Boeing CSTAR
Electronic data exchange capabilities between C-17 facilities in Long Beach, California, and St. Louis, Missouri, using STEP
Boeing’s McDonnell Douglas unit using STEP in production to exchange C-17 configuration management data on a daily basis
- In production for 4 years
- Used by engineering for review of configuration
Significant cost and schedule improvements -- manual method was error prone, slow (3 weeks to 2 months; now overnight), and people intensive (3 people full time; now zero)
Expanding capability to use OMG CORBA and SDAI for on demand update/viewing of electronic engineering order system
Participants: Boeing’s McDonnell Douglas unit, Northrop Grumman, IBM, ITI