Einen Hinweis vorweg: Dieser Text ist nicht als verbindliche Rechtsauskunft zu verstehen, sondern enthält die persönliche Meinung des Autors, basierend auf recherchierten Urteilen und Gesetzen zum Thema. Was bedeutet der Begriff „Disclaimer“? Der Begriff „Disclaimer“ ist die Substantivierung des englischen „to disclaim“, zu deutsch „abstreiten“, „nicht anerkennen“. Man findet Disclaimer oft im Impressum [...]
Die Technische Dokumentation erfordert nicht nur Fachwissen, sondern auch viel Kreativität, wie sonst können Lösungen im hektischen Redaktionsalltag gefunden werden? Wir öffnen heute die Tür zu einer privaten Poesie-Werkstatt einer Redakteurin, die, wie sie uns verriet, „abends mit Unsinn am besten entspannen kann“. Viel Spaß! Informationsgedicht von einer der Redaktion bekannten Technischen Redakteurin [...]
Importance of technical illustration In the age of 3D CAD, there are more and more possibilities for creating visualizations for technical documentation, which makes it more difficult for classic technical illustration to assert itself. The importance of illustrations in technical documentation should be known to everyone by now, but the understanding and [...]
System Day at tecteam again This time, Mr. Drache from SCHEMA (www.schema.de) and Mr. Weih from Across (www.across.net) demonstrated the interaction between content management systems (CMS) and translation management systems (TMS). The interested guests came from Bochum, Bocholt and Cologne, among other places, and one person even traveled from near Stuttgart for this event. Admittedly - the time [...]
In my 7 years in the field of technical editing, especially at the tecteam Bildungsinstitut (as a student assistant, trainee, student), I have gotten to know many people and inevitably learned something about their path into technical editing. As different and varied as the paths into technical editing are, so are the people who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...].
