Solutions by Industry

Solutions for Aerospace and Defense

Content and documentation for the aviation and defense industries.

Challenges:

Aerospace and defense organizations generate huge volumes of technical documentation to market, operate, and service aircraft and other complex products.

Creating and managing this content is made all the more complex because documentation is developed by many authors around the globe with different authoring systems, spread across numerous regional markets and requiring specific language, cultural and regulatory treatment.

For many global aerospace and defense organizations, this complexity has significantly inhibited rapid product and market roll-out and the achievement of scale economies in multilingual delivery.

The most complete suite of products available for the intense
documentation requirements of the US military

Bruce Brooke, Northrop Grumman Technical Services

Solutions:

SDL can help you streamline your documentation process to make it more flexible, responsive and cost effective. We can rework your existing content to protect your information investment while giving you access to the benefits of the latest tools and techniques. Our expertise includes the creation of information in accordance with all common industry standards, such as ATA iSpec 2200 and AECMA 1000D.

SDL solutions commonly used in the aviation industry include:

SDL Contenta: SDL Contenta is an award-winning software solution that manages the life cycle of creating, maintaining, and delivering content through multiple channels.

SDL XPP: XPP is an automated XML publishing engine that delivers solutions for the publishing, technical documentation, financial, government, high tech, aerospace and defense industries.

SDL Trisoft CCM: The SDL Trisoft CCM system is the world's leading Component Content Management solution designed for technical publications organizations in global companies.

Find out more about SDL solutions for the aerospace and defense industries

Gulfstream

SDL delivered a SGML/XML-based document management and delivery upgrade that supports Gulfstream’s suite of technical publications.

Benefits:

100% improvement in time taken to create new material

Two thirds of documentation now shared between product lines, dramatically reducing labor costs

Solutions used:

SDL Contenta and SDL XPP

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Northrop Grumman

When Northrop Grumman Technical Services won a contract to update technical manuals for the Air Force's venerable E3 AWACS the documentation made up some 300,000 pages of legacy content.

Benefits:

Cost per page cut in half

Quality and timeliness of deliverable documents has improved by 25%

Solutions used:

SDL Contenta and SDL XPP

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Boeing

The NAVSEA Integrated Publishing Process uses SDL solutions to help manage technical information across a range of aircraft including the C-17 and AWACS.

Benefits

Looseleaf capability of SDL XPP ensures technical documentation changes are captured accurately and completely.

Solutions used:

SDL Contenta and SDL XPP

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