Technical publications solution

Technical publications software

Expedite your technical publishing process and ensure more accurate, effective and compliant technical documentation no matter how complex your products are. Unleash more business value for yourself and your customers.

Why use technical publication software?

Technical documentation is essential for every manufactured product as it provides critical information for assembly, use and service. It is also a legal requirement because it ensures compliance with safety, regulatory and industry standards. However, the technical publishing process is often a daunting task and only grows in complexity as the products are becoming increasingly complex themselves.

To overcome these challenges, invest in a technical publishing solution that enables your teams to author and publish accurate, effective, and compliant technical documentation faster and more efficiently. Integrated with a product lifecycle management (PLM) backbone, it enables your tech pubs authors to participate alongside engineering, manufacturing, and service lifecycles leveraging a digital thread so that technical publishing can be done concurrently with product development.

How do you author and publish more accurate, effective, and compliant technical documentation of your products, faster, while ensuring more business value for yourself and your customers?

Implement an integrated solution that will help you achieve documentation quality and process efficiency, while reducing time, cost and effort.

What can technical publication software do for you?

Technical publishing solution empowers you to author and publish various product documents with efficiency and ease. It supports version control, collaborative authoring, workflow automation, and integration with PLM systems, ensuring accurate, up-to-date content aligned with product data.

Integrate

Connect your solution with other key systems to ensure visibility of engineering data and changes for better coordination and synchronization of products and the corresponding technical documentation.

Collaborate

Enable collaboration between teams so that technical publishing is done in sequence. This ensures a more simplified and efficient process, leading to significant time and cost savings.

Differentiate

Leverage the most comprehensive digital twin to create interactive and immersive technical documentation resulting in a differentiated experience for the end-users.

Realize

Foster stronger partnerships and derive greater value for your customers and your business, especially when providing performance-based service contracts.

Overcome technical publishing challenges

Create, manage and deliver product documents and technical publications for all stakeholders – from engineering to marketing, manufacturing, service and support. View our professional solutions created to help you overcome challenges with technical publishing.

RapidAuthor for Teamcenter
An authoring and illustrating application allowing users to access and use 3D CAD models, assemblies and metadata directly from the PLM system to streamline the creation of technical documentation.

Teamcenter Content Management
A centralized platform within a PLM system for technical documentation management or component content management.

Teamcenter Content Management S1000D
A centralized platform within a PLM system for technical documentation management or component content management, for Aerospace & Defense industry.

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Top PLM software leadership recognition

Teamcenter is recognized by Forrester Research as a leader in PLM. Teamcenter received the highest possible scores in more criteria than any other evaluated vendor in The Forrester Wave™: Product Lifecycle Management for Discrete Manufacturers, Q1 2023 report.

What PLM solution is best for you?

G2 ranks products based on customer reviews. G2 named Teamcenter the best PLM software for any size company - outperforming 99 others. Take a look at the PLM software comparison grid to see the top ranking on Teamcenter.

I have worked in technical publication for 20 years, and our progress is absolutely phenomenal... With Teamcenter generating accurate content and RapidAuthor for visualization, we dramatically cut our preparation and research time. It has taken 50 percent less time to produce manuals, at significantly lower cost than previously, and we met our target to provide publications six months before the trains enter operation.

John Straw, Technical Publication Manager, Siemens Mobility

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Frequently asked questions

What is technical publishing software?

An integrated technical publishing solution within a PLM system enables efficient and rapid authoring and publishing of accurate, effective, and compliant technical documentation. This solution supports various product documents, including spare parts catalogs, work instructions, manuals, and training materials. It accommodates a wide range of formats, multiple languages, and new media. Furthermore, it effectively manages growing product variants and frequent product changes, ensuring comprehensive, clear, and user-friendly documentation for all audiences and use cases.

Why should my company adopt a technical publishing software solution?

Technical documentation is a critical business component, essential for helping users understand, install, operate, maintain, and service products. This documentation must be adapted for diverse audiences, including end-users, expert technicians, and novice service personnel, all with varying levels of technical expertise. Furthermore, as products are distributed globally, technical documentation must be available in the local languages of customers. This presents a significant challenge, especially with increasing product complexity and shorter development cycles, which make authoring and publishing even more intricate. To successfully navigate these complexities, investing in an integrated technical publishing solution that enables a holistic approach to documentation is crucial.

How does technical publishing software streamline the publication process?

Integrated within a PLM solution, a technical publishing solution offers a differentiated experience by making data and product visualizations easily accessible to all stakeholders. This integration allows your technical publications teams to work concurrently with product development, rather than sequentially, which is often the traditional approach. This streamlined process ensures that changes are identified and managed early, preventing timeline compromises. Ultimately, this significantly contributes to time savings and improves the overall quality of your documentation.

How do I choose the best technical publishing software for my needs?

By leveraging a comprehensive digital twin of the product, technical publications authors can ensure their documentation is always based on the latest and most accurate information. This also enables them to create interactive and immersive technical documentation, which enhances end-user comprehension and improves the ability to troubleshoot or understand complex technical details more effectively. Consequently, this streamlines maintenance and support activities. This digital twin guarantees complete accuracy of your product data and illustrations, and facilitates the creation of both traditional and highly interactive content for more effective communication and a superior end-user experience.