DOCUFY TopicPilot at Siemens Mobility – a success story

With TopicPilot and COSIMA from DOCUFY, Siemens Mobility overcomes one of the most difficult challenges in technical documentation: users always find the right information in the right place at the right time, even if the database comprises thousands of pages.

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Evaluate design data, reduce production costs – Spühl GmbH relies on DOCUFY CAx Analytics to do this

You’ve made your bed, now you have to lie in it – and if you’re lying on a mattress from Spühl, you’ll have the best sleep of your life! The company based in Wittenbach, Switzerland, has made huge strides in the quality of its design data and uses big-data analysis in DOCUFY CAx Analytics to resolve problems and optimise processes. The manufacturer of wire forming machines has a soft and comfortable – or rather efficient and high-quality – basis for its future.

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Better Data Quality with DOCUFY CAx Quality Manager – A GRIMME Group Success Story

The DOCUFY CAx Quality Manager has been in use at GRIMME Landmaschinenfabrik for one and a half years – a success story.

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Chiron and DOCUFY

DOCUFY has been around for 20 years. We have been a customer for almost half that time. This brief article is intended to show how we have fared.

When mechanical engineers make documentation…

We first made contact with the company from Bamberg in late 2008 when we were looking for a replacement for our existing content management system. At that time, XML-based systems were still in the development phase.
DOCUFY’s first presentations won us over to the point that we included COSIMA on our shortlist. However, we were not able to accept the bid for a while as the mechanical engineering crisis got in our way.

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Dive into the cold water – with COSIMA go! Getting started completely without chattering teeth

Meister Strömungstechnik GmbH has been working with COSIMA go! since 2009. Based on the positive experience, it was soon became clear that the use of the CCMS would be expanded in the company. To this end, additional employees from different areas of the company are involved, who support the technical editing department.

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A day in the life of an editorial department

In 2015, the SIEMENS AG Locomotive Documentation department wanted to introduce a Component Content Management System (CCMS) to optimize its editorial process and chose COSIMA go! from DOCUFY. In this article, system administrator Tobias Zieringer describes the introduction of the system:

… I had only just arrived in the office when my mobile rang. The sales department wanted to know when the documentation for our new customer would be ready, oh, and they needed replies to the review comments from last week as soon as possible.

My colleague gave me a questioning look: “How will we have time to introduce a new CCMS? What are the aims of the new system? Should we choose an off-the-shelf product, or start from scratch? And how does publication configuration even work?”

“Enough questions, let’s just get started,” I replied: “There no such thing as the perfect moment!”

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