In aerospace and defense maintenance, structured technical documentation is essential for keeping complex systems safe, operational, and maintainable over their full lifecycle. As experienced engineers retire, many organizations face a growing skills gap, making it increasingly important to deliver accurate maintenance information to technicians at the right moment.
At ILA Berlin 2026, NINEFEB introduced a digital maintenance support approach that combines technical documentation, international standards, artificial intelligence, and a trusted semantic layer. The company works in technical documentation for aerospace and defense, creating maintenance information and manuals that help keep systems in service.
The company highlighted the use of international standards such as S1000D for technical documentation, S2000M for material management, S3000L for lifecycle management, and S6000T for training. By combining these information standards with AI, NINEFEB aims to support maintenance teams when they face practical problems in the field.
The presentation also referred to the generation of virtual reality models from S1000D documentation. This indicates a shift from conventional training processes toward more interactive, data-driven maintenance training, particularly for aerospace, defense, MRO, and technical education environments.
NINEFEB presented a maintenance support approach for aerospace and defense that combines technical documentation, AI, a trusted semantic layer, and international standards such as S1000D and S2000M.
The company referred to S1000D for technical documentation, S2000M for material management, S3000L for lifecycle management, and S6000T for training.
AI is combined with structured documentation and material management information to help maintenance technicians access the right information at the right time when solving maintenance issues.
Hello and konnichiwa.My name is Harold Startlebower.I’m CEO and owner of the Ninefeb Group of companies.Ninefeb consists of three companies.The headquarter is in Vienna, Austria.The other one is actually in the UK in Manchester.And what are we doing actually?We are engaged in technical documentation.We are preparing all these kinds of maintenance information and maintenance manuals to keep systems alive and safe.We are doing that for defense.We are doing that for aviation and aerospace.We are relying on international standards like the S1000D, the S2000M for material management, and the S 3000L for life cycle considerations.Nonetheless, we are heavily engaged in the development of the standard S6,000T for training.Why is this important?These are international standards and it is important because we are running into a kind of skill gap situation due to the retirement of the baby boomers.Now with the skill gap actually nobody will be able then to maintain the machines.Training processes as you know them are not working any longer.So we have to find new ways and that’s what we are actually doing.We are combining artificial intelligence with a trusted semantic layer with the S1000D documentation and the S2000 material management informationto give the maintenance technician the right information at the right time if he’s standing in front of a problem he has to resolve.Now, if you’re interested actually to take a look,if you’re interested to see what we are doing with all this information, deriving virtual reality models out of S1000D documentation,then there is an easy way to get in touch with me.This is my website www.ninefeb.comI’d be happy to get in touch.



















