We are chartered to develop full text and graphics information retrieval applications internal to Boeing. Our client for this application, Boeing Commercial Airplane Operations Technology, is chartered to make sure that the manufacturing technologies in use in the Commercial Airplane are kept appropriately close to the state of the art. Roughly 100 photos added monthly. Disadvantages Slow to retrieve documents. Complete retrieval can be problematic.
Manual system contains errors.
Users tend to stop when they get fed up, rather than when they've gotten precisely what they need. The system in place when this effort started was entirely manual. More than 40,000 photographs, slides, negatives, overheads, line drawings and other visual materials had been accumulated over the life of the Company. The collection was organized by a paper index system, in wooden file drawers. On occasion, as many as several hundred photographs had been added to the system in a single month.