BOEING IS expanding its on-line services to aircraft operators and maintenance providers with the launch of its Boeing On-Line Data (BOLD) service, making digital maintenance-data available worldwide
The new system includes recent service bulletins, the complete service-bulletin index, specifications and processes for parts and materials, and the Boeing Component Maintenance Manuals, in addition to the aircraft technical drawings and parts lists which were made available on-line in 1995.
"In the future, our customers will get all the data required to operate their Boeing aircraft through a single network connection," says Craig Savio, director of technical data processes. "This will be much more efficient and accurate than searching through thousands of pages of manuals, or hundreds of thousands of aperture cards."
Cards, containing microfilm viewed through an enlarger, have been the conventional means of storing aircraft drawings and parts lists. A set of cards for a single aircraft type can total over 100,000, and these can easily be misfiled, says Boeing.
Source: Flight International
