关键词: 产品生命周期管理, 交互式电子技术手册, 系统集成, 映射, 计算机辅助设计

Abstract: An overview of Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) was presented. Currently, the IETM authoring process has not been put into concurrent Research and Development (R&D) processes of the equipment. As enabling technology and software platform for Concurrent Engineering (CE), the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) could be regarded as the data source and the management platform of IETM. After discussing the shortcomings of the traditional generation process of IETM in the equipment R&D processes, a PLM-based concurrent generation approach of IETM was put forward. The IETM relevant activities in the equipment overall lifecycle processes were analyzed, a theme-based 3-layer interactive IETM Content Data Model (CDM) and an interactive IETM-supporting equipment information model were presented. The general framework of PLM-based IETM generation system was put forward, the data modules and various mapping relationships among data modules and the various data in PLM system were defined, and the key technologies of this approach were discussed. Finally, the IETM authoring and display system were developed, and an instance was also provided.

Key words: product lifecycle management, interactive electronic technical manual, system integration, mapping, computer aided design