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Article: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics tackles e-work instructions.(Case-In-Point)
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- September 1, 2003
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Online access to product-related data is the cornerstone of the product life-cycle management (PLM) concept. But on the factory floor, sharing product data can boil down to something as tangible as having the correct work instructions in front of you.
Alan Vyce knows this need firsthand. He is project manager of the Electronic Work Instruction Deployment Team at Fort Worth, Texas-based Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Vyce and his team are deploying a system for electronic work instructions from Waltham, Mass.-based HMS Software at Lockheed Martin's aircraft plants in Texas, Georgia, and California.
The challenge, Vyce says, is that the company's old ...