Technical writers and catalog creators have more important things to do than engage in the tedious process of consolidating data from all manner of different sources. A digital system allows you to merge data as well as to create and publish spare parts catalogs much more efficiently.
Nobody who has to create a catalog in the machinery and plant construction sector has it easy. Technical writing is not regarded as a profit center, but rather as a department that drains the coffers instead. The catalog creators themselves are under enormous time pressure, just one of the many challenges they face.
Catalogs that are created and published under these conditions also tend to make life more difficult for customers and service technicians:
Service business – and the sale of spare parts in particular – has become an important sales drivers for manufacturers. An up-to-date spare parts catalog – including “As-built” and “As-maintained” information plus material numbers for each spare part – is essential to allow customers and technicians to find and order the parts they need.
If the Technical Writing department is able to network monetizable information intelligently as well as optimize the creation and publication of catalogs, this will help to significantly increase sales in plant engineering and construction.
Sentence inconvenient analog processes to the past where they belong. A spare parts catalog system allows you to create catalogs in a fraction of the time and publish them seamlessly on different channels.
Efficient data management helps to solve the challenges facing technical writers and catalog creators. It creates a continuous flow of data, from the collection of information for catalogs and their creation to media-independent publication and beyond.
Machine and plant manufacturers respond to these challenges by using software for interactive spare parts catalogs. Catalog software interconnects with the existing systems in a company, which drastically reduces sources of error as well as the effort required to generate spare parts documentation.
Existing company data does not have to be painstakingly collected, but flows into the spare parts documentation automatically or via manual import. Adjustments to layout or content are possible at any time and without programming knowledge.
Even 3D data can be used, making spare parts catalogs even more intuitive.
Are you keen to create, publish, translate, and update your spare parts catalogs with minimal outlay and effort? Quanos SIS.one allows you to accomplish all this and more in a single software application.
Facts about the Quanos SIS.one digital catalog system:
The Technical Writing department is more than just a collection point for data. Quanos SIS.one leverages the potential for efficiency that lies dormant there and enables faster processes at low costs, keeping technical writers, manufacturers, technicians, and operators happy.
What does creating spare parts catalogs from a central data pool and publishing them in all media involve in practical terms?
Use Quanos SIS.one to create machine, customer, and user-specific catalogs in every language. Integrated tools for the automated or manual preparation and optimization of data will assist you with this.
The data comes from ERP, CCMS, DMS, PIM, CAD, CAE, or logistics systems and is linked bidirectionally in Quanos SIS.one – data silos are a thing of the past. Mechanisms such as encryption or defamiliarization of 3D visualizations protect your intellectual property against unauthorized access.
Quality assurance also ensures that only high-quality catalogs are published, and the WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get) allows you to create catalog layouts in your corporate design.
A fully automated publication process in Quanos SIS.one allows single-source publishing – use all data from a single source for all media. Publish catalogs online, offline or, depending on the application, as a print version. Automated, semi-automated, or manual updates ensure that your catalogs are always up to date.
Even after publication, Quanos SIS.one gives you full control and data sovereignty over your catalogs. The on-premise solution ensures availability and access to your catalog at all times.
Quanos SIS.one increases your efficiency and sales. It also forms the basis for digitalizing your aftersales and service. Add further content such as technical documentation, circuit diagrams, hydraulic diagrams, videos, or images to turn your interactive spare parts catalog into a comprehensive service information system. It intelligently links content with spare parts information and creates an important source of data for users. The Technical Writing department makes a valuable contribution to this.
What used to take you weeks will now take just minutes with Quanos SIS.one. Create and publish spare parts catalogs efficiently, and save paper, time, and costs.
Would you like to know what a finished digital spare parts catalog made with Quanos SIS.one looks like? Get to know the software now without obligation.
