摘要: |
The primary goal is to develop and demonstrate an extensible Web-based information system for aircraft maintenance to improve commercial aircraft safety. Primary objectives are to allow: (1) the FAA to automate the submission, storage and retrieval of the aircraft maintenance data from the Mechanical Interruption Summary (MIS), and the Service Difficulty Report (SDR) that FAA requires, and (2) fast data sharing with other FAA information systems. The benefits of such a system to FAA and the aviation industry include the reduction in labor required for aircraft operators to submit electronic data, reduction in labor required for the FAA to collect, maintain, and disseminate comprehensive data, for safety analysis and trend detection via the Web, and fast data sharing between the FAA and industry using the platform-neutral XML data format and web services. We also bulilt a proof of concept XML-based, Multimodal Publishing System (MUMPS) based on software such as Tomcat/Cocoon, IBM Voice Toolkit, MySQL and Xindice. The multiple modality publishing capability permits universal access (any time, any place, any communication means, and for the physically challenged) from multiple wired or wireless devices. This proof of concept demonstrated how an information system can be made extensible for future technological advancement. |