For use in the manufacturing and supply sectors, the idea is to provide quick and easy access to parts information for suppliers and end-users alike. Before an item can be sold or replaced, it must be identified. This process can be very complex, not least because customers rarely know the exact model number of the faulty equipment. The objective is thus to provide a very simple yet flexible system which will aid users in locating items that they need. This project will aim to produce a generic demonstration system which can be shown to manufacturers and hopefully adopted as a standard.
Information abounds in books, journals and on the net.
There are currently no tools to help organise the information we have found or to help decide what still needs to be found. An integrated enviornment which pulled everything together, simulataneously maintaining links to the original sources while allowing ideas to be shuffled around at will, would be an invaluable aid to researchers of all ages. The original EasyView program for the Macintosh was ported to Windows 3.1 in 1994 and has been in use around the world since then. In fact, a prototype version 2.0 was begun several years ago. I would now like to complete that program.