3 steps to ideal digital documentation

1. good documentation creates customer confidence:

Therefore, the first question you should ask yourself is what actually makes a good documentary:

• Good documentation must be easy to find, accessible at all times and always up to date.
• The content and scope are derived from the objective of the specific documentation, i.e. what do you want to achieve with the documentation? With this objective in mind , make the documentation as comprehensive as necessary and as short as possible! After all, you shouldn’t leave out anything important, but you shouldn’t overload the user with information either.
• Target group-specific language is crucial. Address users directly, clearly and, above all, in their language. Are you addressing a layperson or an expert? This must be clear and taken into account when addressing them .
• Structure content clearly and concisely with clear titles and subtitles, broken down from the big picture into detail.
• Visualization is the be-all and end-all. Complex issues can be better explained with images. Videos depict entire processes in a comprehensible step-by-step manner. You can enrich images with even more information using symbols and drawing elements. That’s why you integrate all these tools into the documentation and thus create a varied user experience.
• Use practical search functions to ensure that users find all the important answers straight away.

2. the digitization step:

• Clarification of internal requirements and guidelines: What restrictions are there regarding the storage of the data? Is the data available via SaaS or on premises?
• How do you want to access the data in the future? A cloud solution is practical, but must take all data protection issues into account. It is also important to consider whether an internet connection must always be available to use the solution, as it is more practical if the system also works offline.
• What hardware is required for use or are there any in-house hardware requirements? Ideally, the solution is suitable for all mobile devices as well as PCs, but also for future-oriented devices such as smart glasses. This gives you maximum flexibility.
• How are access rights managed? At best, the program offers the option of assigning individual user rights.
• How user-friendly is the system? Does it offer easy-to-understand menu navigation with a logical structure? Is it intuitive and can users understand and use it without extensive training?
• Traceability is a decisive criterion in the area of documentation. Does the system recognize who created or changed which documentation and when?

3 Once you have dealt with steps one and two, the third step is the simplest and quickest of all and is called augmented instructor:

The tepcon instructor is a digitization solution for the creation and retrieval of documentation that takes into account all the points from steps one and two (presented here) and implements them perfectly in practice.

instructor – Features

• Easy to find, always available from anywhere and at any time and in the most up-to-date form.
• Extensive options for content design and structuring, direct address, easy inclusion of images, videos, markers, audio content and text
• Practical search functions
• Secure, data protection-compliant storage in the IIoT portal, access also possible offline
• Saas or OnPremise available
• Compatible with all mobile devices and smart glasses
• Individual access rights management high traceability
• User-friendly, intuitive user interface
• Transparent price-performance ratio, free demo version

How it works – super simple. We would be delighted to show you in a non-binding online meeting and look forward to your inquiry:  contact@tepcon.de.