During the first years of the F35 program, the automated ALIS maintenance supervision system for Autonomic Logistics Information System, was presented as the holy grail of military aircraft maintenance. As is often the case with revolutionary new computer systems, the reality quickly moved away from the initial ambitions. Delays in the delivery of spare parts, poor inventory management, excessive information transmitted to the American manufacturer and observed workloads quickly degraded the image of the software, to the point of being now considered as one of the main obstacles to improving the availability of the aircraft. To respond to these criticisms, Lockheed to Design New System more operational, more user-centric, and safer, Operational Data Integrated Network or ODIN.
To achieve this, the American manufacturer did not hesitate to completely rethink the paradigms which governed the design of the ALIS. No more ambition to explain to users how to do their work as efficiently as possible, ODIN will rely, on the contrary, on the requests and expectations expressed by maintenance staff and pilots to structure information, interfaces , and program features. There is also an end to the excessive centralization of information, widely criticized for the ALIS, in particular by the F35 export customers who do not like to see sensitive information sent to the American manufacturer without even being informed. ODIN will therefore have more limited but efficient flows, thus avoiding any form of infobesity (excessive accumulation of digital information without the need for it), and will be based on a highly secure Cloud infrastructure.
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