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Quality products require quality documentation – parts catalogs, training guides, operations, and repair manuals. Global markets and industry specifications like S1000D and DITA are defining new technical publication standards for document organization, localized translations, and product-specific content. It all adds up to longer document development cycles, and the need for structured content management.
Teamcenter® Content Management provides topic and data module management and a dynamic publishing environment within product lifecycle management (PLM). Technical writers and illustrators can see XML text and graphics linked to the product content, and can participate in engineering change workflows. You can automate the assembly and publishing of product or service documentation in multiple languages and formats, specific to your product configurations. Integrated XML authoring and publishing applications create draft content and graphics for writers and illustrators, then content is automatically updated with engineering changes. Structured content management delivers quality publications, and faster time to market.
Quality products require quality documentation – parts catalogs, training guides, operations, and repair manuals. Global markets and industry specifications like S1000D and DITA are defining new technical publication standards for document organization, localized translations, and product-specific content. It all adds up to longer document development cycles, and the need for structured content management.
Teamcenter® Content Management provides topic and data module management and a dynamic publishing environment within product lifecycle management (PLM). Technical writers and illustrators can see XML text and graphics linked to the product content, and can participate in engineering change workflows. You can automate the assembly and publishing of product or service documentation in multiple languages and formats, specific to your product configurations. Integrated XML authoring and publishing applications create draft content and graphics for writers and illustrators, then content is automatically updated with engineering changes. Structured content management delivers quality publications, and faster time to market.
Highly descriptive technical publications can be very profitable, especially when they help manufacturing and service teams be more productive. RapidAuthor for Teamcenter extends your investment in engineering design data by reusing that content directly in technical documentation. CAD and PLM XML content is converted directly to text and 2D/3D graphics and animations, to give people a better sense of how products work and what decisions need to be made to manufacture and service them.
With Teamcenter technical publications software, you can keep your parts catalogs, work instructions, and learning content aligned with product configurations and design changes to reduce the time and cost of documentation while improving quality and delivery. Technical writers can manage document structures using document classification and variants. Illustrators can create illustrations, and applicable graphic options are created and managed automatically to support multiple media outputs.
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) enables the reuse of XML topics between documents, while PI-Mode provides reusable topics optimized for plant constructions and mechanical engineering. Teamcenter provides DITA and Pi-Mod stylesheets for automatic formatting of XML content for both HTML and PDF output. From an intuitive user interface optimized for technical writers, you can manage XML components, reuse them between documents, and classify them by product configuration for inclusion in other publications.
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