Basic S1000D Comparison with Traditional Documentation Methods

Traditional Document Creation

S1000D Document Creation

Departments working on similar data in isolation, data and effort are duplicated

Departments share information in a Common Source Database. Documents are written

as modular units (Data Modules) that facilitate document re-use.

Engineering Data

Engineering Data

Flight Operations
Department

Maintenance Doc
Department

Illust. Parts List

Department

Flight Operations
Department

Maintenance Doc
Department

Illust. Parts List

Department

Create

Create
Document Creation

Document Creation

Analysis of equipment, breaking it down to create modular units

Document Creation

CSDB

Common Source Database

File Storage

File Storage

DM1

DM2

DM3

DM4

DM5

DM6

DM7

DM8

Data
Modules

File Storage

Publish

Publish
Flight Operations
Manual

Maintenance Manual

Illust. Parts List Manual

Flight Ops Manual

Continental DataGraphics Ltd. 2007

Illust. Parts List Manual

DM1

DM3

DM1

DM2

DM1

DM3

DM4

DM6

DM3

DM4

DM4

DM8

DM7
Manuals may contain duplicated information which could introduce errors. Document
maintenance increases when equipment evolves as changes need to be made to
each manual.

Maintenance Manual

DM5

Common elements (shown here as DMs 1, 3 and 4) are repeated across three
different manuals, but they are only created once. Future changes in one Data
Module become replicated across all future manual revisions.

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