Technical Illustration

CAM technical illustrators have the hands-on experience and technical background to comprehend difficult engineering data and to understand the components they illustrate. Occasionally, we are asked to create accurate illustrations from nothing more than hardware pictures and interviews with the designer/engineer. Our technical illustrators are both technical and illustrators. Many have engineering and technician backgrounds. If you come to visit us, you’ll easily see that they really enjoy the art and science of technical illustration.

Key Benefits

• Accurate, detailed illustrations help maintenance tasks
• Illustrations can be used for trainings purposes
• All formats supported
• All vector graphics delivered to you digitally for your future use.
• Capabilities

CAM can produce the following illustrations along with many others:

• Isometric exploded-view illustrations
• Photo tracings for maintenance and “how to” instruction
• Color renderings
• Cutaway views

CAM can produce the following illustrations along with many others:

Template Design

Template development has always been at the heart of CAM, Inc. enabling us to achieve our goal of total service provision for Acrobat, FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML. Our experience in ATA iSPEC 2200 documents has allowed us to develop many pre-approved templates that can be edited to match any preferred publishing solution. Many of our publishing systems are based on Adobe products, which we enhance with plug-ins and add-ons to address the demands of special requirements.

The PDF format is ideal for interactive online product catalogues that can be distributed on the Web, in print, or both. It is useful for providing easy access to legacy information and for archiving electronic documents.

Our templates, combined with training and support, incorporate good practice and provide advanced techniques to ensure documents and books can be maintained and updated efficiently in the future. It ensures that the power of FrameMaker is fully utilized. This will increase cost efficiency throughout your organization and publication process.

To find out how we can make your document publishing more efficient and cost effective – call us today for a no obligation meeting.

Key Benefits

• Time savings due to efficient tools.
• Measurable cost savings due to reuse of previously validated information and procedures.
• Time can be spent on accurate and useful technical content rather than on style and formatting issues.

Engineering Support

Here at CAM, we understand when things get busy, you just want someone to help “Get the job done.” We can do that. Whether it be minor edits and proofing on Acceptance Test Procedures, Qualification reports, etc. or writing the procedures themselves. We can work independently or as part of your team to help get the project finished. We can come and work on site, or remotely, whichever you prefer.

Key Benefits

• Adding additional staff temporarily to get that big project out while keeping costs down.
• Outsourcing converts fixed costs into variable costs, releases capital for investment elsewhere in your business, and allows you to avoid the time consuming and often large expenditures of “staffing up.”
• Hiring and training staff for short-term or peripheral projects can be very expensive, and temporary employees don’t always live up to your expectations. Outsourcing lets you focus your human resources where you need them most.

Overflow Support

If you have a project that needs to be completed and would like to explore the possibility of getting the help you need to get the job done with no long term commitment, we can do that. Whether you require a writer, editor, illustrator, or administrative help, CAM can provide the extra help you need to get the project completed.

Key Benefits

• Respond to immediate needs at a moment’s notice.
• Provide temporary workers to be placed at your workplace or perform specialized tasks per your liking, remotely.
• Perform skill assessments to ensure that we are drawing from a qualified pool of candidates for your position.
• Pay workers daily, weekly, by assignment, or quote firm fixed price per job.

Consultancy

The rapid development of new software and changing requirements are providing you with ever increasing technical publication hurdles, in the way documents are produced and delivered. In order to exploit these opportunities for your business ­ you need to talk us, because we’ll provide impartial advice that will guide you through the maze of solutions available, so you can make an informed decision going forward.

In addition, we can support our recommendations with training for your staff, provide them with help and support, sort out software licenses and on-going maintenance and even assist you to outsource your documentation if that is a preferred option.

Key Benefits

• We’ll give you an informed analysis of your current publishing provisions
• Provide a proposal explaining the options available and our recommendations
• Show time and cost efficiency
• Give expert guidance on implementing your preferred solution.

Scanning/Digitizing

Our high speed scanning process is recognized as a leader in helping departments succeed in archiving legacy data. With this process we can very quickly and accurately turn printed documents and publications into electronic format so that your staff can access them with digitally and search through the contents.

CAM provides leading-edge document conversion and reformatting solutions to libraries, archives, aerospace and commercial clients. CAM’s conversion services include digital document imaging, document and image reformatting, microfilm and microfiche digitizing.

Key Benefits

• Digital document imaging empowers your information by ‘lifting’ it from the paper as a digital image that can be efficiently stored and easily distributed over networks and even the Internet.
• Imaging allows you to bring the information to you instead of you having to go to it.
• And while more than one person can access the same information concurrently, nobody can remove or misfile the documents or folders from their proper location in the system.
• The digital images can be indexed and searched many different ways using powerful search engines. Information embedded within the documents can be processed for use with many other applications. It is even possible to link the digital images to other computer applications for tight integration of all of your business information.

Training

CAM helps companies build customized technical documentation templates with the knowledge to keep them current and the ability to change them for any future needs. CAM also offers hands-on training in the creation and development of structured and and non-structured documentation.

We develop training for all major delivery modes and media, including classroom training, web-based and multimedia training, as well as blended approaches that align particular learning and business needs with different delivery formats.

Key Benefits

• We provide professional, knowledgeable stand-up instructors to deliver your training at your offices and facilities. We ensure that instructors are knowledgeable in your subject matter and demonstrate exemplary delivery skills.
• In support of your training, we develop complete sets of reference manuals, participant workbooks, web resources, presentation slides, instructor guides, job aids, worksheets and other support materials.