Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs)

Technicians use electronic documents with information on how to perform maintenance tasks on their assets. These documents could be in various formats like MS Word, PDF, links to HTML files or application used to display technical manuals, and so on. All these documents are referred to collectively as Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM). Examples of such documentation include the appropriate page or chapter of a Maintenance Planning Document (MPD) or Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM).

Maintenix allows you to create IETMs and associate them with existing links and attachments. They are then assigned to configuration slots, part groups, part numbers, task definitions, fault definitions, warranty contracts, vendors, tasks, and faults. You can associate IETMs with any class of requirement, job card, or block. When a requirement is initialized based on a requirement definition, the technical references and attachments of the requirement definition are copied to the newly created requirement as long as they are applicable to the operator and applicability codes of the target inventory of the requirement.

Technical references and attachments not associated with IETMs are referred to as ad hoc technical references and ad hoc attachments.