SERVICE MANUAL REVISION

[Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>]

Hello,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von Jane Bergen  an All am 21.01.97

the original request escaped me:

JB> > My company prints service manuals for all of our products to
JB> be used
JB> > by service techs.  The service techs that use these manuals
JB> are
JB> > wondering if they have the latest revision of the manual.
JB> Does
JB> > anyone have an idea of how a printed manual can be marked so
JB> that a
JB> > user can tell if it is the latest revision?

I did service manuals for medical electronics from 1984 to 1989. A few of my
 experiences from that time:

- The service techs next to exclusively used circuit diagrams
  and perhaps adjustment tables.

- We included the original revision index in the schematics
  (we had to live with the schematics created by the developer
  with few possibilities to do our own drawings).

- Many sevice techs could not be prevented from using extremely old
  manuals: They got them very early in their first instructions about
  that equipment and wrote lots of notes into the manuals. They thought
  they could not live without these notes for years!


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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