Believe Qantas (the real one, International) in Australia were investigating a server in head office (Sydney) that was connected to Boeing directly, and all info comes direct from Mr Boeing, updated to the 'Nth' degree naturally. This would be LAN'd to all ports.

Any other manufacturer going this route?

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When all else fails, read the manual!

Our manuals have been put on an “intranet”, a LAN from the mainbase. Unfortunately, what happened is that some beancounter ok’d the idea to scan the old manuals onto the computer, so no text searches or other modern niceties of the computer age, since all of the pages are images. Some pages are in the wrong chapters, and some pages did not get scanned or indexed. Also no backing up from hyperlinks, one has to start the search over again. What has been fun is that our old tapes were taken away to be replaced by the computers, but not all of the manuals have made their way into the computer yet. With no tapes around, if the system fails, no manuals to work with. A real "brother-in-law" project all around.
On a positive note, when the system is correctly setup to a printer, you can print out full size wiring diagrams to color, take notes on, etc.

The longer I am in this field, the more I have to agree with an older mechanic that management’s job is to place obstacles in our path of performing our jobs.