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Jotne EPM Technology to supply software to Saab

Published 2008-07-05
As a result of the framework agreement between Gripen International and the Ministry of Defence, Jotne EPM Technology (EPMT) has entered into an agreement with Saab for the management and communication of maintenance data for Gripen. The project will make use of EPMT's EXPRESS Data Manager' software.

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Saab will be gaining efficient information flow and decision support between the departments handling development, production, purchasing and customer support. In addition, by using EXPRESS Data Manager™, Saab will be fulfilling the Norwegian Armed Forces’ 2004 requirement that all new procurement projects should supply operating and management information in accordance with the open standard ISO 10303-239:Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS). Saab and the Norwegian Armed Forces are working with other authorities and industrial partners to develop the PLCS standard.

– The use of product data standards is a prerequisite for effective communication in our own organisation and externally with customers, partners and suppliers, as well as giving us the flexibility to use the best applications and systems, says Carl-Johan Wilén, Technical Fellow at Saab and a key player in the international work of standardisation. – The project will exploit the functionality in EPMT’s software to manage our important maintenance data independently of proprietary suppliers. We can thus fulfil our vision of being able to offer our customers all the information necessary to take the right decision at the right time. Jorulv Rangnes, managing director of Jotne EPM Technology, comments: – For us Saab is an ideal customer. They produce complex products with a long useful life and they have shown great faith in us by adopting our solutions for seamless communication (interoperability) based on open standards.

The project started in August and will run over 18 months. It involves up to 10 persons at EPMT. The project will use existing software from EPMT and establish a communications solution between two important programme systems for the production, management and distribution of maintenance data for Saab’s Gripen aircraft. These are advanced maintenance procedures which also involve handover of the aircraft to the customer and the customer’s own maintenance programme. The project will be valuable to Saab because it will enable a more efficient handover to the customer. The project is valuable to EPMT because we have developed and industrialised our own advanced solutions for system integration. This opens up many interesting marketing opportunities.

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People behind the project

JOCHEN HAENISCH

Jochen Haenisch Jochen Haenisch leads the Defense and Aeronautics Business Area in Jotne EPM Technology. With his engineering background as naval architect he has contributed to and managed many implementations of the EXPRESS Data Manager™ (EDM). These applied various STEP standards including ISO 10303-203 (configuration control), ISO 10303-214 (automotive), ISO 10303-239 (product lifecycle support, PLCS) and ISO 15926 (oil&gas). The experience gained he fed back into industry specific EPMT products.

Jochen also leads EPMT’s activities in International Standardization. In 1990 he entered into the ISO Subcommittee for Industrial Data, ISO TC184/SC4, for many known as STEP. He regularly attended their plenary meetings as head of delegation for Norway. For several of the STEP standards he was the project leader. Currently he is deputy convenor of WG12, Common Resources.


CARL-JOHAN WILÉN

Carl-Johan Wilén Saab Aerotech
Carl-Johan Wilén is a Technical fellow - Informatics and Customer Support Standards at Saab Technologies. He has more than 35 years experience in information management and technical publications production in different industry sectors, such as Nuclear power, Heavy vehicles and Military aircrafts.

Carl is a member of ASD Customer and Product Support Committee and the Swedish Security and Defence Industry Association ILS Group. Carl is one of the founders and forces behind S1000D since the very beginning back in the last century and he has been the European chair of the S1000D maintenance group, TPSMG. Carl was just nominated to be the first chair of the new S1000D Council.

Carl has also been involved in the development of PLCS since its start in 1998, and in the coming ASD standards S3000L and S4000M.

 
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