Project Background and Objectives

The 846th Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base is tasked with testing and maintaining engineering flight design data for over 200 personnel.

The engineering flight data group required a solution to convert over 35,000 aperture cards covering over 30 years of historical data and several hundred engineering paper drawings to a digital media that could be retrieved quickly to any desktop in the squadron. This covered day to day support to over 200 personnel and over 15 miles between the working organizations. At the same time we needed to convert our current day-to-day archival process. Our engineering information needed to be able to be retrieved from 30 years ago to yesterday and have the ability to be indexed, researched and sorted in various configurations. We needed to be able to print to desktop printers and to large wide scale plotters and again to be done from each desktop

Contract Work, Scope, and Deliverables

IDEAL was able to provide both hardware and software solutions in a Total Solution that solved all of our archiving and data acquisition problems.

IDEAL Software Solution:

ScanDEX Software for scanning, indexing and archiving IntraNETIX PlanRoom for browser-based retrieval and quick viewing

The IDEAL Total Solution includes a method to transfer both film and paper mediums to a digital format and an easily retrievable/reproducible data product. The digital information is linked to indexed data, which provides engineering information at the touch of key to the requester's desk-top, thus supporting Project Managers, Design Engineers and Manufacturing Personnel. Manufacturing now has the ability to have the latest information from new design drawings to engineering change orders ensuring efficient and effective utilization of both manufacturing man-hours and material.

Experience Summary

• Project Management
• Systems Analysis
• Software Customization
• Programming
• Scanning
• Technical Support
• Training