Electronic Enterprise Integration Committee

Introductory briefing

February 2009

Unpublished work © 2009 Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.

Executive Summary

• Identity– What is the AIA?– What is the EEIC?– What does the EEIC do?

• Problem– What is the Industry Problem to be solved?– Vision for the Future

• Approach– EEIC Approach to Interoperability

• Operating Style– Member Responsibilities– Meetings– Telecons

Identity

AIA Purpose and Structure

EEIC Purpose & Structure

EEIC Concept of Operations

AIA Overview

• The Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, materiel, and related components, equipment, services, and information technology.

Strategic planning

AIA Exists to Advance the Aerospace Industry in the United States

2008

Five Strategic Focus Areas (4 external & 1 internal)

Two measurable performance goals for each strategic focus area

2009

Measures of success for each performance goal

Specific performance targetsfor each measure of successin 2008 and 2009

EEIC Overview

Supplier ManagementCouncil

Electronic EnterpriseIntegration Committee

eBusiness Steering Group

Board of Governors.

Investigate, Evaluate & Propose Electronic Interoperability standards

And Develop Guidelines

Special Projects Special Projects

RecommendationsRecommendations

Proposals Proposals

Endorse Send Back

EEIC Is the Working Arm of Both SMC and eBSG

• EEIC is chartered jointly by eBSG and SMC and reports to both

• EEIC has Co-Chairs who represent both chartering organizations

• EEIC has a standing charter which drives ongoing activity

• eBSG or SMC periodically make requests to EEIC for investigation or analysis

• EEIC sends recommendations to the chartering organizations which they accept and elevate to the BOG, or send back for more work

• EEIC reaches out to relevant projects in other Committees, eg. EMC, PSC, Legal

Charter

Undertakes projects to propose standards enabling interoperability in

the Aerospace industry

What does the EEIC do?

• Based on the AIA objective, the overall concept of operations of the EEIC is to:– Solicit, identify and rationalize specific business requirements.– Identify and assess key standards and initiatives, as framework

components within an overall framework for eBusiness– Develop AIA position statements on relevant

standards/initiatives– Undertake projects to ensure that appropriate standards are

available to industry in a timely manner, together with suitable guidance material if required

– Develop guidelines for deployment of such components to meet specific business scenarios

– Seek industry endorsement of the resulting standards and solutions

The EEIC Is Chartered to Recommend Interoperability Standards

The Problem

The Industry ProblemIndustry Changes

Global Enterprise NeedsBusiness Case

End State Vision

What is the Industry Problem?

Cost of a single interface ranges from $10K to $1M depending on scope and complexity

• Today’s reality… multiple point-to-point solutions generate excessive cost and complexity

• Examples of industry gaps and/or inefficiencies:

- Lack of shared trust infrastructure impeding collaboration between partners

- Increasing number of customer-unique portals adding cost to suppliers

- Multiple, redundant, incompatible “IDE systems” within the industry

- Incompatibilities in information exchange contribute to delay, rework, and error

• Excessive cost and complexity impeding supply chain agility

• Expected business results not yet realized with development of ebusiness standards

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Need enabling capability to avoid one-off solutions and achieve transformational change

Industry Perspective

excessive cost and

complexity

PublicExchange

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Changes in the Aerospace Environment

• Numerous Governmental, Military and Commercial activities continue to enter into the Aerospace environment, requiring ever-evolving responses from the industry members– Net Centric Warfare– DOD Continuous Process Improvement– ATA eBusiness activities– Federated Identity Management – Bridges– E3AG, BoostAeroSpace & other International ventures– Adoption of ASD S1000D and S3000L specifications– Information Assurance– UID/RFID– Convergence of commercial and military processes– Move to contractor logistics support

Demands To Comply Drain Company Resources Building One-Off Solutions that Do Not Integrate

Well

Global Electronic Enterprise Needs

Companies have achieved some measure of ebusiness success

−Reduced Inventory−Reduced Material Cost−Reduced Supply Base−Better Utilization of

Agreements−Reduced Headcount− Improved Speed / Cycle

TimesFurther benefits largely dependent upon electronic penetration of the customer and supply base

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Industry Level Response is Needed to Continue to Realize Benefits

• Orchestrate a Common Plan at Industry level

• Identify common ebusiness interface scenario models

• Identify a consistent methodology for work

• “Normalize” the data models and other components

• Provide a forum for driving all Electronic Enterprise standards work

• Consistently connect Electronic Enterprise components to Enterprise Interface Solutions

Information Backbone Drivers

EEIC Challenge is simplification through industry-level development of ‘e’ policy and standards

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Information Security

Evolving technologies, standards, and other IT-related capabilities are becoming more complex. “Information Backbone” brings together relevant initiatives to simplify ebusiness connections across the entire supply chain

InformationStandards

Public/PrivateRegistries

Standards Bodies

SAML PKI

UDDI

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XML EDI

STEP

Web Services

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XML SOAP

InternetStandardsHTTP HTML

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Business Case for Electronic Integration

Supplier Benefits• Reduced cost of order entry and administration• Larger incentive for non-electronic suppliers to adopt ebusiness• Avoid or minimize added staff to manage ebusiness orders• Common interface to Primes

Prime Benefits• Increased number of suppliers willing to accept ebusiness• Implement new electronic processes to a more capable supplier

base• Reduce costs through simplification of processes and systems with

adoption of standards• Achieve a larger portion of their ebusiness cost benefits• Common adoption of eCollaboration capabilities and processes

Adoption of standards enables more efficient supply chain integration

Intuitively, the adoption of standards is the right thing to do… regardless of size of company

Electronic Enterprise End State Vision

• AIA members are committed to the following vision for eBusiness across our industry:

All participants in the aerospace value chain will be able to exchange information relative to product design, business relationships, transactions, and product support across an information backbone which is open and accessible to all.

“Information Backbone”spanning the Industry

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“Information Backbone”

Information Backbone Built from Policy, Infrastructure and Standards – Not Common Tools

Approach

Standards StrategyConcept of OperationsProject tracking Radar

Standards Assessment CriteriaGoing Forward Strategy

The Path to AIA eBusiness Interoperability

• Many eBusiness scenarios can be identified• Many standards and initiatives have the potential to

satisfy part of the overall industry requirement for interoperability– Between companies and business partners– Between functions in an organisation– Between application systems

• Challenge:– reduce overall cost and complexity by identifying the most

appropriate solution components – provide concrete guidance on how to satisfy specific

business requirements using an appropriate selection of those components

Standards strategy

Path to AIA eBusiness StandardsIn order of preference

1. AIA adopts existing standards for use in the aerospace industry

2. AIA influences standards organizations through participation to meet its requirements

3. AIA develops its own standards when none exists from standards organizations• AIA may then submit a proposal to the applicable standards organization for

international adoption

In each case• The AIA may supplement existing standards with aerospace-agreed

implementation conventions (subset), models/examples, and guidelines

High Level Framework

Key Components for Building Interoperability

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AIA GuidelinesAIA Guidelines

Information behind the “Radar blip”

• Abstract• Full Title of Standard or Initiative (Acronym)

– Responsible organisation• Lead Organization within AIA

– Other stakeholders – by function/organisation• Business justification• Description of activity/deliverables• Business benefits • Location in EEIC Framework• EEIC Action Plan – Monitor/Participate/Develop/Adopt – Guidelines?• EEIC Status (updated as necessary)• Adoption plan• Stakeholder adoption statement (final disposition)• AIA recommendation (published on AIA website)• Link to a standards host site• Link to supporting material

• Used for new tasks and updates• Word template – stored in PDF form

Assessment Criteria

Ensure Compliance with Guiding Principles• Based on the results of science, technology and

experience; promotes optimum community benefits.• Provides clear business value & supports the industry

business strategy and requirements• Must align with the context of an overall architecture

strategy that is driven by the business• Leverage available standards and technologies, first

within aerospace, then in the broader market• Partner with aero-related groups to increase adoption

and lower workload: ATA, ASD, other AIA Councils etc.

Qualify against Standards Selection Criteria• Basis for one or more Framework Components• Web / Internet-based standards• Preferably globally accepted• “Open” host organization committed to collaboration

with other groups to ensure interoperability• SW/HW vendor participation in the process and

commitment to use the results in their products• Critical mass for adoption• Interoperability with the standards used by our

customers and supplier

Evaluate against Architectural Principles• Business must drive information technology

architecture decisions: • Use industry proven approaches• Open and/or vendor neutral standards• The architecture must enable secure communications

and appropriate protection of information and technology.

• Reduce integration complexity: Keep it simple.

• Evaluate against AIA project criteria• The project proposal needs to satisfy the criteria

established by the AIA for all new projects.• Within EEIC charter and scope. • An issue the AIA can effectively address. • A clearly defined and measurable outcome. • Clearly defined sunset provisions. • Senior-level commitment from multiple AIA member

companies. • Contributes to AIA meeting its goals and objectives. • A clearly defined "customer pull" or "company push."

AIA eBusiness Implementation Guidebook

• Concept of operations• eBusiness Interoperability Framework

• Description of framework and its use – simplified from MoU/MG model• Lower levels of detail for boxes where needed• Selection criteria for different components within a box

• Radar screen • Blips• EEIC standards selection process

• Building a solution• Extending the framework• Extensible taxonomy of framework components

• Shows coverage of adopted blips – matrix against framework• Populated from adopted blips – list of blips in framework classification• Common guidance information

• Extensible set of scenarios and corresponding solutions– Scenarios – in business terms– AIA eBusiness Framework Components required– Architectural guidance – design time– Implementation guidance – build time– Operational guidance – run time

• Annex – The MoU/MG framework – colour coded to AIA Framework

Going Forward Strategy

• Recommended Approach from eBSG:

– AIA members agree to implement ebusiness standards as developed and approved by the AIA

– Transactional data presented to suppliers through prime contractor “portals” shall also be made available to suppliers in an automatable electronic format

– Each prime develops its own roadmap and schedule to compliance over long term

– Companies re-engineer processes and deploy tools as required to achieve maximum benefit from adoption of industry standards -- at their own pace

Agreement to Move Together, but NOT Mandated Compliance

Operating Style

Operating Style: Member Responsibilities

Your Challenge - Member company representatives must:

• Speak authoritatively for their company on all “e” matters– Coordinate internally in your company and maintain communication with

your AIA leadership

• Adopt an Industry, not Company-specific frame of reference

• Represent a balance of “business” and “technical”, “Commercial” and “Defense” perspectives; and

• Provide the necessary company support (e.g. resources, direction, etc.) to enable “e” decisions to be made and implemented by AIA as well as coordinate with company eBSG and SMC members.

• Attend Face-to-Face meetings (3/year) and bi-weekly Telecons– Every other Monday Tel:  +1 866 309 0490 Access: *6990584*

Appendix 1: Glossary & Acronyms

Glossary & Acronyms - Organizations

• AIA – Aerospace Industries Association• ATA – Air Transport Association• ASD – Aerospace and Defence Industries

Association of Europe• BOG – AIA Board of Governors• eBSG – eBusiness Steering Group• EEIC – Electronic Enterprise Integration Committee• EMC – Engineering and Manufacturing Committee• PSC – Product Support Committee• SMC – Supplier Management Council

Glossary & Acronyms – Radar screen

• ebXML – eBusiness eXtensible Markup Language• EKM – Electronic Knowledge Management• EDI – Electronic Data Interchange• FIPS – Federal Information Processing Standard• GECA – Global Electronic Collaboration Agreement• GTPA – Global Trading Partner Agreement• IADFA – International Aerospace and Defense Federation Alliance • LOTAR – Long Term Archiving and Retention• NCO-CDE – Net- Centric Operations – Common Data Environment• OTD – Open Technical Dictionary• PKI – Public Key Infrastructure• PLCS – Product Life Cycle Support• PM/EVM – Program Management/ Earned Value Management• REACH-IT - Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals • RFID – Radio Frequency Identification• SOA – Service Oriented Architecture• STEP- Standard for the Exchange of Product model data• TDP – Technical Data Package• TSCP- Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program(me)• UDEF – Universal Data Element Framework• UID – Unique IDentification

Glossary & Acronyms – Other

• FTP – File Transfer Protocol• HTML – HyperText Markup Language• HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol • ISO – International Organization for Standardization• OASIS – Organization for the Advancement of Structured

Information Standards • SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language • SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol • SOAP –Simple Object Access Protocol • UDDI – Universal Description, Discovery and Integration • UML – Unified Modeling Language • WSDL – Web Services Definition Language• W3C – World-Wide Web Consortium • XML – eXtensible Markup Language