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 Briefing Agenda

NASDAC Mission and Vision

EAPAS-AW Objectives
EA Data Mart Features
AW Data Cube Features
Accessing NASDAC

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 NASDAC Mission
“NASDAC enhances system safety decision-making by
providing high quality safety information, analytical capabilities,
services, and technology to the aerospace community.”

HOURS Spotfire Display

Data 100,000
Warehouse
- OLAP DBMS
80,000
Data
Visualization Statistics 60,000
Domain
Natural Knowledge 40,000
(Customer)
Language Data
Processing Mining 20,000

Data
Reporting Preparation 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000
CYCLES

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 EAPAS-AW Objectives
Section W.4; EAPAS Plan: Strategy - develop
automated SDR reporting system, allowing
trend analysis.
1. SDR system data dictionary [update] to FAA metadata
repository
2. Produce NASDAC Data Mart Prototype Design
Enhanced Airworthiness Data Mart now available at NASDAC
Aging Wiring Data Cube prototype now available at NASDAC
3. Conduct Pre-NPRM Trend Analysis
Demonstration w/Prototype
4. Perform Post-NPRM Trend Analysis
Demonstration w/ Mart & Tools

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 Aging Wiring Trend Analysis Development Schedule

EAPAS-AW Requirements Development

W.4.1 W.4.3
Sept. 02 Jan. 03 May 03

Collect Requirements, Demo Prototype

Beta Site Prototype & Test

Implement Requirements and Operate OLAP

NASDAC Extranet Portal Operations

W.4.2 W.4.4

Install, Test, Announce to Users

EADM*
Operations
(June)

* EADM = Enhanced Airworthiness Data Mart W.4.1 = EAPAS Plan Paragraph

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 Requirements Team Activity
ACO Representative Individual Role & Objectives
Provide certification engineering expertise (SME) to the ASY-led team
¯ Deliver Process Knowledge [Comments - Oral and Written]
¯ Deliver Airworthiness Certification Decision Knowledge [same]
Team Objectives
Define computer-based data Trend Analysis Requirements
¯ Examine Text Mining Thesaurus Technology
¯ Examine Text Mining Categorization Technique
¯ Examine Text Mining Data Extraction Technique
Prototype software review and comment
Beta software exercise, review and comment
Affirm and validate Trend Analysis Capability
¯ Enable a predictive analytical mode

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 EADM Composition

Merged Datasets
SDR Data
AirClaims Data*

Exposure:
Aircraft Mfr Date
Aircraft Flight Hours
Aircraft Cycles

Aircraft N, Make, Model, Series

*Large Transport Aircraft

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 Overview of Technical Approach

(Workstation)
OLAP Analysis
NASDAC &
AFS-600 Review
SDR Staging Area
Data
NASDAC
EAPAS AW Portal
Key-based nn97 Designed
Integration Filter Dataset Reports
Mm/yy
Text
AirClaims
Data 30-day Assessment
ACO
Process
Update Users
AW
Cycle
Thesaurus
Ver N.n AW Dataset
(Preprocessing
30-day Cycle)

NASDAC
User Group
(Thesaurus Mgmt)

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 NASDAC EADM

There are two strategies to

approaching the database:

Metadata about the

data set

Secondly, we offer
the “Cube” View

One is the query

approach.

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 Simple Query Illustration

This field is for text

searches of the SDR
narrative.

This active field is

used to select a
manufacturer.

This active field is

used to specify the
model of interest.

Query Purpose:
• Which parts/components are failing,
• Where (aircraft make, model, location)
• When (aircraft age, hours, cycles), and
• How (poor design (chafing)) (poor technique
(incorrect attachment, abrasion))?

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 Results of Query
The number of records
matching the query .
This is a copy of the SQL
This size of the Code in the query.
database in records.

This link will take

you to the specific
record.

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 Prototype Aging Wiring Thesaurus Specifications

Specifications
AW § 900 Terms
e saurus
Th .1 § 425 Synonymous Relationships
Ver 0
§ Maximum of 3 hierarchical levels
Ø 275 Top Terms
Ø 270 Narrower/Broader
Terms Relationships
Ø 315 Related Term
Relationships

SME Domain: Electrical Wiring Systems

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 Prototype On-line User Interface

This selection invokes

Thesaurus Menu Options synonyms to “broken”, e.g.,
broke, break

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 Prototype On-line Results
This Result – 5 Records
Other result w/o Thesaurus (exact match) – 3 Records

Also expect to investigate Oracle’s “fuzzy

logic” for typo’s and stem [term] matching.

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 Data Cube View – Worksheet Aircraft by Age

Worksheet Views
may be customized
to user specifications

Aircraft Age in Years (Row)

Manufacturer SDR
Total
Manufacturer
(Column)

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 Aging Wiring Sheet View

This is the selected

sheet
The user may select
an operator’s fleet

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 Cube Drill-down Results
The few records in the
database show early
voluntary participation
This line shows total
records with “wire”
specified
This “blank” line shows
system wiring records total

The “-” indicates drill-

down complete.

The “+” indicates records

below for drill-down.

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 Trend Analysis Illustration
Pareto Chart
The Pareto principle
describes a
phenomenon in
which 80 percent of
variation observed
in everyday
processes can be
explained by a mere
20 percent of the
causes of that
variation.

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 Conclusion
AW Requirements Team to complete an examination of:
- Thesaurus – Text Mining Technology
- Unstructured Data Categorization – Text Mining
- Data Visualization – Data Mining-type Examination for Trend Analysis
NASDAC [ASY] Role consistent with CPSRT Direction:
- Safety Information Awareness
Data Management
Timely Field Information

NASDAC Mission progression:

- Provide state-of-the-art
technologies for safety issue
analysis
Welcome to Visit our
Demonstration Table and
NASDAC [HQ Room 1006]
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 Questions ?

Questions?

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