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    • Aerospace Technical Information Management Systems in JAXA

    Paper number

    IAC-05-D1.3.07

    Author

    Dr. Shinichi Sobue, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/ISAS, Japan

    Year

    2005

    Abstract
    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) uses information technology as an
important tool, for increasing efficiency in business process, strengthening mission 
assurance and advancing IT from aerospace arena. To support mission assurance, JAXA 
has been developing technical information management systems with digitizing 
technical information from paper documents since 2000 to accelerate technical 
knowledge sharing and there are anomaly database, project information management 
system (PIMS) and digital archive system (DARC) in operation as technical information 
systems.

Anomaly database has been developed to archive and provide anomaly information for 
high reliability assurance by mission assurance department. There are 45000 anomaly 
data of rocket, satellite and ground systems in this system. Wideband InterNetworking
engineering test and Demonstration Satellite (WINDS) project information management
system has been developed to share and manage project information using commercial
Product Data Management (PDM) software by WINDS project team. This WINDS PIMS provides
technical document management, information management of meetings, management of Action 
Items, management of Status (WBS/SOW), etc. Digital Archive system has been developed
to archive and provide technical information of JAXA's activities as a permanent
database for knowledge sharing by information systems department. There are 530,000 
metadata (catalog data) of technical documents.

Those technical information systems are very valuable for knowledge sharing among ongoing
aerospace projects in JAXA. However, since those systems are developed individually and 
there are no interoperable functions nor single portal site to access them, users have
to walk around to find any information of needed. In addition, same technical information
is archived more than two systems.  It is also necessary to exchange technical information
among systems and to develop interface mechanism among them since there are no standard
interface of metadata and data. Therefore, it is necessary to establish interoperable 
environment to share technical information and database more efficiently and user friendly. 

This paper describes the overview of JAXA's technical information systems and the plan 
of development of interoperable environment.
    Abstract document

    IAC-05-D1.3.07.pdf

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