Building a Semantic Search Application for the Navy's Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual
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cckolon
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Summary
The article describes a personal project to build a semantic search application for the Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual (JFMM), a 3,470-page Navy quality assurance document. The author, a former Navy QA officer, shares their experience with submarine quality assurance and explains the challenges of navigating the complex JFMM. The article details the technical implementation of creating a searchable web app using modern tools like Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI embeddings to make the dense technical manual more accessible and useful for Navy personnel.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWeighing in at 3470 pages, the JFMM is not light reading.
The Navy's QA governing instruction is a book called the Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual, or JFMM (pronounced 'Jiff-m').
During my last couple years in the Navy, I became intimately familiar with submarine quality assurance (QA).
QA forms are used to create Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) when required by...
I went to QA school and became the QA officer (QAO) of PCU New Jersey.
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