Documentation Solutions

AEC will work with you to identify your true needs, develop pathways to meet those needs, and deliver on your expectations. We want to be more than a vendor; we want to be a partner in your success. If you have any kind of documentation problem, we can help. It’s not just all about a job or the nuts and bolts, it’s also how we approach relationships that matter.

AEC has the experience, software, and dedicated people to help define, develop, and deliver a documentation solution that works for you.

Are you looking to bring a dedicated specialist onto your team, or to offload a project to an expert autonomous team? Either way, we can provide the experts for short-term or long-term projects to meet your documentation requirements.

Or you may require conversions from PDF to Framemaker or XML, migration from an outdated native file format to a format more in the current mainstream, or you may need help defining an approach that works best for you.

We can help you with design concepts to setup a tech pubs department and processes from scratch. Creating style guides, templates and standardizing branding are something we help many customers with. Then we often provide surge technical writers to support your existing team, or we can be your tech pubs department. We can also consult with you to choose publication software and delivery methodology.

We can also help you improve existing manuals through document redesign, standardization, redline incorporation, validation, and technical editing.

Some of the problems that AEC can help you solve include:

Template setup for reusability

Consistent paragraph tags and style. Allows for future seamless transformation to XML or another mark-up language.

Document and template design
Automated document linking
Spanish translation
Document validation
Redline incorporation
Preventative maintenance
Design concepts

Regulatory compliance and certification

FAA CFRs
Federal Government
State Government

Product lifecycle support

Consulting to choose the right specification or software
Document Concept Design (help a customer determine how it should look or what it should contain)
Database publishing
Desktop publishing & document layout
Editing and proofreading
Configuration control
Delivery media (PDF, IETP, tablet, etc.)
Revision cycles
Customer feedback incorporation and solutions

Specification and standards compliance

iSpec 2200 and ATA-100
S1000D, XSLT/XSL-FO, Applicability, and CIRs
Military standards (Mil-Specs)
Industrial standards

Conversions

Legacy upgrades to almost any definable platform
PDF to digital (FrameMaker, inDesign, Word, etc.)
Traditional WYSIWYG to Markup language (SGML, XML, S1000D, iSpec 2200, etc.)

TRAINING DOCUMENTATION AND CONSULTING

Procedures created into training modules
Training manuals and modules
Development of training materials
E-learning modules
Articulate Storyline
SCORM
Learning Management System (LMS) publication

Specific tools and technologies

Framemaker EDD, templates and master pages
3D PDF
Augmented and virtual reality
IETP/IETM
XSLT/XSLF custom development

AEC has the experience, software, and dedicated people to help define, develop, and deliver a documentation solution that works for you.  Not all documentation lends itself to classical technical writing.  You may require conversions from PDF to Framemaker or S1000D XML, migration from an outdated native file format to a format more in the current mainstream, or you may need help defining an approach that works best for you.  We can help with the technical aspects of your S1000D production by providing XSLT/XSL-FO, Applicability, and CIR support   AEC can identify and develop unique solutions that meet your goals, then work with you to create documentation that covers your needs.