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Designed for the Aerospace and Military sectors, the R4i Common Source Database Server (CSDB) enables organisations to create, manage and publish maintenance and operational content as an Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) or hardcopy (PDF) via R4i Binder with Change Packaging.

Supplementing paper manuals, the R4i Viewer provides maintainers and operators with a dynamic, interactive multimedia experience. The Free R4i Viewer supports dynamic presentation of SGML, XML and PDF as well as audio, video and written content.

ADG’s R4i solutions is for customers that require their technical or field information to be able to:

• Comply with industry specifications, including delivering to ASD S1000D, IETM, IETP, 5629A, and/or MILSPEC (Military Specification)
• Re-use of information across multiple platforms or projects
• Move beyond using out of date paper documents in the field
• Deliver content to multiple devices or formats, including paper, web, CD, in vehicle

R4i CSDB Server, via the desktop software; controls the versioning, publishing and management of technical illustrations and maintenance data. The R4i CSDB includes powerful tools that work together to deliver interactive electronic procedures (IETP) and Adobe PDF Manuals.

The five key tools included with the R4i CSDB Server:

R4i Data Module Manager

The corner stone of any ASD S1000D solution is the ability to apply business rules and manage the Data Module Requirements List (DMRL), the Data Module List (DML) and the Common Source Database List (CSL). The Data Module Manager is an integrated tool to create base Data Modules, and manage the DML, DMRL and CSL reports.

R4i Cross-Reference Manager

Integration between the Authoring environment into the R4i CSDB.

Insertion of Graphic or Referenced Datamodules allows the Editor to be able to view, access and auto-reference objects with all the required document mark-up from within the R4i CSDB.  The links are then maintained by the Common Source Database.

R4i Fault Code Manager

The R4i Fault Code Manager is used for the ability to record fault information about the equipment or system. All the information that is contained within the Fault Code Manager can be accessed within an IETP when using R4iViewer.

R4i Common Specification Manager

 R4i Common Specification Manager is used for the ability to record information about the equipment or system.  All information that is contained within the Common Specification manager can be referenced within Data Modules and any tolerances that are included can be used within the R4i Fault Code Manager.

R4i Viewer

ADG’s R4i Viewer has been approved for use on the Australian Defence Restricted Network and the U.S. Air Force Network.

• The R4i Viewer is royalty free to distribute with R4i CSDB content
• Advanced search, including parts searching
• Includes a free CGM viewer capability
• Bookmark, Cookie-trail and other easy navigation capabilities
• Full support for multi-directional hotspotting with CGM graphics
• Supports dynamic presentation of SGML and XML data
• Maintainers in the field can provide feedback via the “Tech Note” facility