ArborText

Create & Manage a Single Source of Publishing Content

Are you looking for a solution that:

• enables your company to concurrently develop your products and associated technical publications?
• enables your technical writers, contractors and suppliers to collaboratively create and manage a single source of publication content to be used across all required media formats?
• automatically configures and delivers personalized publications to address the exact needs of every consumer?

PTC's Product Development System (PDS) with the dynamic publishing capabilities of the Arbortext software is the industry's only integral solution for collaboratively authoring, managing, publishing and dynamically delivering personalized publications from a single-content source. PDS allows you to associate mechanical, electronic and software design content with images and with textual and tabular data to create a rich, interactive documentation set that automatically updates when product changes occur. PDS addresses all aspects of the technical publications process. It removes organizational barriers, increases publication authoring, and updates productivity, reduces translation costs and automatically delivers personalized content in a variety of media formats.

PTC’s Product Development System

Create, Collaborate, Control, Configure, & Communicate

Whether you are small or big, whether your product is a cell phone, an airplane, or mold tooling for an OEM, succeeding at product development is more challenging than ever. Success today depends on effective management of product complexity and variability.

Our experience with 40,000 manufacturing customers has shown the need for five critical capabilities:

1. Create detailed digital product information
2. Collaborate with distributed project teams, customers, suppliers, and partners
3. Control content and automate processes
4. Configure content to match products and services
5. Communicate with people and with other business applications

The PTC Product Development System uniquely delivers all these capabilities on an integral, Web-based architecture that supports today's globally distributed environment.

To discuss deploying Arbortext in your company, contact a member of our Technology and Single Sourcing team. To find out more about contracting Tech-Tav to create and maintain your technical documentation using Arbortext, contact a member of our Client Services team.