GENERAL INFORMATION

Terminology:
STDO
This is the Supplier Technical Documentation On-line, also named Supplier Technical Manuals.

CMM
It is an acronym for Component Maintenance Manual Vendor (from Supplier) or Component Maintenance Manual manufacturer (from Airbus).

DFPRM
It is an acronym for Duct and Fuel Pipe Repair Manual.

Aircraft Type
The whole Airbus aircraft programs are considered.

Part Number
It is a 15-character field containing the part number assigned by the manufacturer to identify similar equipment.

ATA Reference
ATA: Air Transport Association.

ATA Reference is composed of a Chapter Number, a Section Number, and a Subject Number.

ATA Chapter: A number that links the aircraft system to a place in the document. It is a 2-digit number (00 up to 99).
ATA Section: Identification number of a section. It is a 2-digit number (00 up to 99).
ATA Subject: Identification number of a subject, unit, or sub-subsystem. It is a 2 or 3 digit (Alphanumeric field).

Reference
It is a 25-character field containing the reference assigned by the manufacturer to identify the document

Engine Model
It is a 20-character field containing the engine model assigned by the manufacturer.

Document Type
It is a technical publication type. A list can be found below.

Supplier Code
Also called CAGE, NSCM, and FSCM Code.

CAGE: Commercial and Government Entity

NSCM: NATO Supply Code for Manufacturers

CAGE code provides five position alphanumeric codes (detailed in Cataloguing Handbook H4/H8) assigned by the Defence Logistics Services Centre (DLSC) in Battla Creek, Michigan, for the identification and location of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers and Sellers. CAGE codes were formerly titled Federal Supply Codes for Manufacturers (FSCM). For non-U.S. and non-Canadian manufacturers, refer to NATO Supply Codes for Manufacturers (NSCM). In the STDO application, we will use the appellation "Supplier code".

Another source of information to locate suppliers is via the website http://www.bpn.gov/bincs/begin_search.asp. It offers search by name, cage code, etc.

Purpose and scope:
To give operators another opportunity to strengthen efficiency in data retrieval & application, Airbus is offering all operators a comprehensive suite of Airbus digital data solutions, which includes also suppliers' data accessible on the Airbus customer portal.

Available on AirbusWorld, the Supplier Technical Documentation service provides an on-line consultation of suppliers' and Airbus' maintenance manuals available to Airlines.

This service allows customers to:
Search for documents by Part Number, Reference , ATA Reference, Document Type, and Engine Model, Aircraft Type, Supplier
Save the search results in Excel format using the “Download” function
View, Print, and “Save As” documents using Acrobat Reader features.

TD VIEW - GLOBAL INDEX

Purpose and scope:
The Global Index is the list of available vendors manuals, with associated applicability.

Global Index section:
On the top part of the screen there is a search interface to retrieve the information you need regarding your documentation.

To execute the query, click on the Search button in the Search area or restart a query by pressing on the Reset button.
There is not maximum number of results displayed for this search, all the data are retrieved by the search. A wait message is displayed to the user to warn him the Global Index is being generated.

Search by Supplier
You can either choose to perform a search on all Suppliers or on a selected group up to ten items.

Search by Aircraft Type
You can either choose to perform a search on all available aircraft types or on a selected group. The display of the result page will add the A/C Type column, if it was not visible.

Search by ATA Reference
The search by ATA Reference can be performed either by specifying only the ATA Chapter or the ATA Chapter and Section or ATA Chapter, Section, and Subject.

Search by Part Number
The search by Part Number is not case sensitive. You can either type the whole 15 characters or the three characters followed by a wildcard (e.g. *). Authorized characters are numbers, letters, '-', and ‘*’. The Part Number is displayed in the result screen.

Display Part Number Option:

Error message:
If the search engine cannot find a result to your query then a "No result found" error message is displayed:

Search Result screen:
The query results section is displayed and described below.
For each document retrieved, if the "Display Part Number Option" is ticked, the Supplier code, Supplier Name, Part Number, Manufacturer Code, description of the part number, Document Type, ATA, Reference, Volume number, Revision Number, Applicability, matching the search criteria are listed.
Otherwise only the Supplier code, Supplier Name, Document Type, ATA, Reference, Volume number, Revision Number, Applicability, matching the search criteria are listed.

Number of records:
The number of records matching the query is displayed in the top and bottom part of the middle frame.

"XX item(s)" : Where XX represents the total number of documents matching the query.

If there are more records than the value set in the "User preferences" menu, then they will be spread in several pages. “ YY of ZZ ” Where YY is the current page number and ZZ the maximum number of returned pages.

Export list link:
The export list hyperlink is used to save the total search result list information in Excel format (.XLS). The displayed columns of information are stored.

TD VIEW - USER PREFERENCES

User preferences section:
The user preferences section allows  user to define the number of rows (10, 20, 25, 30, 50, 100) to be displayed in the page of results.

CONTACTS
For further assistance regarding the STDO application, please contact the Help Desk at AIRBUS (24h a day and 7 days a week):

 Phone Number: +33 (0)5 67 19 11 00
 mailto:airbusworld@airbus.com

RECOMMENDED SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION
 Acrobat Reader 7 to 9 (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)
 Internet Explorer 6 to 8
 Mozilla Firefox 3.5

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