Royal Navy Manuals

Converting and Maintaining Royal Navy Technical Publications

The Royal Navy (RN) has over 2 million pages of technical documentation supporting the different ships, marine engineering systems and combat systems currently in service.

Challenge

With a significant number of legacy paper based documents, the RN found that their publications were becoming increasingly difficult to manage. As publications often covered equipment that were common to a number of ships and that were in service for a long period of time they were prone to regular revisions.

Solution

LSC Group were contracted to assist in the conversion of 12500 Books of Reference (BR) into electronic data modules in accordance with security classifications (DefStan 00-60) - making their publications fit for the requirement of modern information management.

With the RN keen to maintain this improved position, LSC Group were awarded a further contract to support the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of all their BRs as Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETPs).

Benefits

LSC Group accurately converted 12500 BRs, processing over two million pages of RN technical publications into electronic format. This activity has led to the following benefits:

Reduced the storage burden
Removed the complexities associated with maintaining paper documents
Improved the ability to revise existing content through-life
Reduced revision costs for IETP amendments compared to hard copy publications
Reduced time taken to deliver revised publications to the Fleet

LSC Group continues to update and revise the RN BRs to include design, support and technical changes.