IEEE Draft Trial-Use Standard for Software Interface for Maintenance Information Collection and Analysis (SIMCA): Exchanging Maintenance Action Information (MAI) Via the Extensible Markup Language (XML)

This standard is intended to promote and facilitate interoperability between components of automatic test systems. The standard facilitates the capture of maintenance action information associated with the removal, repair, and replacement of system components to maintain/support an operational system. The maintenance action information schema becomes a class of information that can be used within the SIMICA family of standards. The exchange format utilizes the XML formats.