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Integration of what?<br />

• hardware, software, mechanical elements<br />

• data buses, RF apertures<br />

• related, interacting, closely associated, similar functions<br />

& controls (reduce duplication)<br />

• distributed in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

� e.g., fusion <strong>for</strong> more meaningful pilot info (“smart alerting”, EMACS)<br />

� e.g., improve per<strong>for</strong>mance (flight + thrust control, ECS)<br />

• displays, controls, LRUs (esp. single-thread)<br />

• BIT<br />

� increase fault isolation accuracy<br />

� reduce NFF/CND/RETOK* from 50% to < 10%<br />

• organizations, people<br />

• entire aviation system<br />

ref.: P. Gartz: “Trends in Avionics <strong>Systems</strong> Architecture”, presented at the 9th DASC, Virginia Beach/VA, Oct. ‘90, 23 pp.<br />

ref.: Avionics <strong>Systems</strong> Eng. & Maint. Committee (ASEMC) of the Air Transport Ass’n (ATA)<br />

ref.: Avionics Magazine, Feb. 1996, p. 12<br />

* ATA est. NFF cost to US airline<br />

industry ≈ $100M p.a., avg $800 per<br />

removal (labor, shipping, sparing)<br />

52<br />

©1995-1997 F.M.G. Dörenberg

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