The benefits of IETD
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)