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Must-have features: How COSIMA optimizes your technical documentation

The demands on technical documentation are increasing - whether due to ever shorter product cycles, a wide range of variants or international target groups. To enable companies to create documentation for their products quickly and efficiently, they need a powerful editing system. DOCUFY COSIMA offers a selection of functions that are specifically tailored to the needs of modern documentation processes. These features help companies to design their documentation clearly, quickly and effectively.

5. November 2024

Delivering technical documentation efficiently and accurately – ‘simple’ makes all the difference

Technical documentation

It was a Monday morning when I recognized a recurring problem during a conversation with a customer. He told me that a distraught colleague from production was standing in his office looking for instructions on how to calibrate a machine. He was in the middle of the work process but was having difficulty finding the required documentation quickly. "Where can I find that again? Can you briefly explain to me how it works?" - a question that takes up…

15. October 2024

5 questions about COSIMA

DOCUFY Insights

In our series "5 questions about..." we present our tools and their most important functions and advantages. Today: Everything you need to know about COSIMA Interview partner: Holger Rath, Product Manager COSIMA and DOCUFY Layouter.

9. October 2024

Editorial systems for technical documentation: The key to efficient creation of operating instructions

Technical documentation

Whether operating instructions, product descriptions or service manuals - the requirements for technical documentation are complex and varied. This is where content management systems come into play, which have been specially developed to meet the requirements of technical documentation. What exactly is an editing system and how can it help companies to optimize their documentation processes?…

14. August 2024

Bye bye Word – hello intelligent editing system: create operating instructions with ease

Technical documentation

The days when you had to spend hours formatting and maintaining operating instructions in Word are over. COSIMA, an AI-supported software for creating operating instructions, can make your day-to-day work much easier. It automates time-consuming tasks, offers a user-friendly interface and increases efficiency and quality through intelligent add-ons.

7. August 2024

5 questions about DOCUFY Layouter

DOCUFY Insights

Interview partner: Holger Rath, Product Manager COSIMA and DOCUFY Layouter. What is DOCUFY Layouter and what can he do? DOCUFY Layouter is an easy-to-use cloud solution that allows editors to design their own output layouts. Once defined, layouts can be transferred to derived layouts via intelligent inheritance mechanisms. This not only ensures consistent, corporate design-compliant output, but also saves a lot of time and annoying coordination rounds. What benefits does DOCUFY Layouter have for me and how does the software…

8. July 2024

New in COSIMA: IGEL – the integrated callout editor

DOCUFY Insights

Explaining complex issues in a simple way - often a very difficult task. Images can help illustrate what you want to say. Because you know: A picture says more than a thousand words! Especially in technical documentation graphics are used to put things in a nutshell. The reference of the graphics to the descriptive text is important. These references are created using item lines and/or item numbers, the so-called callouts. With COSIMA Release 7.0 you now have an integrated callout…

5. June 2024