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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
... 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 [...]
Many European manufacturers now supply their products to China, with trade often accounting for a significant portion of their business. Even if the issue of technical documentation is not a priority, questions still arise time and again, such as: What is meant by technical documentation in China? Is technical documentation in the form of a [...]
Are you still writing or are you already typing? ... asked the FAZ in an article from 14.01.2015 about new curricula for Finnish elementary school. Minna Hermann, who drew up the guidelines at the Finnish Ministry of Education, is of the opinion that it is so difficult for many children to write individual letters on paper by hand [...]
Good editing tools are not always easy to find, and sometimes you have to look in a different niche. That's why I didn't find what I was looking for on the hardware side with Office products, but with so-called "gamer toys". As a technical editor, I always try to use the right tools to optimize my day-to-day work. On the software side, I use tools such as [...]
