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High degree of automation
Due to the high degree of automation of catalogue creation
only a few mouse clicks are required from data import to the output
of the finished catalogues (CD ROM, print and Internet).
The creation time (computer time) remains within the minute range
even for 1000 „page“ issues.
With 4 to 7 mouse clicks the catalogue may be completed in a few minutes!
High configuring capability
Catalogues may be individually configured in a few
mouseclicks without any program knowledge – for paper,
CD and the Internet. Any number of catalogue configurations
(style and languages of the catalogues, type and displaying
of the contents) may be saved and retrieved as required, changed
and saved under a new name. As such you may tailor your catalogues
exactly to the needs of your target groups, regardless of whether
they are for paper, CD ROM output or the Internet.
Machine, order or customer-specific catalogues at the press of a button!
All media from the same source
PARTS-PUBLISHER operates on a single source principle.
This means that catalogues for all media (paper, CD ROM, Internet)
may be created from one and the same data source,
namely the PARTS-PUBLISHER catalogue database.
By using the same database, multiple processing of data for publication
on various media is dispensed with.
Information is uniformly available in all media, media breaches are avoided!
Automated data adoption from third party systems
Standardised interfaces (incl. SAP certified OCI) permit
easy linkage to stock management, logistic, PDM, CRM or E-business systems.
As a rule, data updating is performed in the high-level system
(e.g. SAP R/3). Data changes are directly effective in the catalogue
for all media produced. Linking to, for instance, SAP R/3, Axalant,
PSI PENTA, SAP Online Store, SAP Internet Sales, mySAP CRM have
been achieved for different companies.
Easy incorporation in an existing or planned IT landscape!
Interactive catalogue creation
As an alternative or in addition to the standardised import and to
the automated catalogue creation, the structure of catalogues
(parts lists, master data, catalogue structure etc.) can be carried out interactively.
In addition to the automated data preparation, the interaction option can, for example,
be used for the post-editing of imported data.
Automatic setting of hotspots
Hotspots may be set manually, automatically or even
in batch mode to position numbers in drawings. The HOTSPOT-TOOL
may be trained for various drawing types. The result of each training
process may be saved and retrieved again at any time in order to set
hotspots in comparable drawings. Matching parts lists and hotspots
records missing or incorrect entries.
See also information » HOTSPOT-TOOL.
The swiftest and most reliable method of linking drawings and parts lists!
Descriptive documentation may be integrated
Manuals, assembly instructions or other descriptive documentation
e.g. PDF, Word, HTML, XML, RTF files) may also be incorporated in
the catalogue as well as videos, animated and 3D sequences.
Hyperlinks from the spare parts catalogue to the relevant documentation
permit bidirectional jumping back and forth between catalogue and
documentation.
All information compactly linked!
Freely definable data filter
Data filters may be set both during creation and when using the catalogues.
In catalogue creation filters determine which data is to be featured
in the catalogue. End users of the catalogues may control data viewing
via filters. Filters are freely definable and may be set via:
 | construction status according to series number or construction date
| | | catalogue contents according to user groups
| | | any filters for all existing data (e.g. wearing parts, maintenance cycles)
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Each user only sees the catalogue data destined for him/her!
Catalogues in all languages
PARTS-PUBLISHER supports Unicode. As a result, you can provide catalogues
worldwide for your employees and customers in their national language
(including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic etc.).
No special code pages or conversion tables are required.
Translations via interface
If catalogues are to be created in languages not available in the catalogue database
(because, for example, they are not or only incompletely kept up to date in the ERP
system), the translation process can be control via the Workbench of PARTS-PUBLISHER.
Catalogue texts can be exported and provided for translation in the form of an Excel
table or a CSV file. Following translation (translation memory, terminology database, translator etc.),
the results can be imported to the catalogue database again and are then available for catalogue production.
Updating with minimal effort and expense
Catalogues can be realised quickly, simply and in several media types.
Data changes or additions in the catalogue database (made manually or automatically,
e.g. integrated from the ERP system) take effect without redundancies in all media (Print, CD, Internet).
With the PARTS-PUBLISHER additional solution „Update Manager“,
catalogue CDs already in circulation can be updated via the Internet.
And that eliminates the need to distribute new catalogue CDs.
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