The benefits of interactive electronic technical documentation (IETD)

IETD can provide a common, interactive display environment for

• Descriptive technical documentation
• Catalogued technical documentation
• Contents and information of any other kind

Particularly effective for large bodies of documentation:

• Easy, consistent management and handling of contents
• Easy, space-saving and portable data storage on DVD or CD-ROM, instead of a paper files as in the past
• Easy data revision, keeping the data as up-to-date as possible, by exchanging the data medium or through online updates. As an alternative, the data can be maintained on a central server, and accessed via an intranet or the internet.
• Older versions of the documentation can be used in parallel

Further advantages that are hard to beat:

• Electronic search and filtering facilities for finding any desired content
• Facility for linking descriptive sections with parts catalog data
(linking)