Clarity and cost savings in

technical authoring

HyperSTE

Services & Solutions for Technical Documentation

Smart way to smart products

products@vizualsite.info www.vizualsite.com

3

Technical documentation is necessary to ensure safe and easy installation, use and maintenance of products. However, there are many challenges that come with documentation to ensure that your information is perceived clearly and understandably by all end users worldwide.

Good documentation can save you a lot of trouble, time and money, when it is written clearly, concisely, consistently. Information that is easy to use and understand will ensure safe use of products, reduce time for maintenance and operation, and improve the user experience.

Simplified Technical English (STE) started as an initiative in the aerospace and defense industries to standardize the writing of technical documentation due to the high-quality and safety aspects in these industries. However, nowadays STE is used as a basis for content quality in all other industries as well.

Simplified Technical English, a global standard for clarity in writing

Engage with your audience by writing content that is:• Clear• Consistent• Concise

Content Quality to help meet your business goals

2

Safety and Regulations Ensuring compliance with the highest regulatory and safety requirements, including ASD-STE100, DITA, Plain Language, Style Guides and more.

Time & Cost SavingsSave considerably on documentation, translation and localization cost, and reduce your time-to-market.

High-quality ContentAs installation, operation and maintenance documentation is an integral part of your product branding.

Improved MaintenanceResulting in optimized maintenance operations, as service engineers have quick and easy access to information that is quick and easy to understand.

Improved User ExperienceImprove the user experience of your products by providing your customers with content that is engaging.

Operational excellencehigh-quality content that helps your business excel through documentation efficiency.

Create content that has impact by making it clear, concise and consistent. Etteplan provides services and solutions to help you create content that ensures safe and easy installation, use and maintenance of our customers’ products, resulting in cost efficiency and operational flexibility.

“HyperSTE will absolutely bring consistency and simplification to the authoring process. It was a good business decision to go to STE as we become more and more intertwined globally.”

Gulfstream, Aviation

As a result, you will save on documentation cost through:• Efficient authoring: better text created

in less time• Volume reduction (through reduced

word count of up to 40%)• Translations, as they become better,

faster and cheaper• Reduced time to market

5

HyperSTE Content Quality SoftwareEtteplan developed HyperSTE to improve safety by eliminating ambiguity in technical text.

Key features• Supports many style guides and

standards, including:- ASD-STE100- Chicago Manual of Style- Microsoft Style Guide- Plain Language- DITA- S1000D & ATA iSpec 2200

• Optimizes your content by ensuringrules for terminology, spelling, grammarand style are met.

• Highlights mistakes and givessuggestions for correction. Inaddition, you can create reports tomeasure overall content quality andperformance.

• Available as a plug-in for manyauthoring tools, including Word,Framemaker, Arbortext, MadCap Flare,Oxygen and many more.

Nowadays, HyperSTE is succesfully being used by many companies in various industries, including Etteplan's own (400+) technical authors.

"Finding unexpected translation issues when we worked on our own content was a crucial convincer to the team."

Radiometer, Medical Devices

HyperSTE is implemented in 3 easy steps:

StandardizeEtteplan helps you standardize your content through a thourough linguistic analysis which results in a database with words that are specific to your organization and industry.

Furthermore, we help you define your target audience, tone of voice, create profiles and rule sets that best meet your needs.

CheckHyperSTE helps writers to use all the writing rules and words correctly. The compliance reports from HyperSTE enable you to monitor the quality of your documentation. It makes HyperSTE a perfect tool for quality management and process improvement.

HyperSTE reduces the length and complexity of your text. This means: • Smaller manuals that are better to understand and easier,

faster and better to translate.• Reuse of content – from words to complete sentences –

further enables you to write faster, and saves in word countfor translations.

TrainEtteplan offers training packages both as part of an HyperSTE implementation, as well as separately.

During the 2 day workshop (which can also be taken online) the author learns how and why to create clear, concise and consistent content.

4

Achieve Content Quality:Standardize, Train, Check

6

Etteplan STE is a service combining the proven Simplified Technical English (STE) method with our advanced HyperSTE software to produce high-quality English content for technical documentation.

The value of the rewriting service is based on improved accuracy, better readability of text and reduced word count that can result in up to 40% cost savings in translation and localization costs. The user benefits from easy-to-understand and unambiguous technical materials that enhance product safety.

Etteplan's Advanced Methods and TechnologyEtteplan's way of working is supported by advanced technology for efficiency and cost savings in technical documentation.

content

new

create

HyperDOCCMS

HyperPartsparts catalog

pdf & printHyperSTEtext

HyperSISvisual search

STIillustrations

online & mobile devices

webshop &print-on-demand

digitize

externalsystems

ERP

ThereforeDMS

publishmanage

legacy

paper

Etteplan assists global leaders to stay on top of their game

Our customers include large global product manufacturers as well as SMEs and start-up companies. Below are some examples of our long-standing partners.

Customers &References

7

Looking to outsource? Etteplan STE

Smart way to smart productswww.etteplan.com | info@etteplan.com

EtteplanEtteplan is a specialist in industrial equipment engineering and technical documentation solutions and services. Etteplan’s engineering expertise and service products support the entire life cycle of our customers' products.

Our customers are global leaders in their fields and operate in areas like the automotive, aerospace and defense industries as well as the electricity generation and power transmission sectors, and material flow management.

Etteplan has comprehensive competence in electronics and embedded systems development, automation and electrical design, mechanical design and technical documentation.

Quick facts of Etteplan• One of the largest European companies

providing industrial equipment and plantengineering services.

• One of the largest European companiesproviding technical documentationservices and solutions.

• Versatile and in-depth expertise inengineering areas, methods and industryspecific technologies.

• Almost 1,900 professionals working inFinland, Sweden, the Netherlands, USAand China.

• Revenue 131.9 million EUR in 2014.• Public company listed in NASDAQ OMX

Helsinki Ltd (ETT1V) since 2000.

products@vizualsite.info www.vizualsite.com