For many companies, the introduction of a component content management system (CCMS) is the ideal solution to meet the increased requirements in the editorial process. However, the associated changes are often met with resistance from the employees concerned. They have to give up old habits, acquire new skills or familiarize themselves with new roles and tasks. This [...]
Did you know what an important role technical writers play when it comes to topics such as automation and artificial intelligence? Do you happen to know what pre-editing means? If not (yet), why not give yourself a little break and read this article? What does "pre-editing" actually mean? The entire process of machine translation (MT for short) includes [...]
gds GmbH presented two products to an interested audience at the tecteam System Day on April 30, 2021. The easybrowse easybrowse content delivery portal Jan Grüter first presented easybrowse in the "Customer" role and user view. He showed how a machine technician uses easybrowse in the browser or with the easybrowse app to rectify a fault on a spray lubrication machine. This was followed [...]
Since 1998, Emil Kubica has seen many changes in the training of technical editors. Now what is probably the last change for him professionally has taken place; he has been in well-deserved retirement since the beginning of February. For him privately, it will certainly be more of a restless retirement: "Now it's time to tinker and do DIY. It will be boring [...]
A fundamental issue when creating instructions for use is defining the target groups. Only when it is clear who is supposed to do what with a product can target-oriented instructions be created. Instructions for everyday products such as a coffee machine or a cell phone must inform users about everything they need to know to use, maintain and [...].
The Dortmund Chamber of Industry and Commerce is supplementing its consulting services for companies with a consultation day on CE marking. The experts from tecteam GmbH and EMC Test NRW GmbH answer questions on the application of directives and standards in the CE process and the importance of risk analysis for conformity assessment. The event kicked off on February 17, 2021, and the next consultation day will take place on [...]
What is the core of terminology work? How does terminology work, what is the point of it all? And finally: What does this have to do with awareness? Warming up and warming up for terminology Shortly before Christmas 2020, I was given the opportunity to present a one-hour introduction to terminology for RWTH Aachen University in an online guest lecture. The audience was [...]
As a result of the coronavirus crisis, most companies sent their employees to work from home. Many of them returned to video conferencing shortly afterwards - they met "face to face" via Zoom Cloud Meetings, Microsoft Teams or GoToWebinar to clarify important matters without having to leave their own four walls. [...]
Date of issue: December 2020 DIN EN ISO 16972: Respiratory protective devices - Terms and graphic symbols This international standard lists terms and graphic symbols for respiratory protective devices. It replaces the European standard EN 132. The standard is available in German and English. DIN EN ISO 7010/A1: Graphical symbols - Safety colors and safety signs - Registered safety signs [...]
There are many ways to become a technical editor, including virtual ones. I found my way to becoming a technical editor through further training that did not take the form of classroom teaching, but - apart from the internship - took place exclusively online. The Internet makes it possible! Each participant in the course was equipped with a computer at a location of their training provider [...]
