Improve structured authoring with Arbortext
75% increase in writer efficiency
65% increase in first time fix rates
25% increase in parts revenue
$1M decrease of translation costs
15% decrease of unplanned downtime
Blumberg Advisory Group: Strategic Market Assessment
This assessment report outlines effective strategies for delivering service intelligence efficiently and accurately. Manufacturers and service organizations face increasing challenges from product complexity, data volume, regulatory demands, and rising customer expectations. There is a pressing need for improved management of the ever-evolving service information requirements.
Read the Blumberg Advisory Group report to discover the essential attributes to consider when evaluating this market and choosing the right vendor to fit your specific needs.
Arbortext for technical publications and parts catalog
The end-to-end capability and digital thread intelligence of the Arbortext/PTC Windchill combination provides organizations with a new certainty and simplicity of managing the complex content and business needs required to serve international manufacturers.
Make it simple. Make it smart.
PTC Arbortext differentiator: Digital thread
What is the Digital Thread?
Digital threads seek to create homogeneity and simple universal access to data. They follow a single set of related data as it weaves in and out of business processes and functions to create a continuity and accessibility.
With Arbortext you can create a single flow of data and resources that will enable the linking of content all the way out to someone in the field.
Ensure end-to-end data consistent with digital thread
Create
- Automatically update content in conjunction with product development changes and stay connected to engineering data
- Reuse and leverage content with XML authoring
- Support effective translation management
- Enable efficient cross-teams collaboration on content
- Achieve more efficient task assignment, routing, and authoring collaboration
Manage
- Manage technical content originating from multiple sources
- Be included in the change process when content needs updating
- Leverage CAD and facility information for quicker delivery and content development
- Enable a more efficient review process
- Reduce manual workflows and non-value-added tasks
Deliver
- Cost-effectively deliver up-to-date documentation to customers and service personnel
- Reduce operational costs of service information delivery
- Use automated publishing to reduce labor costs and the need for multiple manual applications
- Enable engineering changes to be more efficiently integrated into product information to maintain up-to-date publications
Success stories from our customers
Digital logistics for in-service operations in Aerospace and Defense
Digital Thread for paperless logistics connecting engineering with integrated logistics support (ILS), technical documentation and Service Operations.
Digital Thread for paperless logistics connecting engineering with integrated logistics support (ILS), technical documentation and Service Operations.
Explicit and implicit linking of service content to product design
The Digital Thread can improve the connection from design to service content, regardless if your organization uses explicit or implicit linking.
The Digital Thread can improve the connection from design to service content, regardless if your organization uses explicit or implicit linking.
Product brochure: Make it Simple, Make it Smart
Arbortext for Technical Publications and Parts Catalog provides an overview of all products from Create, Manage, and Deliver to illustrate the full scope of our end-to-end, dynamic publishing solution
Arbortext products
Explore these videos, data sheets, and release announcements to learn more about our solutions for real-time validation, automatic publishing, task-based graphical content, streamlined change management, and more.
Arbortext Web Editor and Web Reviewer
Capture valuable input from all participants across your content ecosystem to produce the best possible product and service information for your consumers.
Arbortext Editor
Enable the authoring of structured content with real-time validation.
Arbortext Styler
An innovative stylesheet tool that enables designers to configure stylesheets for automatic publishing of structured content.
Arbortext IsoDraw
Produce high-quality illustrations and animations rapidly with real-time CAD data.
Creo Illustrate
Couples data to deliver task-based graphical content specific to product configurations, supporting formats from hard copy to augmented reality.
Arbortext Layout Developer and Layout Editor
Automate the publishing of layout-intensive documents with professional, high-quality output.
Windchill Service Parts Information and Instructions
Manage content-specific service information to facilitate information reuse, streamline change management, and enable delivery of configuration-based technical publications.
Arbortext Publishing Engine
A server-based system that manages content flow and delivers high-quality, consistent product and service information throughout the product lifecycle.
Arbortext Content Delivery
Access updated, configuration-specific documents and parts information for your users.
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Customer success with Arbortext
Learn now these companies are using Arbortext to improve productivity and product information delivery.
Kirloskar Oil Engines
Design for serviceability: Improving technician effectiveness and service performance at Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited
KOEL
KOEL improved productivity and reduced requests for cancellations of late-stage engineering changes from 10% to 2% by using PTC solutions to complete a BOM transformation.
TORO
Toro uses Creo Illustrate to increase illustrator efficiency, end-user comprehension
U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy is undergoing digital transformation to unify legacy systems and support their massive base of users, suppliers, and ships by using Windchill’s cloud infrastructure, collaboration capabilities, and comprehensive SaaS workflows.
Ronchi Packaging Machinery
Ronchi provides outstanding customer service through an end-to-end digital transformation featuring the Arbortext content delivery system.
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