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 [...]
A note in advance: This text is not to be understood as binding legal information, but contains the personal opinion of the authors, formed on the basis of researched standards. We do not consider the content and wording of warnings in this blog post. There are two specific reasons for this blog post. One was a few years ago, [...].
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 [...]
Elif Jäger How and when did you join tecteam? In a nutshell: Internship, traineeship, permanent position. During my studies (M.A. German Linguistics, English Studies, Social Psychology), I worked as a student assistant at the educational institute from 2002 onwards, doing a lot of research and supporting the development of the telecourses, among other things. The insights I gained into the profession [...]
Weltweit können Millionen Menschen weder lesen noch schreiben – und auch in Deutschland ist Alphabetisierung ein Thema. Vielen ist nicht bekannt, dass (laut Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) rund 14 Prozent der erwerbsfähigen Deutschen funktionale Analphabeten sind. Das bedeutet, dass sie zwar einzelne Sätze lesen und schreiben, nicht jedoch zusammenhängende Texte verstehen können. [...]
Issue date: November 2017 VDI 4500-6: Technical documentation - Documentation process - Publishing VDI Guideline 4500-6 has been available as a draft since this month. The guideline looks at the entire publication process within technical documentation. To this end, the guideline deals with the management of content, the production, management and distribution of the publication through to archiving [...].
