3D Technical Publications
Advanced Technical Publications Solutions
Anark’s 3D Technical Publication Solutions provide the foundation for production and delivery of next generation interactive technical publications. These advanced solutions decrease document production time, increase document effectiveness, drive aftermarket product revenues, and solidify customer product loyalty.
The Industry Problem:
- High cost of technical publications: Traditional technical publications require extensive manual authoring, publishing, and content management. This process is labor intensive, costly, and delays time to market.
- High Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Inefficient technical publications play a significant factor in increased maintenance costs. The associated need for extensive product support systems, results in an unnecessarily high TCO for maintaining products.
- Limited aftermarket revenue growth: Limited aftermarket support results in a low rate of customer returns. Companies are constantly struggling with ways to increase aftermarket deliverables, knowing that they directly impact aftermarket revenue.
- Excessive aftermarket support costs: 2D Technical Publications do not effectively communicate product information. This results in the need to establish large and expensive customer support teams to maintain a product throughout its lifecycle.
- Significant competition on aftermarket parts and services: Limited aftermarket deliverables provide no competitive advantage on winning service contracts, resulting in a market share loss to the Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) manufactures.
The Anark Solution:
Anark’s industry leading Technical Publication Solution allows businesses to repurpose existing CAD/PDM or DCC data into interactive 3D PDFs and IETMs. This sophisticated process enables accelerated document publication timelines, heightened document functionality, more effective aftermarket support solutions, and an overall decrease in the cost of document production.
- Graphic and content generation:
- 3D graphic generation: Efficiently create Lightweight 3D views and presentations from your CAD data for use in your Technical Content Solutions. Output will include various 3D formats and industry standards such as U3D supporting the S1000D, ATA, PDF, and other applications.
- 2D graphic generation: Easily create 2D views from your CAD data for delivery on low bandwidth environment and incorporation in 2D publications.
- Improved document management: Graphic asset updates keep documents current with the most recent iterations of product engineering specifications.
- Decreased time to market: CAD/PDM importation capabilities allow for the technical documentation creation process to begin earlier in the product development process.
- Fly-through, drill-down document navigation: Build 3D Drill-Down navigation to support a fully interactive Technical Content Environment and customer aftermarket applications.
- Integrated 3D aftermarket applications: Training materials, parts catalogs, and maintenance systems are integrated into complete MRO systems driven via an intuitive 3D interface.
- Award winning authoring tools: Anark’s products and services have long been recognized throughout the 3D industry as being powerful, easy to use and effective.
- Anark professional services: Anark’s team of industry leading designers, 3D architects, artists, and application specialists are available to assist with the creation of visualization applications that deliver the desired results.
The Benefits:
- Accelerate products to market: Documents can be initiated earlier and completed faster, allowing products to be delivered rapidly and with improved supporting materials.
- Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Increasing loyalty and opportunities to purchase additional products, services, and modifications.
- Decrease costs and maintenance: Repurposing data from the CAD and DCC sources reduces the reproduction costs of graphics for publication usage.
- Increase quality: 3D images that are generated directly from their native sources allows for unparalleled visual acuity for technical publications.
- Decrease support costs: Up-to-date and enhanced publications reduce customer support calls.
- Increase aftermarket revenue: Utilize enhanced 3D publications to market peripheral products and services to customers.
