Starting from the ESACS Project results, ISAAC aims at going a step further into the improvement and integration of safety activities of aeronautical complex systems, focusing the research on the following three dimensions:

• Extension of formal techniques to deal with human error, common cause analysis, mission analysis, and testability. This will help providing a more comprehensive tool-supported coverage of the safety analysis process.

• Improvement of the ESACS notations to represent safety requirements and qualitative (timing) and quantitative aspects.  This will help improving interaction and increasing the quality of the results provided by tools.

• Integration, achieved through common methodological recommendations and shared libraries and interfaces. This is one of the keys to improve, e.g, the efficiency of industrial processes, that more often rely on the use of different tools.

ISAAC's results will be used by the partners to improve their safety process for their present and future programs. The results will also be disseminated to other areas, like, e.g., transportation (railway and automotive), industrial process control, energy production.

Patnership: Alenia, Airbus, Saab, SIA, Dassault, ITC, Onera, Offis, Prover

Project Home Page: http://www.cert.fr/isaac/principal.html 

The objective of the TATEM Integrated Project is to validate technologies and techniques which can be used to transfer unscheduled maintenance to scheduled maintenance and provide the means to make the maintenance task more efficient and effective.

The technologies and techniques to be validated include:

• Novel onboard sensor technology to gather data from the aircraft systems (avionics, utilities, actuation, engines and structures)

• Maintenance-free avionics

• Signal processing techniques (e.g. fuzzy, logic, neural networks, model-based reasoning) which can be used to convert data into information about the health of the systems

• Diagnostic methods to identify and locate failures and malfunctions and so reduce the number of incidences of no fault found

• Prognostic methods to provide support for preventative maintenance actions

• Decision support techniques to provide the maintenance crew with process-oriented information and guidance

• Human interface technologies to provide the ground crew with information at their point of work

Patnership: More than 50 partners including European Aeronautic Industries, Technology Providers, Universities and Research Centers.

Project Home Page: http://www.tatemproject.com 

The project aims to model, validate and provide tool support for cross-organisational Product and its associated customers' services Configuration Management (PCM) within the context of a virtual enterprise (VE) 

Patnership: Alenia Aeronautica (I); SIA (I); Dassault Systemes (F); EADS-CCR (F); Glasgow Caledonian University (UK); IBM (F); Renault (F) 

Project Home Page: www.diecom.org 

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The project aims to enhance the safety analysis in the Complex Systems engineering process in order to:

• Achieve a higher confidence in developing safe and reliable complex systems

• Facilitate for development and certification of evolving technologies

• Contribute to reduction of development time

Patnership: Alenia Aeronautica (I); SIA (I); Airbus France (F); Airbus UK (UK); Airbus Deutschland (D); SAAB (S) ITC (I); ONERA (F); OFFIS (D); Prover Technology (S); University of Bordeaux (F); University of York (UK). 

Project Home Page: www.cert.fr/esacs/principal.html 

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An advanced cross-communication enviroment providing support services to dispersed maintenance and technical support engineers

Patnership: SIA(I); JRC-ISIS(EU); CISI-AID(I); CS-SI(I); CASA(E); Turin Politechnic(I); VECCHIA(I); HISPASAT (E); GTD(E); Metriqs(I); Maple(I) 

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The project aim is the setting-up of an enviroment to support activities of a Distributed Engineering taking care of the System Design and System Verification phases. 

Partnership: Alenia Space (I); AM Lanceurs(F); IABG(D); Silogic(F); SIA(I); LIP6 (F); LAAS(F); D3(D) 

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The project aims at extending, validating and standardising the Systems Engineering (SE) data model and nurturing its practical implementation and multi-sector exploitation as a key enabler for the competitiveness of European industries 

Partnership: DASA(D), Alenia Aeronautics (I), AM Lanceurs (F), Bae(UK), EUROSTEP(UK),  Linkoping Univ.(S), Loughbourgh Univ.(UK), SAAB(S), SIA(I), Clausthal Univ.(D)

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The target is to develop applications to allow the IPR Protection of multi media educational material (for academies and industries) based on most promising technological frameworks such MPEG-4 

Partnership: CSELT (I); Editrice del Vascello (I); EPFL (CH); FhG (D); CRL (UK); Philips (NL); Baltzer(NL); Addetti (P); KPN (NL); Avanti(UK)

The aim of this project is to develop a system capable of automatically managing the mission (mission management system, MMS) of an uninhabited air vehicle (UAV), in order to perform a mission in hostile territory almost without the support of the human operator. 

Partnership: Alenia Aerospace (I), SIA (I), Datamat (I), Dassault Aviation (F), Axlog (F)