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eRISK (Risk Management Module) is the latest module integrated into the ECLIPSE Suite. It fully supports the specific risk management process needs of space projects and missions. It allows recording, assessing, monitoring, mitigating and/or resolving risks identified and associated with a complex engineering or scientific projects (in accordance to ECSS and ISO standards).

As and added value, Risk and Risk Assessment related actions can be created and managed in the AIM module at any point of the project life cycle. All the decisions made from the Action Items (AIs) can be traced at any time, allowing appropriate project members to have the relevant information to make important and timely decisions regarding the risk item. The eRISK module also provides its users with a reporting possibility that allows producing tabular, and in future visual and trend reports.

Core Features
• ECSS Compliance
• Risk Management
• Risk Analysis
• Reporting Capability
• Pre-defined customisable user roles
• Auditing of changes
• User-level security
• Integrates Risk-related actions with AIM
• Provides user notification

ICM (Industry Capability Mapping) DB is the tool which any organisation (industrial or institutional) serious about strategic technology (and supply chain) management, should have at their disposal. It offers its user the ability to construct and manage a centralized web-based database of organizations (products and services) engaged in (or supplying in) a specific industrial sector. This invaluable asset allows SMEs, Institutions and large prime contractors alike, to better manage their strategic technology programs, reducing technological risk and allowing better-informed decision in procurement.

ICM empowers the organisation supply chain personnel with a web collaborative environment, where they can record and track evolving suppliers capabilities (including key performance indicators of products and service offering) against their own organisation long-term strategic capability and technological requirements.

The European Space Agency (ESA) currently uses ICM DB to manage key aspects of their technology program; the tool provides an up-to-date mapping of the European technological competences and capabilities offering (at National and European level), versus the ESA technology and competences requirements tree.

Core Features

• ECSS Compliance
• Strategic Technology Management
• Reporting Capability
• Strategic Competitor Analysis
• Knowledge Management
• Competences Mapping
• Strategic Supplier Management

For the first time Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical database (EEE DB) offers industry and governmental space project teams, a way of collaborating in populating of a trusted EEE parts database, and the lifecycle management of DCLs (Declared Components Lists) in projects.

EEE is composed by a highly customisable and centralised database in which the managing organisation can store electronically data about pre-qualified (or trusted) EEE parts for use in space projects. And a parallel project-based database that contains all the records of these EEE parts utilisation within DCLs created as part of previous and or concurrent projects.

EEE DB has been designed and built in collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Sapienza.

The currently available release of the EEE application enables the following features:

• Address issues relating to parts selection in space industry projects
• Provide an user-friendly tool that industrial teams trust to use in the creation of electronic official DCLs
• Allow different roles to review and approve the process at various stages
• Permit access to only information specific to the activity and project
• Create an easy to access record of EEE parts used in previous projects
• Display DCLs for all projects where EEE part assigned

Core Features

• Management of EEE parts
• Management of Declared Components Lists (DCLs)
• Knowledge Management
• Reporting Capability
• Actions Management
• ECSS Compliance
• Product Assurance
• Data Integration
• Data Customisation

NCTS is the only web-based (ECSS Standards compliant and ESA proven) application that supports the recording, evolution, reporting and reviewing of Non-Conformances (NC) raised against components of a system, which can be structured in a product-tree like manner.

NCTS enables the collaborative performance of NRBs (Non Conformance Review Boards) and recording of minutes, dispositions and actions. The application allows users from organisations involved in system (design, production or operation) to create Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) and explore different areas of the system based their permissions. Depending on the user's access level, NCTS determines to which section(s) of a product tree this user has access and whether s/he can view or create NCRs (or initiate NRBs). The tool allows the user to enter all the details about the Non-Conformance (and NRB) on-line, including supporting documentation and evidence such as minutes of meetings, images, videos etc.

NCTS has been the European Space Agency (ESA) tool of choice for managing Non-Conformances for nearly a decade. ESA small projects and flagship missions alike, use and benefit from the NCTS application, often inviting their industrial partners to use the NCTS system collaboratively. Several prime contractors and SMEs, have also adopted NCTS, improving their ability to manage internal Non-Conformances as well as those of their suppliers.

Core Features

• ECSS Compliance
• Reporting Capability
• Non-Conformance Review Board
• Web-Based
• Product Tree Based
• Non-Conformance Reporting
• Non-Conformance Management
• Video, Images and Doc Attachments
• Collaborative
• ESA proven

AIM (Action Items Manager) is a web-based application that allows the creation, allocation, monitoring and tracking of Action Items (AIs) and their associated information across small and large project teams alike. Each Action Item (AI) can be allocated to an Actionee and multiple Contributors, who can access and contribute to the Action Items progress, completion and closure via the web, in accordance to security permissions. Each AI enables all those involved to collaborate via a thread-based discussion capability which enables additional information to be provided in the form of video, images or documentation attachments.

As an added value, AIM functions as project actions dashboard, as it monitors and reports on all the workflow actions created by other ECLIPSE suite modules (Document Configuration & Change Management, Review Items of Discrepancy and EEE applications). The AIM application provides its users with a centralised and global access point to all existing actions within a specific project environment.

The AIM application is used by several mission and project teams at the European Space Agency (ESA).

Core Features

• ECSS Compliance
• Email notifications and reminders
• Workflow enabled Action Item Management
• Action discussion thread
• Automatic record retention
• Web-based action item (AI) management
• Interface with other applications
• Management of Action Items Lists
• Multi attachments and files capability

The RID (Review Items of Discrepancy) is the only ESA-proven web-based application that supports space project and mission teams through the preparation, set-up, management and control of formal project and mission reviews (in full compliance to ECSS Standards).

The RID application provides the means for project review participants to access deliverable data packs, contractual or technical baselines as well as requirements documentation via the web. Once securely logged-in participants can fill-in electronically RID forms according the ECSS standards, format and workflow.

The RID application over the last five years has proved particularly beneficial to mid and large sized organisations enabling geographically dispersed multinational teams to collaborate during specific project reviews for RIDs generation, as well during RIDs and actions resolution and closure.

The RID System is currently used by ESA and various industrial partners during formal reviews through the whole lifecycle of space missions as well as for smaller projects and milestones check points during feasibility studies.

Core Features

• Review Item Discrepancy Life Cycle Management
• Actions Management
• Electronic RID forms
• Web-Based
• ECSS Compliance
• Data pack documentation access
• Baselines Management
• Collaborative
• Automatic Record Tracking

The DCCM (Document Configuration and Change Management) application is the only ESA-proven document management system designed for the space sector, which naturally provides its users with an easy path to ECSS standards compliance. The DCCM (secure) collaborative environment offers benefits to the small SMEs projects as well as to multinational Space Agency based “Flagship” Missions (such as those of the ESA).

In the space sector a great deal of documentation is created and exchanged between the many actors participating to any given project or mission. Managing and maintaining a high level of configuration and control over such documentation (and its traffic/exchange) is a challenge, that if not properly addressed, can result in severe project problems if not failures.

DCCM is a web-based application that supports document configuration, review and approval cyclse as well as change management of any document in a project. Moreover, it records the document’s entire evolution (i.e. creation, modification and distribution) throughout its lifecycle.

DCCM is part of the ECLIPSE software suite which is used by the European Space Agency as well its industrial partners.

Core Features

• ECSS Compliance
• Document Configuration
• Document Versioning
• Generation of CIDL, CSAR, CISL reports
• Customisable metadata
• Document Management System
• Document Control
• Web Based
• Management of documentation Applicability
• Document Workflow Management

The European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS), established in 1993, is an organization which works to improve standardization within the European space sector.

The ECSS frequently publishes standards, to which contractors working for ESA must adhere to.

ECLIPSE (ECSS Compliant Toolset for Information and Projects Support of Enterprises in Space) is a suite of software applications, intended for use by aerospace project and mission teams in managing their  IT projects activities.

ECLIPSE objective is to provide a straightforward path to compliance with ECSS standards.

Features:

• ECLIPSE supports the following activities:
• Document Management
• Configuration Management
• Action Management
• Risk Management
• Non-Conformance Management
• Quality Assurance
• Product Assurance
• Project Management
• Knowledge Management
• Technology Management