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Arconics TechPubs Introducing Arconics TechPubs In tough times all aircraft operators need to cut costs. Technical publications is one area where costs are rising. New manufacturer data formats, changing regulations, and imminent systems obsolescence are increasing the complexity of operational and engineering manuals. Expertise in the new data formats and publication technologies is scarce and expensive, but there is a better approach. Arconics TechPubs Service is a complete Virtual Technical Publication Department for all operational and engineering manuals. It's the most cost-effective way to revise and publish accurate and compliant manuals. Arconics TechPubs reduces the requirement for internal technical publications expertise, and eliminates the need for new capital expenditure in publishing systems. It guarantees low and predictable operational costs for the future. Arconics TechPubs Service combines Arconics' technical publications expertise and delivery capability with the company's market leading web-based software to deliver a complete technical publications service to aircraft operators worldwide. The airline keeps precise control of its manuals. Flight operations mangers, department heads, fleet captains or technical pilots can review, contribute or approve changes on the Arconics web platform. Arconics' technical publications experts manage all of the manufacturer updates, notify the airline of relevant regulatory changes, and ensure that the data is complete, consistent and accurate across all manuals. Every step in revision, editing, publication and distribution to every crew member is tracked electronically. The result is accurate and timely manuals, increased safety and demonstrable compliance at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches. The Arconics TechPubs Service Publications The Arconics TechPubs Service allows airlines to revise and publish all their manuals according to their own publication schedules. The service includes document conversion, change management, and incorporating new revisions, temporary revisions and service bulletins from aircraft manufacturer like Boeing and Airbus. We support all operations, maintenance and engineering/technical manuals. We track effectivity by MSN, and can deliver tail-specific manuals. Distribution Arconics TechPubs provides complete audited digital distribution of manuals across the airline which ensures that all staff and crew have complete, current and accurate information. All digital distribution is controlled from a central web platforms that can report on acknowledgement from individuals or groups. Crew receive access to a personalized library, which can be viewed online, on paper or on EFBs. Flight operations manuals can be published directly to FOCT (Airbus) and FTID (Boeing) formats. Compliance Arconics TechPubs maintains regulatory compliance with ICAO, FAA, EASA and a host of regional and national regulators bodies. The service maps individual regulations to the relevant sections of the manuals, and automatically produces compliance tables, so the Airline can easily demonstrate compliance. Crew acknowledgements of updates and compulsory reads are tracked and monitored so management can easily report on overall compliance levels, saving hundreds of hours of management time every audit cycle. Optionally, local Aviation Authorities can be granted online access to the published updates to streamline and speed the approval process between airlines and Aviation Authorities. How It Works Arconics software has been trusted for over 7 years by some of the world's largest airlines. It is delivered as both installed software and as a managed service. Arconics TechPubs brings together Arconics' proven web-based technologies and the company's technical publications experts to deliver completely integrated editing, approval, publication and distribution at less cost than in-house publications departments. Each manual has an owner and set of authorised editors in the airline, and the airline is assigned a dedicated Arconics Publications Manager who provides a single point of contact for all production issues. The Arconics Publications Manager is backed up by highly skilled content teams, aligned by fleet, and every aspect of production is monitored by an independent Quality Team. Arconics' comprehensive web-based software that enables customers review manuals, track and approve changes add comments, and view published manuals at any point in the cycle. We also provide a secure portal that tracks the distribution of manuals and compulsory notices to all crew, with full distribution tracking and drill-down reporting. We know that every airline is different. Different fleets, aircraft configurations, geographical locations, service partner arrangements and regulatory jurisdictions bring their own unique requirements. Arconics works closely with each customer to define the appropriate service parameters and service level agreements. Our performance is tracked and backed up by service level guarantees. Arconics has a large and highly skilled large pool of resources. We can get new customers up and running quickly, and handle any necessary data conversion from any format into XML. In production, we can flexibly assign resources to meet turnaround SLAs even for high volumes of changes during critical points of the revision cycle. Key Benefits Cost
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Compliance and Safety
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Find out More To find out more about Arconics TechPubs, give us a call on +353 1 611 4625 or send us an email to info@arconics.com. |
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