Manufacturing & hardware manuals
Samples of manufacturing system and hardware manuals in my portfolio
LightGuide software manual
LasX Industries’ LightGuide laser control software provides a fully-featured application for the management of laser manufacturing production jobs. Each time I revised a software manual, I saw much more restructuring needed that simply couldn’t be accommodated in basic FrameMaker book and chapter files. This challenge wasn’t helped by user interfaces that differed between two hardware … Continue reading “LightGuide software manual”
Laser system hardware guide
At LasX Industries, hardware manuals for each laser system were generated in a manual process: I worked with the project engineers to determine which system was most similar to the new system being assembled, tracked down the source files for that system, then cut and pasted the old material into new chapters and updated it … Continue reading “Laser system hardware guide”