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    By optimising your technical documentation, you will sustainably strengthen your company’s image.

Technical documentation for different sectors

KERN Global Language Services will support you with your technical documentation - regardless of whether your company is a small business or a large corporation. The technical editors have the necessary know-how in different sectors and are happy to support you directly on-site. We can support you ideally and comprehensively in the following areas, for example:

 

Automotive industry

Regardless of whether it is a requirement specification, a user manual or construction data - particularly in a sector as fast-paced as the automotive industry, it is paramount to provide accompanying product information of the highest quality and to guarantee complete and up-to-date data at any time. As a result of the rapid technological advancement in recent years, the demands on professional technical documentation have multiplied, however. Ensuring high-quality and legally compliant documentation therefore poses new and complex challenges to car manufacturers, dealers and suppliers.

Typical requirements in the automotive sector:

  • Documentation related to drawings - specific drawing frames and their parts lists
  • Export and provision of specific file formats
  • Upload and maintenance of client portals
  • Checking your documentation for completeness - folder structures and overall lists
  • Creation of maintenance and service documentation
  • Fast and high-quality translations for international locations
  • Risk assessment according to EN 12100

What we offer:

  • Check of all documents for compliance with legal regulations and relevant requirements through qualified technical editors
  • Cost transparency and adherence to deadlines
  • Support on-site, review of documentation created by subcontractors
  • Full service - from reviewing your requirement specification all the way to translation, as a one-off service or as your go-to partner for services of this kind

The result:

The result significantly depends on your needs - in any case, you will receive proper technical documentation, which has been reviewed to ensure that it complies with all your requirements. This way, your information material can be provided to your business partners on schedule. By optimising your technical documentation, KERN as your partner helps you to sustainably strengthen your corporate image. You will benefit from the services of one of the most experienced full-service providers for technical documentation in the automotive sector.

We are also happy to help you with the modernisation and editing of your previously used graphics.

Further information can be found in the info sheet.

Medical technology

Writing technical documentation requires as much professionalism as the development of medical products itself. Operating instructions, declarations of conformity and technical data must always be up-to-date and of high quality, particularly in the medical sector. Medical device manufacturers, dealers and suppliers are repeatedly faced with new and complex challenges due to new demands placed on product documentation.

On 25 May 2017, the new Medical Device Regulation (MDR 2017/745) came into force and following a transitional period of four years, application of the regulation is mandatory from 26 May 2021. It replaces the Medical Device Directive (MDD, 93/42/EC) and the Directive on Active Implantable Medical Devices (AIMD 90/385/EC).

The new MDR places comprehensive demands on medical device manufacturers and operators and has a wider scope of application. The Medical Device Regulation contains changes on conformity assessments and the CE marking associated with it. Therefore manufacturers have to reassess their products with regards to conformity with the new EU regulation. The responsibility for the CE marking and the declaration of conformity always lies with the entity that places a particular product on the market. Therefore, the operator can often become the manufacturer from a legal point of view thanks to conversions, boosts to performance or self-determined combination of production facilities.

We support you in fulfilling the requirements associated with CE marking and the new Medical Device Regulation. We will carry out individual steps for you or handle the entire process.

We offer the following services:

  • Checking of your user manuals and operating instructions for completeness (MDR CHECK)
  • Checking whether all directives and harmonised norms have been applied for your product
  • Checking the software documentation and risk assessment
  • Checking and translation of the GUI (graphical user interface) and retranslation of your documents

Consumer electronics and electrical technology

The technology used in products is becoming ever more sophisticated. Therefore, it is paramount that the associated technical documentation is always up-to-date and complies with the respective requirements. Operating, assembly and maintenance instructions must be appropriate for the target group, must be legally compliant, of the highest quality and must be checked consistently for currency. In addition, manufacturers and distributors are responsible for CE marking and the declaration of conformity of their products.

We will support you in providing professional and current accompanying product documentation. Our trained editors will create and review your documents in accordance with stipulated guidelines and norms. Based on the client’s request, our long-time experts will carry out individual steps or entire processes for you.

Typical requirements are:

  • Documents in the respective national languages
  • Pictorial instructions, product illustrations and graphics (quick user guides)
  • Creation of operating and assembly instructions
  • Valid CE marking and EC declaration of conformity
  • Creation of the risk assessment: Checking guidelines and norms for currency with product updates

Our services:

  • We will support you with CE marking and the EC declaration of conformity
  • We can establish which guidelines and universal standards are relevant to your product
  • Our editors will support you on-site
  • Creation of the risk assessment and other co-applicable documents using software tools
  • Introduction of and training on CE software
  • We will support you in creating a concept for reworking and processing graphics and illustrations pictorial instructions
  • We will carry out the translation of your documents using state-of-the-art translation tools