Search for data analysis or authoring
X-Hive/AMDS-DS has extensive search capability for maintenance program tasks, job cards, engineering projects, graphics, structured manuals and unstructured manuals. Searches can be executed, refined and stored.

Boolean expressions
With X-Hive/AMDS-DS mechanics and engineers can specify over 200 search criteria. Searches can be refined and exported. X-Hive/AMDS-DS supports full text search with boolean expressions and wild cards.

Search results
Searches can be used for mechanics as a tool to find manual components, ad hoc work instructions or fault analysis procedures.

Effectivity Filtering
Effectivity filtering is applied for searches and content viewing or printing. Popup helper dialogs provide an easy way of specifying effectivity.

Location applicability
X-Hive/AMDS-CMS allows authors to condition content fragments for specific locations such as the Hangar, Line and the Shop. X-Hive/AMDS-DS takes advantage of these conditions by creating views of the content applicable for the location where the maintenance activity takes place. Conditions are supplied as part of the maintenance visit detail or user preferences.

Organizational applicability
X-Hive/AMDS is ready for both in-sourcing and out-sourcing. Content conditions can be set to specify whether parts of the manual or job cards are visible for organizations executing the maintenance activity. Content is filtered according to security rules. End-users will see custom content for their environment. Examples of organizational applicability are: "third party vendor", "in-sourced from airline X" etc.

Interfacing scheduling and planning systems
X-Hive/AMDS-DS integrates with existing planning and scheduling systems to retrieve scheduled visits by location. Integration can be built based on the X-Hive/AMDS-DS application programming interface. Visits can be updated from external systems by adding, removing or overriding particular visits jobs.

Check matrix
X-Hive/AMDS-DS has a unique way of compiling the work package per visit. The check matrix is part of the job card based on check type and effectivity assignment. When a visit is opened X-Hive/AMDS-DS will collect all relevant job cards for the specified visit based on the check matrix requirements. From that moment on job cards become active documents specific for the selected visit. The content is therefore automatically tailored for the visit on a specific date and location executed by a particular maintenance organization.

Visit status
The X-Hive/AMDS-DS visit manager keeps track which visits are in which state. Visits go from "initialized" to "open", "closed" into an "archived" state.

Printing packages
Visits can be printed by selecting either the entire visit, specific workcard types such as Engineering Cards, Panel Cards, Monitors, Log Pages etc or by job ranges. Print dates are stored in X-Hive/AMDS-DS and reprints show "copy" "duplicate" watermarks. Visits are printed to print queues. A print API is available to monitor spooling to the local or remote printer and to provide error handling.

Tally, Tools, Parts reports
Tally, Tools, Parts, Notes and Drawing reports are available for a visit in both HTML and PDF formats.

Visit, Job signoffs
X-Hive/AMDS-DS generates controlling documents when visits are opened such as a visit and job signoff cards. Access panel tables are automatically filled based on the configuration of the aircraft and specific visit requirements.

Complete Archive database
X-Hive/AMDS-DS maintains a complete archive of past visits. Closed visits are stored in a separate archive database. The X-Hive/AMDS-DS application can connect to the active and the archive databases where search, analysis, viewing and printing capabilities are available for the entire archive.

Overnight visits
Overnight visits are available through the visit manager. Speed dialogs can open and print multiple visits from the search result dialog.

Add hoc searches for manual content
In time-critical situations at the gate ad-hoc searches, fault analysis tools and pre-defined solutions significantly reduce the time to get the aircraft back into the air. X-Hive/AMDS-DS significantly reduces the time to trouble-shoot a problem and find the required maintenance content. The X-Hive/AMDS-DS process data module implementation enables a integration of maintenance manual content and fault analysis reducing the time to find the right maintenance content.

Simple and effective User Interface
X-Hive/AMDS-DS was designed in close partnership with base and line mechanics. The primary design goal was to minimize the effort to find the right maintenance content. X-Hive/AMDS-DS benefits from the modular approach of the S1000D standard where maintenance content is dynamically constructed for a particular task or activity. Dynamically assembled maintenance content can contain information from all traditional manuals such as the fault isolation manual, the maintenance manual, the illustrated parts catalog etc.

Interactive fault analysis
X-Hive/AMDS-DS implements the S1000D Process Data Module allowing engineers to define interactive fault analysis applications.

Gathering Information
Process Data Module documents can be used to gather information during the fault analysis by defining dialogs.

Manual construction
Process Data Module execution leads to a sequence of data modules retrieved from the X-Hive/AMDS-DS database. A sequence of data modules can be rendered into a resulting ad-hoc manual.