China - Part 2 - Visit to Huawei and Mindray

As already reported in the blog, our Managing Director Herbert Herzke visited the cities of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong on the occasion of the tcworld China Conference 2016. A visit to the companies Huawei and Mindray in Shenzhen was also on the agenda. Here, contact with the documentation departments was intensified. Training and further education opportunities for Chinese employees were also [...]

First system day at tecteam

The first System Day@tecteam took place at the end of June in Dortmund, where several interested participants from near and far were able to experience how a content management system (CMS) and a translation management system (TMS) can be used along the typical process in technical editing. After a brief introduction, docufy, as the CMS manufacturer, showed why [...]

2025-09-26T15:16:11+02:0022.07.2016|Kategorien: General|Tags: , , , , , Studio|0 Comments

A trip to Shanghai

Our Managing Director, Herbert Herzke, traveled to Shanghai in April 2016 for the tcworld China 2016 Conference. A long journey for a conference, you might think. But the opportunity to gain insights into working methods and approaches to technical documentation that differ in some respects from European or American standards was worth the trip alone. [...]

2020-08-27T11:05:56+02:0018.07.2016|Kategorien: Allgemein|Tags: , , , , , |0 Kommentare

Our customer day 2016

Our annual customer day took place on Tuesday, 26.06.2016 and has become a tradition. We spent an entertaining day here at Phoenix-West with numerous customers, friends and employees. The aim of the Customer Day is to exchange experiences with and among each other, to further educate ourselves and, of course, to deepen business relationships. After the guests "rolled in", there were [...]

Technical communication on the way to digital industrialization 4.0

Digital industrialization is characterized by the strong adaptation of products under the conditions of highly flexible production. The necessary automation technology should become more intelligent through the introduction of self-optimization, self-configuration and self-diagnosis processes and provide better support for people in their increasingly complex tasks. In future, information such as status information, descriptions or instructions will play an important role alongside the actual product function [...].

2025-09-17T11:36:22+02:0015.03.2016|Kategorien: General, Technical Communication|Tags: , , , Things|0 Comments

Automation options in the field of technical documentation

Be it the topic of Industry 4.0, the improvement of service friendliness or general competitive pressure - technical documentation is becoming increasingly important. Companies need to create procedures and processes that enable them to produce, translate and distribute data on a large scale and do so in a qualitative, cost-effective and reliable manner. On the one hand, [...]

2025-09-17T11:32:21+02:0010.03.2016|Kategorien: General|Tags: , , , , , , Trados|0 Comments

Good resolutions for the new year

It's that time of year again, a new year begins. And just as certain as the turn of the year is the annual habit of making New Year's resolutions. In principle, this is a good thing: over the holidays, people also use the time to reflect and talk to friends and relatives about all sorts of things. More sport, less [...]

2025-09-10T13:36:08+02:0006.01.2016|Kategorien: General|Tags: , , , , , , education|0 Comments

Pickling salmon with tecteam

Some time ago, there was a sophisticated but commercially unsuccessful movie "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen". In contrast, the "salmon pickling at tecteam" is a great success and has been growing in popularity for several years. You could call it a tradition when Managing Director Herbert Herzke brings large containers of salmon, salt, sugar and spices to [...]

ANSI Z535.6 ...

... oder was muss ich beachten, um „europäische“ Anleitungen für den US-Markt tauglich zu machen Die ANSI Z535.6 schlägt ein Regelwerk für die systematische graphische Gestaltung von Sicherheits- und Warnhinweisen in der technischen Dokumentation für den US-Markt vor. Das Werk hat normativen Charakter („The Z535 Commitee recognises that this information [communicating safety and accident [...]

2025-09-10T13:27:40+02:0015.12.2015|Kategorien: General, Technical Communication|Tags: , , , US 2 Comments

Rechtlicher Stand der Technischen Dokumentation in China

Viele europäische Hersteller liefern ihre Produkte mittlerweile nach China, wobei der Handel häufig einen erheblichen Teil des Geschäftes ausmacht. Auch wenn die Frage der Technischen Dokumentation nicht im Vordergrund steht, so tauchen dennoch immer wieder Fragen auf, z. B.: Was versteht man in China unter Technischer Dokumentation? Ist überhaupt eine Technische Dokumentation in Form einer [...]

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