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News Release from: Engineering Adventures | Subject: Electronic manuals
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2000
Build your own electronic manual
Electronic manuals can be more effective than traditional paper manuals and cost less to produce.
Electronic manuals can be more effective than traditional paper manuals and cost less to produce Engineering Adventures has developed a powerful new program framework that allows companies to very easily build their own electronic manuals
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 May 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Traditional paper manuals can be very time consuming and expensive to produce.
Writing long technical descriptions on how to build or test equipment can be very difficult and does not always provide the easiest way for maintenance engineers to find out how that machine works.
Advances in technology, however, mean that companies can now take simple pictures or video clips to show how their machines are assembled.
These can very easily be saved onto CD-ROMs within a directory structure that allows the user to quickly search for the demonstrations they require.
The resulting manual allows the engineer who builds the equipment to demonstrate clearly how it should be done.
This peer group to peer group training is much more effective than someone else trying to explain the technique in a large written manual.
Also, using a recorded soundtrack makes it much easier to produce and operate.
The finished product can be delivered by CD-ROM, Intranet or sometimes the Internet.
This removes the need for bulky paper files and means that several manuals can easily be carried in a briefcase if you have to travel.
The new 'eLibrary' system developed by Engineering Adventures is very easy to use.
It allows companies to combine picture, video, text and sound files along with any Power Point, Adobe, *.exe or web site information they may have.
The person building the manual only needs to save the information into their required directory structure and the program does the rest.
Absolutely no programming is required.
A fully working copy of the program can be downloaded from the Engineering Adventures web site at www.engineeringweb.co.uk.
This program will allow you to enter your own information and if you have a basic knowledge of computer media files it should allow you to produce your own manual in a matter of hours.
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