– Visionics’ solution for computerized technical documentation of electronic products
Comprehensive technical documentation is produced for every electronic device. It may be sometimes very difficult to maintain and to distribute among intended users, mainly because of complexity and variety of media. Manufacturing drawings and diagrams documenting both electronic and mechanical parts of the product are often created using various software packages, requiring multiple licenses for installation at different sites. Service engineers, troubleshooting the product in the field have to be issued with bulky printed manuals, which soon become out of date or simply fall to pieces out of repeated use. Not to mention that browsing through pages of schematics diagrams or other drawings in order to find where on the board some suspected component is located takes enormous amount of time. These are just a few of frequently encountered problems.
Project databases created with help of EDWinXP serve as a source of documents needed for manufacturing, testing and assembling of printed circuit boards.Documents referring to PCBs only are just a part of full documentation of electronic products. Such documentation is much more complex and is usually spread in various formats over a mixture of media. The contents and structure varies from product to product. There may be printed matters, such as user’s guides and other manuals, containing photographic pictures, diagrams and mechanical drawings. Information in service manuals may also include data sheets for electronic parts used in the product. Troubleshooting instructions require sometimes graphical visualization of expected signal characteristics at selected test points in form of digital, voltage or current waveforms .
Imagine that all above mentioned information or any other you may think of as necessary to document your product, could be arranged in hierarchically structured, comprehensive way and stored on a single CD. DocOne is a tool you may use to produce such a CD. What benefits you gain by applying solution offered by DocOne See examples below:
is the single source of information for anyone involved in manufacturing, servicing and using your product.
When you send this CD to the PCB manufacturer, he may easily extract all artwork files and NC-Drill programs together with your detailed instructions how to proceed. He won’t need any special software for this.
From the same CD, the people who assemble the boards fetch bill of materials, assembly drawing, and programs for automatic assembly machines along with on-board-testing procedures.
Instead of carrying tons of books your service engineer needs only access to a PC and the CD of the product he has to repair. Attached photographic or 3D pictures will advise him how to open the cabinet or dismantle it in order to gain access to the boards inside. Data retrieval system will help him to find troubleshooting instructions and with navigating tools he’ll easily locate test points and components to check on the board. If he is not sure how some electronic part works, there will be relevant data sheet attached at proper hierarchical level in the database.
These are just few examples how integrated product databases prepared in DocOne may be used. With the help of this software package you can put together such databases, defining freely its content and layout. Then you burn the CD. When this is done, all that is needed to retrieve technical information about the product, is to insert a copy of this CD into any PC equipped with Windows operating system.
