Optimize Your Tech Pubs Operations.
OVERVIEW
Docs That Rock: Flatirons’ Secret Sauce for OEM Sanity
Flatirons Manufacturer Edition tackles the technical publication challenges faced by aerospace and defense OEMs. It streamlines the management and viewing of complex technical content while effectively handling compliance requirements and reducing costs throughout the product lifecycle. Moreover, it integrates seamlessly with existing ERP and CRM systems, facilitating content reuse and allowing for faster and more accurate delivery of technical information.
Use Cases
No More Technical Information Headaches
Authoring
Tame the Technical Content Jungle
Viewing
Ditch the Old, Embrace the New
Before: Content Chaos: When Your Documents Rebel
Tracking versions across various formats is tedious and time-consuming, with content scattered across documents causing inconsistencies. Managing multiple input sources for S1000D projects and dealing with unintegrated legacy formats only adds to the frustration, resulting in an inefficient and chaotic process.
Before: Legacy Viewers: Stuck in the Slow Lane
Using legacy viewers can be restrictive, especially with modern tagged content. These systems often fail to keep up, necessitating the need to switch between apps for basic tasks. Moreover, the lack of offline viewing and user feedback features can make it inconvenient to access information when you need it most.
After: Bye-Bye Documentation Nightmares, Hello Flatirons
Say hello to content nirvana! With Data Modules (DMs), your content is modularized for efficient reuse and consistency, making it easy to publish to multiple customers from one centralized source. You get automatic change tracking for DM updates, while the Common Source Database (CSDB) ensures secure version control. Additionally, your S1000D content integrates seamlessly with ERP, MRO, and IETP systems for effortless access.After: One Login, Endless Possibilities
Accessing technical data has never been easier. With just one login, you have a single source of truth, a predictive search for quick results, and manual-specific searches that work intuitively. Intelligent interlinking seamlessly connects all your manuals, while offline feedback tools capture every critical input. Whether working online or offline, everything you need is right at your fingertips—making your workflow smoother and more efficient.Authoring
Tame the Technical Content Jungle
Before: Content Chaos: When Your Documents Rebel
Tracking versions across various formats is tedious and time-consuming, with content scattered across documents causing inconsistencies. Managing multiple input sources for S1000D projects and dealing with unintegrated legacy formats only adds to the frustration, resulting in an inefficient and chaotic process.
After: Bye-Bye Documentation Nightmares, Hello Flatirons
Say hello to content nirvana! With Data Modules (DMs), your content is modularized for efficient reuse and consistency, making it easy to publish to multiple customers from one centralized source. You get automatic change tracking for DM updates, while the Common Source Database (CSDB) ensures secure version control. Additionally, your S1000D content integrates seamlessly with ERP, MRO, and IETP systems for effortless access.
Viewing
Ditch the Old, Embrace the New
Before: Legacy Viewers: Stuck in the Slow Lane
Using legacy viewers can be restrictive, especially with modern tagged content. These systems often fail to keep up, necessitating the need to switch between apps for basic tasks. Moreover, the lack of offline viewing and user feedback features can make it inconvenient to access information when you need it most.
After: One Login, Endless Possibilities
Accessing technical data has never been easier. With just one login, you have a single source of truth, a predictive search for quick results, and manual-specific searches that work intuitively. Intelligent interlinking seamlessly connects all your manuals, while offline feedback tools capture every critical input. Whether working online or offline, everything you need is right at your fingertips—making your workflow smoother and more efficient.
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Key Benefits
Streamline Your Tech Pubs Processes
Your Content Superhero
Are you struggling with creating and maintaining consistency across S1000D and ATA iSpec 2200 formats? Need revisions? They happen instantly with Flatirons Knowledge Center. Watch collaboration improve among partners, programs, and customers as your revenue increases and profits grow. It’s like having a documentation superhero on your team, minus the cape and awkward tights.
Work Smarter, Launch Faster
Integrating in-house PLM and ERP systems can boost productivity and accelerate the end-to-end automation of the entire publishing chain. Automation manages component supplier content—capturing, validating, and importing it—allowing you to eliminate errors and say goodbye to those ad-hoc, redundant, and repetitive manual tasks.
Minimize IT Complexity and Reduce Training and IT Costs
Ditch the budget-draining chaos and reduce operational costs with a unified system that manages all your technical information across major component types and data exchange specifications. Why juggle multiple legacy systems when you can simplify your operations by using one solution that works? Your IT department willGet Info Where It Counts—Fast
Make the most of your S1000D data with smart delivery options that keep your engineers and techs in the know. Whether it’s kiosks, mobile devices, or advanced paper options, you’ll want to move away from outdated methods and provide technicians with the latest information right when they need it. No more wasted time or cumbersome processes—just streamlined performance!
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Key Features
Achieve Productivity Gains
The Ultimate Multi-Format Mixer
Create, Edit, & Publish Content with Flatirons Knowledge Center
This is where S1000D, ATA iSpec2200, and PDFs work in harmony—no conversions, no headaches. Combine specifications, link content effortlessly, and search across formats like a pro. Welcome to the future of manual creation and publishing management.
One Viewer to Rule Them All
View and edit technical content with Flatirons Pinpoint
Easily view, edit, and search for technical content, updates, service bulletins, and more with our advanced IETP viewer. Access S1000D, iSpec 2200, PDFs, and service bulletin data all in one place—there’s no need to manage multiple logins or passwords.
Advanced Technical Content Management and Delivery
Streamline Workflows with Flatirons Insight
Revamp your approach to creating, managing, and delivering technical content to gain real-time control and enhance your workflow. Organize and provide digital technical manuals, bulletins, maintenance procedures, and parts catalogs designed for technicians. It integrates with ERP, PLM, and CRM systems to automate workflows and maintain regulatory compliance audit trails.
FLATIRONS MANUFACTURER EDITION
Reduce the Complexity of Technical Content Management to
Achieve Productivity Gains
Flatirons Manufacturer Edition helps aerospace and defense OEMs efficiently create and manage technical documentation. It streamlines the entire technical content lifecycle management process while ensuring compliance requirements are met, thereby reducing costs and increasing overall productivity. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, making it simpler to reuse content and deliver accurate technical information more quickly.
Flatirons Knowledge Center
Simplify complex authoring, revision, and publication processes
Flatirons Pinpoint
Take control of the OEM data from your maintenance operations
Flatirons eTaskcard
Boost productivity by streamlining and tracking your change processes
Flatirons Insight
Transform manual processes into efficient, auditable digital workflows with real-time analytics
Flatirons Pinpoint’s all-in-one IETP viewer makes handling complex technical stuff a breeze. It works everywhere you need—online or offline—and supports multiple standards like S1000D and ATA iSpec 2200 across all your airframes, engines, and components. The system supercharges your productivity with features like content filtering, multimedia support, and troubleshooting tools, all while keeping your tech data updated faster and minimizing production delays.
Flatirons eTaskcard enables OEMs to deliver up-to-date maintenance task cards directly to technicians’ desktops and mobile devices, providing significant value for their customers. eTaskcard features automatic work card generation from maintenance manuals and supports electronic sign-off through a robust mobile viewer. By eliminating paper-based processes, eTaskcard helps operators improve productivity by reducing the costs and waste associated with printing work packages.
Flatirons Insight provides a comprehensive workflow tool for managing publication revision processes, forms, and eTaskCard execution. It enables users to transform their existing paper or email-based processes into digital and automated workflows. Insight employs a real-time analytics tool and offers a complete audit trail, ensuring organizations have full visibility into their intricate business processes. Furthermore, Insight captures and archives all processes and data points from the workflow using next-generation predictive analytics.
Flatirons Knowledge Center
Simplify complex authoring, revision, and publication processes
Flatirons Knowledge Center for Manufacturers (KCM) is designed to simplify multi-spec, multi-format delivery requirements, offering proven content management and publishing capabilities for OEMs within a single system. It provides access to powerful authoring tools that enhance technical data development, modification, and revision control, elevating content lifecycle management to a new level.
Flatirons Pinpoint
Take control of the OEM data from your maintenance operations
Flatirons Pinpoint’s all-in-one IETP viewer makes handling complex technical stuff a breeze. It works everywhere you need—online or offline—and supports multiple standards like S1000D and ATA iSpec 2200 across all your airframes, engines, and components. The system supercharges your productivity with features like content filtering, multimedia support, and troubleshooting tools, all while keeping your tech data updated faster and minimizing production delays.
Flatirons eTaskcard
Boost productivity by streamlining and tracking your change processes
Flatirons eTaskcard enables OEMs to deliver up-to-date maintenance task cards directly to technicians’ desktops and mobile devices, providing significant value for their customers. eTaskcard features automatic work card generation from maintenance manuals and supports electronic sign-off through a robust mobile viewer. By eliminating paper-based processes, eTaskcard helps operators improve productivity by reducing the costs and waste associated with printing work packages.
Flatirons Insight
Transform manual processes into efficient, auditable digital workflows with real-time analytics
Flatirons Insight provides a comprehensive workflow tool for managing publication revision processes, forms, and eTaskCard execution. It enables users to transform their existing paper or email-based processes into digital and automated workflows. Insight employs a real-time analytics tool and offers a complete audit trail, ensuring organizations have full visibility into their intricate business processes. Furthermore, Insight captures and archives all processes and data points from the workflow using next-generation predictive analytics.
INTEGRATIONS
Works Seamlessly with Your Manufacturing Ecosystem
The Flatirons Manufacturer Edition supports bi-directional integration with ERP and PLM systems to streamline workflows and enhance data consistency for aerospace and defense OEMs. This integration facilitates real-time data exchange while automating processes such as technical content updates. The results? Optimized workflows, streamlined authoring, improved compliance tracking, and substantial cost savings through increased operational efficiency.
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