Project Title: REDARS (Reference Engineering Data Automated Retrieval System)
The Boeing Company provides products and services to customers in 145 countries. Boeing has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for more than 40 years, and is a global market leader in military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services.
The Challenge
REDARS (Reference Engineering Data Automated Retrieval System) is a technical document management system used to store a vast number of technical documents. The system enables the retrieval and display of these documents by multiple simultaneous users located the world over. A web-based interface was required to accommodate both internal company employees located anywhere in the world and system users employed by partner companies, sub-contractors, etc.The REDARS system was first developed by the customer organization in the early 90's.
The majority of the over 10 million documents maintained by REDARS are engineering and tooling drawings for airplanes. REDARS permits users with a web browser to search for documents, view documents, and print documents. Program interfaces would need to load new documents, update user entitlement, query for documents, and print documents.
The REDARS system urgently needed to be re-engineered. The previous version had become woefully inadequate in terms of performance, capacity and security. Special importance was placed on security due to the highly sensitive and classified data handled by REDARS. The security system needed to recognize a wide range of user profiles with different permission sets, seamlessly work with other systems via web services and integrate with company-wide security systems.
The Solution
The upgraded system:- reduces operational and future development costs
- increases the ability to support new customer requirements and host new products
- supports over 150,000 users worldwide
- handles over 2 terabytes of information (over 10 million documents)
- is available 24x7
- stores drawing with different structures and attributes
- employs a distributed, clustered architecture
- improves scalability, portability, productivity, manageability, security
Tools and Technologies
- Java (J2EE) employing the EAD4J enterprise application development framework for building Web applications
- DB2 with datalinks
- IBM WebSphere
- OS - AIX
- Web services
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