Rotorcraft configuration management is a process, which documents performance, functionality and physical attributes of a military helicopter. This process applies technical and administrative surveillance against a certified design baseline and controls change incorporation throughout the life cycle of the aircraft. The United States Department of Defense (DOD) provides guidance on configuration management through military handbook MIL-HDBK-61A and EIA Standard 649. The data governed by configuration management processes can be viewed as a colossal mixture of design drawings, technical service manuals, change documents, material & process specifications, test plans, maintenance & repair records and many other forms of accountability. This paper describes how a collaborative network can be modeled around this configuration management requirement. It will partition and decompose rotorcraftengineering data into independent configuration management items and explain how Object Oriented (OO) design philosophies and Unified Modeling Language (UML) methods can maximize an architect’s ability to integrate disparate data into a collaborative network.
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