PTC Speeds Up Porsche's Maintenance and Repair Manuals

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced that Porsche is using PTC’s Arbortext dynamic publishing software to streamline the creation and distribution of its maintenance and repair manuals. The solution is in use by more than 650 authorized Porsche maintenance and repair shops globally.

Arbortext is at the heart of Porsche’s technical documentation system integrating all maintenance- and repair-related information and documents in a single web-based platform. By maximizing the reuse of document components, maintenance and repair information is now created more efficiently and service quality has improved as service documentation is now always up-to-date.

Enabling shorter development cycles while managing a growing number of new models and equipment variants is not only a challenge for product development engineers, but also for technical editors serving the aftermarket. They have to generate more maintenance and repair documents while delivering that documentation to the maintenance and repair shops faster than before.

Porsche selected PTC Arbortext because of its ability to help customers overcome these challenges through its component-based authoring tools, the incorporation of industry standards and best practices within the solution, and its ability to publish to multiple formats such as PDF, print, and web.

For more information, please visit PTC.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.