Two views on in-service training Here, Anja Schiel, trainee at parson AG, and Ulrike Parson, CEO at parson, report on their view of the traineeship for technical writing. parson AG is a service provider for technical communication and documentation technology in Hamburg and Berlin. From the perspective of trainee Anja Schiel, [...]
Are you already familiar with our new training courses? On the one hand, we offer the "Basic package for newcomers and career changers in technical documentation", a kind of crash course for the typical basic activities of a technical writer. On the other hand, the topic of mobile technical documentation is becoming increasingly important. You should therefore attend the seminar "Mobile Technical Documentation [...]
Issue date: February 2018 DIN EN 13306: Maintenance - Maintenance terms DIN EN 13306 has been available since this month. The standard deals with the definition of terms for the maintenance of all types of objects. Software is excluded, unless the software is part of an object. The standard is interesting for [...]
Smart - intelligent solutions - digitalization - Industry 4.0 - there is hardly an article - whether on the Internet or in print - that does not contain these terms in the headline. If products are called "smart" - e.g. smart home, smart metering, smartphone - are they automatically intelligent products? Do you need [...]
Was bedeutet diese neue Norm für unsere Arbeit und wie gehen wir damit um? Mit dem Ausgabedatum 02-2018 ist - neben der bereits bekannten DIN EN 82079-1 ein Entwurf einer neuen Norm im Bereich der Technischen Dokumentation erschienen. Diese Norm wird für viele Redakteurinnen und Redakteure in Zukunft relevant. Da ich mich bei tecteam [...]
In discussions with technical writers and e-learning managers responsible for documentation, we are repeatedly asked how we see the future development of technical documentation due to the moving and audio media that are now available virtually everywhere. Can mobile or multimedia documentation replace the printed form? What added value does such documentation have? These and [...]
As regular readers may have noticed, there hasn't been much news in the world of standards for a long time. With the start of the new year, however, we are once again coming across one or two standards that are worth mentioning. Showers with a difference DIN EN 62947 (VDE0705-2947) seems interesting here. This standard deals with "Toilet seats with electric [...]
tekom, the German professional association for technical communication, has been offering the option of certification as a technical writer since 2003. Since then, the basis for this certification has been formed by qualification modules that reflect typical areas of competence in the job profile of technical writers. However, the job profile of technical writers is constantly changing and expanding. The new cross-industry competence framework of tekom, which [...]
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Date of issue: January 2018 DIN EN ISO 20607: Safety of machinery - Instruction handbooks - General principles for design DIN EN ISO 20607 has been available as a draft since this month. The standard deals with requirements for the design of operating instructions for machinery. These requirements are a supplement to chapter 6.4 of DIN EN ISO 12100, in [...]
