security and well-being. Withthe system from empolis, the comprehensive structure repair manual (SRM) andother documentation, such as NTM, CMM, DFPRM, ARM, AC and MFP, is produced.
"We are thrilled and proud that we were able to stand out and prevailover the best suppliers in the world", says Andreas Rempe , empolis VicePresident. "We guarantee quality, speed, and outstanding service on a veryhigh technological level for the core process entrusted to us."
About empolis:
empolis - The Information Logistics Company - offers enterprise contentand knowledge management solutions for company-wide information logistics andfor improving business processes. As a full service supplier, empolisdelivers everything from consulting, design and creation to implementation ofsolutions - from a single source.
empolis is an arvato AG subsidiary. arvato is the international media andcommunications service supplier within the Bertelsmann group and thereforebelongs to a unique network of over 270 companies in 37 countries. Among themare printing companies, data storage media manufacturers, logistics and ITservice organizations.
For more information: arvato AG Public Relations Tel: +49(0)5241-80-3408 Fax: +49(0)5241-80-3315SOURCE empolis GmbH
