Application of new information technology to DOD legacy paper technical manuals

Author

Su, Li Pi ; Bosco, Charles D. ; England, Wesley

Author_Institution

US Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

22-25 Sep 1997

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The Department of Defense is in the process of digitizing paper technical manuals (TMs). This consists, mainly, of direct copy to disk, with only a few being upgraded to Electronic Technical Manual (ETM) or Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM). However, there is no clear-cut methodology for cost-effectively converting paper manual to various levels of upgrade. The Advanced Technology Office, the US Army Test, Measurement, and Diagnostics Equipment Activity the US Army Missile Command, has investigated the conversion technologies/tools and developed conversion procedures that can achieve these goals: the most cost effective, value-added, and user-friendly ETM/IETM. The authors provide some guidelines to assist the ETMs/IETMs developers to achieve these goals

Keywords

information technology; maintenance engineering; military computing; user manuals; Electronic Technical Manual; Interactive Electronic Technical Manual; US DOD paper technical manuals; US Department of Defense; conversion procedures; information technology application; Costs; Displays; Guidelines; Information technology; Manuals; Missiles; Performance evaluation; Personnel; System testing; US Department of Defense;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON, 97. 1997 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4162-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1997.633542

Filename

633542