All entries for Industry 4.0
iiRDS in the semantic network
What are the benefits of top-level ontologies and intelligent data exchange for iiRDS? What happens when data and metadata from different systems are exchanged? What is the role of ontologies in data exchange? How can top-level ontologies improve exchanges? more...
Is AI a chance or a threat for technical communicators?
The phrase artificial intelligence (AI) is a mystery. Everyone immediately associates something with it, but the ideas are rarely identical. more...
Good riddance to the manual. From documents to knowledge bases
Usually, we create technical documentation in the form of a manual – for specific target groups and product versions. With the help of content management systems, we add metadata to our text modules and generate exactly the manual we want. Now, with the Internet of Things and a much stronger focus on modular information, our classic manual does not seem to have a future anymore. more...
Why the manual is dead
Remember your first mobile phone? Mine was shaped like a bone, nine inches high and weighed at least a pound. I used it to make phone talks, that's it. Today I have a smartphone that I sometimes use for calls. more...