Automotive - Unique challenges for automotive manafacturers and suppliers to the automotive industry
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Automotive Solutions

Automotive Solutions

SDL Structured Content products enable automotive customers manage large volumes of documentation.

Key Trends

  • A continuing need to provide printed manuals, for both consumers and technicians, in many languages
  • Frequent model enhancements trigger constant documentation updates
  • Documentation must be turned around quickly to align with manufacturing timeframes
  • Each vehicle model requires thousands of pages of documentation

Structured Content Addresses These Challenges By:

  • Offering solutions that enable streamlined publishing to multiple channels
  • Allowing a mechanism to facilitate incremental updates
  • Streamline the entire process of creation, management and publishing to maximize efficiency

Structured Content Technologies Provides Business Benefits By:

  • Reducing translation costs with incremental updates
  • Enhanced quality through consistency and re-use
  • Reducing costs and headcounts while producing more and better content
  • Manage widely varied content by product, market and language

Type of Content That Can Be Moved to Structured Content:

  • Consumer-based owner manuals
  • Operating manuals for custom-configured freight trucks
  • Engineering specifications
  • Support information

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Automotive

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