Technical Documentation
Strong Technical Documentation for Safety and Efficiency
To create a culture of safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement, every industrial and technical organization needs to optimize their people, processes, and technology. And that starts with getting everyone on the same page, literally.
Strong documentation—whether it’s user manuals, job aids, system descriptions, diagrams, or video walkthroughs—provides a consistent frame of reference for your people throughout the organization. It clearly communicates your needs and expectations and gives your workforce their best chance for high-performance.
Our Documentation Improvement Strategy
Drawing on nearly 60 years of industrial and commercial experience, GP Strategies uses proven best practices and innovative approaches side by side to create and update technical documentation that reduces risk, improves safety and efficiency, and maintains regulatory compliance. We can help you improve the quality of existing documentation or implement new systems that streamline your processes and reduce errors.
It all begins with two questions:
- What are your people doing now?
- What do you want your people to be able to do?
Technical Documentation for Specific Applications
When you partner with GP Strategies, we assess, organize, analyze, and communicate your critical information in clear formats for optimized and personalized procedures, work instructions, manuals, and more. We’ll create documentation specific to your organization, your facilities, and your teams.
From training exercises and drills to operational and equipment reference information, we can develop, design, and revise documentation such as:
- Job task analyses and procedures
- Instruction manuals and equipment user guides
- Process description manuals
- Unit-specific troubleshooting exercises and schematics
- Control diagrams
- On-the-job training guides
- Training lab procedures
- Emergency response matrices and procedures
- Startup and shutdown procedures
- Technical document standardization
Putting Your Technical Documents into Practice
Technical documents themselves are not the beginning or the end of a successful performance improvement process. That’s why our role isn’t limited to documentation alone. As a global leader in business transformation, we provide the solutions you need to solidify your success.
Accessible Practical Information
Critical information should be readily available at the moment of need and in a format that reduces friction for end users. This results in better compliance rates and stronger performance. We can help you distribute finished documentation in engaging and efficient ways, whether that’s printed content with static diagrams or interactive multimedia and augmented reality (AR) modules.
Expert Technical Consultants
Our specialized and experienced technical documentation consultants can help your workers adapt to new processes or equipment, streamline their instrumentation training, or maximize their production workflow. We’ll work to understand and assess your unique situation, then help you to identify efficiency gaps and propose specific and meaningful solutions.
Effective Change Management
Whether your technical documentation program involves standardizing a new workflow or requiring a team to train on new equipment, you are asking your people to adapt to change. Without a well-planned change management program, your organization can’t realize the full potential offered by your new technical documentation. We can design, develop, and help you execute a significant evolution within your organization.
Measurable Performance Improvement
New technical documentation is only as successful as your ability to demonstrate a measurable improvement. Quantifiable results are not only crucial to evaluating success, but they also can unlock the willingness—and the budget—to launch future advancement projects. We understand your industry and have the specific expertise to produce a return-on-investment study that proves the value of your efforts.
We work with you and your stakeholders before, during, and after the technical documentation process to devise a rubric for success, identify the optimal key performance indicators, and capture performance data for tailored reporting. The results are a documentation initiative better designed to meet your business objectives and a rock-solid business case with real-world data that proves organizational impact.
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