Technical documentation is a very broad word used in tender documents/Scope Documents. They put the heading as Technical Documentation and in brackets write IETM Level 4 or IETM class 4 mentioning EED- S-048 OR DME 452 OR NCD 1470 JSS 0251 and JSG 0852 standards and ask OEM to deliver in DVDs and some sets of Hard copies.

1. Documentation standards Vs IETM Standard EED-S-048 |DME
452 |NCD 1470 |JSS 251 |JSG 0852
Technical documentation is a very broad word used in tender documents/Scope Documents. They put the
heading as Technical Documentation and in brackets write IETM Level 4 or IETM class 4 mentioning EED-
S-048 OR DME 452 OR NCD 1470 JSS 0251 and JSG 0852 standards and ask OEM to deliver in DVDs and
some sets of Hard copies.
Some SOTRs may even have Training Aids under Technical documentation.

2. Steps for Creating Technical Documentation:
(step 1&2 is done by OEM and Step 3 is executed by the IETM Software Vendor)
STEP 1 (Content writing) Writing content/ preparing the manual based on
the standards (EED-S-048, DME 452 OR NCD
1470.)
STEP -2 Standardising/ formatting the content Converting the raw content into a proper
technical document using JSS standard.
STEP -3 Converting the final PDF manuals to
IETM
Converting the approved/vetted Manul to the
IETM database using the IETM authoring tool /
IETM software.

3. Your Scope or SOTR shared by the Indian Navy to make IETM
will have the Standard names i.e. EED-S-048 OR DME 452 OR
NCD 1470.
EED-S-048 These are Naval standards. Specification of
Documentation for new
Construction Ships,
DME 452 The Directorate of Marine
Engineering (DME) is a part of
the Materiel Branch and
works under the overall
command and control of the
Chief of Materiel, as PSO, and
Assistant Chief of Materiel
(Dockyard & Refits) as APSO.
Documentation Specifications
NCD 1470 Director of Standardisation –
Department of Defence
Production
Requirements For Preparation
of Documentation For Hull
Equipment, Structure, Material
and System
JSS 0251-01:2015 (Rev no. 2) JOINT SERVICES
SPECIFICATION (JSS)
Procedure for preparation and
production of technical
publications for electronic
and electrical equipment
JSG 0852: 2001 Reaffirmed
2019
Joint Services Guide (JSG) Indian defence standard to
make IETM

4. EED-S-048, DME 452, and NCD 1470:
are purely standards defined by the Navy guiding OEMs to follow these guidelines while making
documentation. These are purely technical stuff, and only Defence scientists or technical teams of OEMs
who were involved in the development of equipment/devices can prepare. They need domain expertise.
These are absolutely in no way relevant to IETM development.
By adhering to EED-S-048 OR DME 452 OR NCD 1470 these standards your technical team will make
manuals i.e. User handbooks,Technical Manuals, Maintenance manuals, MRSL etc.
The content may be written poorly formatted by the domain experts as, aesthetically arranging and making
a table of contents, header, footers etc. is not the work of technical people.
Once this content is written by the experts the documentation team will come to the picture.
These documents are re-arranged and re-formatted as per JSS– 0251 standards.

5. Following is the Sequence of Contents to Be Followed While
Making Document:
Front/cover page which is printed on thicker paper or laminated
The title page is the same as the Front-page
Record of changes
List of other associated handbooks
Safety warnings in red colour
First-aid instructions
Cautions & Notes
Demolition instructions
Change Notice
List of contents
List of illustrations
Text/ content
The separate card titled Illustrations
Illustrations
Sepaarte card titles Appendix“A”, B,C
Appendix or appendices
Back Cover Page

6. Once the document is made available this will be shared with
DGǪA and other competent authorities i.e. defence labs etc.
Once these documents are fully vetted they enter into to next phase which is IETM.
The approved PDFs will be shared with IETM vendors like us/code and pixels for converting to IETM
based on JSG 0852 standard, which is the standard defined to make IETMs.
In short, the work of the IETM service provider starts, once your final manuals are frozen or vetted by the
end client.
The IETM service provider is not an expert in the domain, and the IETM team consists of all the software
development team like, Angular Java programmers, database engineers, content integrators, and Quality
assurance team etc., and they are not experts in the domain hence what whatever manual is made
available to the team they simply convert every line into database and creates Database of the manuals.