Elekta 

Elekta is a human care company pioneering significant innovations and clinical solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders. Elekta provides intelligent and resource-efficient technologies that improve, prolong and save patient lives.

The challenge

• To standardize documentation in compliance with corporate style guide EASE (Elekta Approved Simplified English)
• To improve quality and readability of manuals
• To save translation cost

The solution

• Etteplan | Tedopres developed the EASE dictionary containing Elekta standardized terminology and trained Elekta technical writers in the UK, Sweden and US on the rules of EASE and how to use the HyperSTE software
• For IMPAC, Etteplan | Tedopres developed the IMPAC dictionary containing IMPAC specific terminology which can be used together with the EASE dictionary
• Elekta uses HyperSTE to ensure compliance with EASE

The results

• Up to 30% in translation cost savings
• Reduced word count by 40%
• Better quality and readability of manuals
• Reduced cycle time
• Overall documentation cost reduced by 20%
• Better reusability of text in XML environment
• Standardized terminology and style
   

Rolls-Royce North America, located in Indianapolis, is a trusted leader for land, sea and air power solutions worldwide. Rolls-Royce uses HyperSTE to ensure compliance of its technical publications with ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100).

The Challenge

• to standardize documentation in compliance with the Simplified Technical English specification ASD-STE100
• to improve quality and readability of manuals
• to reduce cycle time

The Solution

Etteplan | Tedopres developed a dictionary containing Rolls-Royce standardized terminology and trained Rolls-Royce technical writers and editors on the rules of ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100) and how to use the HyperSTE software.

As part of the implementation process, Rolls-Royce uses the HyperSTE checker software to ensure that all manuals comply with ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100), including the use of standardized and consistent Rolls-Royce terminology.

The Results

Implementing ASD Simplified Technical English and HyperSTE yielded the following results for Rolls-Royce:

• Compliance with ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100), a requirement for aerospace manuals.
• Better quality and readability of manuals.
• Reduced cycle time.
• Better reusability of text.
• Standardized terminology and style.
• Approximate 81% reduction of grammatical errors and 90% reduction in Simplified Technical English errors.
• Approximate 52% reduction in time to find Simplified Technical English errors.
• Approximate 48% reduction in time to review documents for grammatical and Simplified Technical English errors.
• Approximate 25% increase in grammatical and Simplified Technical English errors found.