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Australian Aerospace has selected ADG’s R4i CSDB Server suite for the production of ASD S1000D hardcopy manuals for the ADF’s new Multi Role Helicopter, the MRH90.

The selection of R4i for the MRH90 program leverages the existing R4i system which is used by Australian Aerospace to produce Interactive Electronic Technical Manual’s (IETM’s) for the Army’s ARH Tiger.  The MRH90 can carry 18 fully-equipped troops or 4,000kg of under slung load, plus four crew. Cruise speed is 300km/h and maximum range is over 900km.

It has state-of-the-art technology, a composite fuselage, a rear ramp enabling a small vehicle to be loaded, a full fly-by-wire control system and a digital cockpit.  The helicopter is fully marinised and thus able to operate from Royal Australian Navy amphibious ships.

“ADG are pleased to welcome the Australian Aerospace MRH90 project as a new customer in the region, and look forward to supporting the Australian Aerospace program’s in the delivery of PDF and IETP’s to our Defence Forces.  These are first class programs and we are proud of our association with Australian Aerospace”, said Absolute Data Group’s CEO, Tammy Halter.

 ADG would like to welcome on board:

•      Calian in North America and Canada
•      Tedopres International in Europe
•      Tedopres Inc. in North America.

Our new Partners are assisting ADG in servicing these regions with ADG’s S1000D solution capability.

Full contact details for each of the partners can be found on our Partners Page http://www.absolutedata.com/partners/

Purchase 5 R4i WorkBench Authoring licenses before 30th June and receive another 5 FREE! 

Author S1000D and XML content from your web browser without needing to know XML tagging with R4i Workbench. Engineers and casual authors can now easily create technical manuals and operator guides. Using the optional R4i CSDB Server, Workbench content can be deployed as Interactive Technical Manuals or hardcopy publications.
For more information on this limited offer please contact sales@absolutedata.com

The team at ADG wish to thank the delegates and speakers for attending DEFDOC 2010, held in Melbourne last week. We hope you found the topics of interest and were able to network with your industry peers.

DefDoc 2010 Registrations are in and the fun officially begins when we kick things off  today Tuesday 18th May, in Melbourne. 

Below are some relevant details to all those participating at DefDoc 2010.

Tutorial: ‘Authoring Content to ASD S1000D Schema’s’

Date: Tuesday 18th May

Address: ONG Training, Level 11 / 461 Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD.

Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm

Please Note: Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Tea is provided to all students.

 DefDoc 2010 – 2 Day Conference:

Date: Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th May

Address: ‘The Victoria Hotel’, 215 Little Collins Street, Melbourne CBD

Time: Registrations commence from 8:00am in the ‘Swanston Function Room’

Opening Address: 9:00am

Please Note: Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Tea is provided to all delegates.

Should you have any queries or concerns relating to DefDoc 2010, please contact ADG directly  on + 61 7 3832 6888 or alternatively e-mail defdoc@absolutedata.com

The countdown is on for DefDoc 2010 to begin, which is due to commence in Melbourne next week!

We have only 5 tickets available for the Conference, so if you haven’t registered to be a part of DefDoc 2010 and you would like to join us, simply fill out a DefDoc Registration Form that can be found at: http://www.defdoc.com/register.html and once completed, either fax directly to + 617 3832 6999 or alternatively, email to defdoc@absolutedata.com

We have an exciting line-up of both local and International guest speakers this year.

Please note, Darrell Nelson is no longer available to present at Defdoc, although we have been fortunate enough to make contact with Keith Alexander from Defence Materiel Organisation, Industry Division of the Director Export Control Systems.

The topic of Keith’s presentation will be: ‘ITAR Considerations for the delivery of Training Courseware, Illustrations and Interactive Electronic Technical Data’.

We are all excited to have Keith on board with us at DefDoc and we look forward to hearing his presentation.

Latest presentation details are available at: http://www.defdoc/Program08.pdf

Kevin Spink spent 23 years with British Army Aviation, serving operationally throughout the world.  Kevin has worked with Boeing Defence Australia since 2004 carrying out various specialist roles in the area of Technical Publications, including AEW&C Ground Support Senior Technical Writer and the AEW&C Systems and Quality Co-ordinator.  Kevin has recently assumed the position of Boeing Defence Australia’s Technical Data Manager.

About Kevin’s Presentation:

One of the claims of S1000D is that it can be easily applied to legacy data.  Recently a small team from Boeing Defence Australia have been involved in a Scoping Study to determine the feasibility of converting ATA iSpec 2200 manuals to S1000D. 

This insightful presentation describes the real time approach taken by this team to convert over 8,000 individual maintenance tasks contained in 26,000 pages of an ATA iSpec 2200 Aircraft Maintenance Manual to S1000D.

The presentation will highlight both the similarities and the differences between the S1000D and ATA iSpec structured data including the break out of chunks of ATA data into Data Modules, the re-usability of those Data Modules, the creation of the DMRL, the assignment of DMCs and the mapping of the ATA Data to the S1000D Procedural Schemas.

For the full Speaking Program for DefDoc 2010 please refer to: http://www.defdoc.com/presentations.html

Join your Defence and Industry peers at DefDoc 2010 (May 19-20, Melbourne). This specialist event provides a forum to share information on initiatives, future intentions and common issues regarding the creation, management and delivery of training, ASD STE-100, PLCM and technical documentation to Australia’s Defence Forces and Industry.

Latest News – UK Technical specialist to present

Dr. Timothy M. King, CEng MIMechE CITP MBCS PhD DIC ACGI, has extensive international experiences in through-life information exploitation to support high value, complex assets.

Since 1986, Tim has participated extensively in applying computer software to support the engineering process. He is a Principal Consultant at LSC Group (UK), where he has worked since 1998. He is a Chartered Engineer (Institution of Mechanical Engineers) and a Chartered Information Technology Professional (British Computer Society).

About Tim’s Presentation

Effective and efficient decision making is the fundamental business capability that drives the requirement for information interoperability and integration.

This interoperability and integration is more extensive if underpinned by open, neutral standards. Such standards include STEP and PLCS for engineering data (ISO 10303) and ASD S1000D for technical documentation.

These standards have been the subject of extensive investment and support from the UK Defence enterprise, within both the MOD and Industry.

The Defence enterprise is now ready to take full advantage of the standards and has built an understanding of how to address the associated practical issues through early examples of implementation.

These examples have already begun to demonstrate the achievability of the promised business benefits. These benefits will grow as implementation becomes more widespread.

For the full Speaking Program for DefDoc 2010 please refer to http://www.defdoc.com/presentations.html

DefDoc 2010 provides a three day forum to share information on current initiatives, future intentions and common issues regarding the creation, management and delivery of documentation, training and through life support in Defence and Industry.

The program for DefDoc 2010 will include a training class on Authoring Content to the ASD S1000D Schema’s, as well as case studies on documentation, technical illustrations, SCORM, STE-100 and other through life support topics.

The DefDoc Team invites Defence and Industry personnel to present at DefDoc 2010 and attend the conference as our guest. Presentations on system implementation and information management challenges through to new technologies and integration are welcome.

To register your interest please email samhocking@absolutedata.com

Early-bird registrations finish COB 23rd April 2010, so don’t miss out on the great delegate price of AU $704. For more information visit http://www.defdoc.com

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