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Product documentation is very essential information for every manufacturer through which knowledge is effectively transferred across the stakeholders. For example, while assembling or servicing the parts there are steps to be followed by the operator to guide the user that, he has assembled or serviced the product by taking necessary measures or precautions set as a standard either by the company or the government agencies. Irrespective of the product complexity, the product documentation plays vital role and also the entire documentation prepared for various reasons within the company to be effectively managed & published and also maintained to-date. All the documents to be accessed by globally and the document must have latest product information. Which means at any point of time the document is up-to-date with necessary product information. There are multiple stages in the document and publishing system which has to be collectively handled by single platform; to resolve all the issues in managing and publishing the documents. Those stages are AUTHOR (creating detailed information), ILLUSTRATE, MANAGE & DELIVER.
Successful companies today are those that have a product development solution in place that can effectively manage product complexity and variability. Most of the manufacturing companies look for the tool which would have following five critical capabilities:
- To Create detailed digital product information
- To Collaborate with distributed project teams, customers, suppliers, and partners
- To Control content and automate processes
- To Configure content to match products and services
- To Communicate with people and other business applications
ITC Infotech as part of their Technical Publication Solution services offering provides Arbort text as a solution. It enables companies to collaboratively author, manage, publish and dynamically deliver personalized publications from a single-content source. It enables mechanical, electronic and software design content to be associated with images, textual and tabular data to create a rich, interactive set of documentation that automatically updates when product changes occur. It addresses all aspects of publishing product information, removing organizational barriers, increasing publication authoring, and updating productivity, thus reducing translation costs and automatically delivering personalized content in a variety of media formats.
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