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Peugeot
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Diadeis Mission
The PSA Group, through Peugeot Automobile (PA), commissions DIADEIS to produce the user guides for all its vehicles. To do so, DIADEIS has set up a flow management cell, developed a database to handle the information contained in the guides, and carries out all pre-press language preparations. The flow management system covers all documents relating to user guides and concerns all intermediaries from author to printer.
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Process
Writing in the source language
Creation or update of illustrations
Page layout of the source language version
Translation
Page layout of all other language versions
Copy editing
Incorporation of corrections
Printing go-ahead
Printing
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Technology
1 centralised ORACLE 8i database
1 Access database, VB interface, Apache PLSQL, XML language, Tags, Point Net architecture, Unicode environment. A collaborative document exchange tool has been implemented.
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Human resources
Engineering:
One project manager
One project leader
One development engineer
One training instructor"
Flow management:
Two people
Production:
Two production managers
Two manufacturing superintendents
A dedicated production staff of 50 people
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Volume
100,000 pages composed per year
20 sets of driver documentation per year
28 languages handled
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Main challenge
The main challenge is to produce user guides at the lowest cost and with a quick turnaround in spite of an increase in the number of languages and amount of information described.
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Input
Source language mock-up and translations in Microsoft Word documents.
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Output
Printer's PDF files for all driver documentation.
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Result
Peugeot is able to update and produce its user guides in very tight delays whils decreasing the costs. In addition, the quality of the user guides progressed thanks to the centralised management of its different language versions.
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