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With the critical need for accurate and complete technical information for maintenance personnel in the military, the Interactive Electronic Technical Manual or IETM promises the answer using a convergence of existing online publishing technologies.

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With the critical need for accurate and complete technical information for maintenance personnel in the military, advances have been made to provide that information online to the point where electronic access to the information involves nothing more futuristic than a laptop computer and access to a database. Though this does not sound very exciting, it is an evolution over previous generations of printed manuals and written procedures of information about equipment that the military operates and maintains. This online maintenance information is sometimes referred to as an Interactive Electronic Technical Manual or IETM, but as you can see, there is nothing very unique about this compared to other documentation efforts - get the information in a database, provide it online as needed, and make it interactive for easy access by the user. This might be oversimplifying the description of a concerted effort to make technical information more easily available.

So if you need more information on IETM, find more by using these resources:

Recently it was asked on a Google discussion if anyone in the private sector uses IETM. Briefly, some call it Electronic Technical Manual, ETM, and the name for these in the commercial realm is Computerized Maintenance Management System, CMMS. Here are a few sites:

And if that's not enough alphabet soup for you, there's always: