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Highly descriptive technical publications can be very profitable, especially when they give people a better sense of how products work and what decisions need to be made to manufacture and service them more efficiently.
With RapidAuthor for Teamcenter®, product specific interactive technical publications are easy to create from your engineering design data. Computer-aided design (CAD) and PLM XML content is converted directly to text and 2D/3D graphics and animation, and linked together automatically for interactive visual content. Graphic illustrations are linked to parts tables, animations are linked to assembly, disassembly, and training tasks, which makes both traditional PDF, 3D PDF and HTML/HTML5 technical publications accurate and highly effective. You can publish previews automatically and output your interactive visual content to a variety of formats including PDF, 3D PDF and HTML5. When the product design changes, you can view the differences and choose which updates to apply quickly and easily. With this direct reuse, document tasks that traditionally took two months can be accomplished in as little as two days.
Highly descriptive technical publications can be very profitable, especially when they give people a better sense of how products work and what decisions need to be made to manufacture and service them more efficiently.
With RapidAuthor for Teamcenter®, product specific interactive technical publications are easy to create from your engineering design data. Computer-aided design (CAD) and PLM XML content is converted directly to text and 2D/3D graphics and animation, and linked together automatically for interactive visual content. Graphic illustrations are linked to parts tables, animations are linked to assembly, disassembly, and training tasks, which makes both traditional PDF, 3D PDF and HTML/HTML5 technical publications accurate and highly effective. You can publish previews automatically and output your interactive visual content to a variety of formats including PDF, 3D PDF and HTML5. When the product design changes, you can view the differences and choose which updates to apply quickly and easily. With this direct reuse, document tasks that traditionally took two months can be accomplished in as little as two days.
For all the documentation you produce -- parts catalogs, work instructions, and learning content – RapidAuthor delivers interactive content associated with product designs and up-to-date with changes to reduce the time and cost of documentation while improving quality and delivery. Text content is converted from engineering data to XML content compliant with your industry or company standards, including DITA and S1000D, then output to match your company formats in PDF, 3D PDF, and HTML or HTML5.
Parts catalogs can be created from CAD data or the Teamcenter bill of materials (BOM) using the RapidAuthor catalog editor. Parts tables are automatically generated to match the assemblies and sub-assemblies for each page, with each part in the table automatically linked to that part in the 2D and 3D interactive graphics. Parts catalogs can be translated into multiple languages for localization, and viewed in PDF, HTML, or using the viewer on a variety of devices.
Work instructions must contain the specific part and task information for the products they describe – or downtime and resulting support costs increase. RapidAuthor uses information from either CAD files or Teamcenter Services Planner or Manufacturing Process Planner bill of process (BOP) to create content using the specific parts and steps needed for each. Technicians can walk through with steps and animation or graphics in 2D and 3D PDF or HTML/HTML5 documents.
JT and PLM XML from CAD and BOM data can also be used to generate training exercises. Authors can disassemble the 3D content directly in the RapidAuthor visual environment and training exercise tasks are generated in text as a result, complete with part numbers and links to the illustrations and animations. Trainees can either view the 2D or 3D PDF, HTML or HTML5 content, or click through each step via graphic or text.
Using CAD and PLM XML content, DITA and S1000D content can be generated automatically in all your technical publications. RapidAuthor works with Teamcenter Content Management, Teamcenter Service Planner, and Teamcenter Manufacturing Process Planner. Using JT, CAD data, and PLM XML from the bill of materials (BOM) and processes, you can reuse content already managed in your PLM environment to create and update text and graphics concurrently. The result is highly-effective interactive technical publications for your customers.
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