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Military rotary aircraft manufacturer scales up tech pubs
Rotary aircraft manufacturer reduces production time by 92% and increases output by 50%.
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A rotary aircraft manufacturer needed to scale up its tech pubs operations, but its existing system was based on monolithic structured documentation and PDFs, making it inefficient and error-prone. The manufacturer needed to update its system in order to achieve enterprise-level scaling.
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Rotary aircraft manufacturer reduced error rates from 1 in 33 pages to 1 in 667 with Contenta solutions
Challenges
- Move to a modular content strategy to maximize reuse
- Reduce error rate in creation of tech pubs data via a component reuse strategy
- Migrate outdated PDF-based tech pubs to a fully digitized process
Solution
Results
- Redundant editing cut by 85%
- Production time reduced by 92%
- Output increased by 50%
- Error rates reduced from 1 in every 33 pages to 1 in every 667
- ROI on entire hardware and software solution achieved almost two years ahead of schedule
- Single solution supporting both S1000D and legacy specs
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