This website contains details of future and the most recent seminars aimed at Technical Documentation professionals dealing with complex equipment.
There are usually one or two seminars taking place every year. Typically, they will consist of talks by a number of industry experts, together with speakers from industry who share their own experiences. They are designed to be essential learning for industry and MoD professionals responsible for engineering, training and technical data management.
LATEST EVENT:
"How to reduce long term documentation costs, add value for your customers and increase spares revenues" - The Business Case for S1000D
Tuesday, 30th June 2009 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
 | The content of this seminar in the form of slides from the presentations (with audio commentary) and video of S1000D software has now been published to CD. For your free copy, please visit: S1000D Seminar CD and fill in the form |
At the event, delegates found out how to:
Reduce your technical documentation costs
Win more contracts, by enhancing your after sales support capability
Reduce 'time to market' on projects
Increase spares revenues
Reduce the time spent checking the information you receive
Save time researching to find the information you need
Improve the productivity of your authors or external sub-contractors
Increase the productivity of your engineers by helping them concentrate on development work
All the speakers have practical experience.
- The real benefits of S1000D
- The differences between S1000D and DITA, so you can see which is most suited to your requirements
- What 'data re-use' could actually mean for your business
- How you can quickly resolve disputes with customers & suppliers
- An efficient way to manage your external sub-contractors and suppliers
- How you can establish whether S1000D is right for your business
- What steps you'll need to take if you decide to go ahead
Topics covered
The technical documentation process - why is everyone talking about S1000D?
What are the benefits of moving to S1000D for manufacturers of complex equipment?
How will your customers benefit?
How to decide whether S1000D is relevant and right for your business
What steps are required to implement S1000D?
Open Panel discussions for questions and answers from delegates
Demonstrations of software for working with S1000D
The opportunity to discuss specific issues with experts
About the Speakers
Ian Proctor - Publications Consultant, CDG
- Over 30 years technical publications experience with CDG and previously the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
- Expertise in both paper & Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETPs)
- Member of both the ASD/AIA/ATA S1000D EPWG (Electronic Publications Working Group) and the UK S1000D Working Group
- Head of the S1000D Multimedia Sub-Group & a member of the S1000D Training Sub-Group
- S1000D consultant to Boeing
- Practical experience of implementing S1000D projects
- An entertaining, engaging and informative speaker and one of the leading S1000D experts in the country
Paul Allen - Manager of Aerospace and Defence Software Product Management, PTC
- Member of the European and the US S1000D Electronic Publications Working Groups (EPWG)
- Responsible for S2000M provisioning and Logistic Support Analysis software
- Paul has been involved with numerous implementations of ASD S1000D software and its use
David Hughes - Business Development Director, PTC
David has worked in the Technical Publications industry, both military and commercial, for over twenty-five years. In that time, David has been responsible for the application of industry specifications from both perspectives of technology solution development and publication service delivery.
What delegates said about last year's event
"Very good. Informative speakers." Roger Screech, Babcock Marine
"Helpful & informative." Chris Jenns, GE Aviation
"An interesting & valuable seminar with good contacts made." Alan Eames, TFCS IPT, MoD
For more information, please call us on +44 (0)1707 367700, or e-mail enquiries@techdocseminars.info.
Attendees of a previous seminar of ours on S1000D/SCORM at Tewkesbury, April 2008
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