This paper describes an integrated system for developing an intelligent, electronic standards book with Internet capability. The developed electronic standards book contains computer-aided design (CAD) drawings with hyperlinks to descriptive text, material management data, and procedures for safety, operating, and installation. A unique aspect is the set of hyperlinks to an expert system shell that aids field workers as the company moves to a process-oriented environment. The developed electronic standards book resides on the corporate server and appears as a well-linked web site. The book also resides on CD-ROM for field crews and has the same web site appearance as the corporate version. The CD-ROM version receives update information from the server. The full Internet capability and a seamless switch between those two web sites, based on a comprehensive logic, is provided by our developed Standards Book Viewer which integrates the standard web browser MSIE 4.0. The integrated system is developed within a mixed language programming environment of Microsoft Visual++, Java, and HTML. The digitalization of the standards books is performed using an interactive approach.
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