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    More than 300 industrial customers rely on Empolis

    Benefits of Knowledge Management in Manufacturing

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    shorter search times for information
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    Cost Savings Through Faster Ticket Processing
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    higher first-time fix rate

    Technical documentation is not a publishing project. It is knowledge management.

    The knowledge needed for good documentation exists, but it’s scattered across CCMS, PLM, tickets, PDFs, and the minds of experts. The result: time-consuming research, duplicate and contradictory content, and a high maintenance burden with every product change.

    Empolis combines the creation, optimization, and delivery of knowledge in a single platform. The Knowledge Graph and AI accelerate the work. Your editorial team retains technical responsibility.

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    Creating Knowledge​

    Get to verified content faster

    • Drafts from tickets, manuals, service reports, and videos

    • Modular DITA topics instead of monolithic manuals

    • Capture expert knowledge in a structured way and approve it editorially

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    Optimize Knowledge​

    Consistent, reusable, verifiable

    • Identify duplicates, inconsistencies, and terminology discrepancies

    • Content reuse instead of copy-and-paste, even across languages

    • Highlight the impact of product changes on topics

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    Provide Knowledge​

    The Right Information in Context

    • Delivery by product, variant, version, role, and error scenario

    • Content delivery portal, AI assistant, and service app—even offline

    • Standardized via iiRDS for portals and third-party systems

    Create once. Reuse strategically.

    With DITA, editorial teams work on a topic-based approach: content is created as standalone information units with metadata and is reused in various contexts. The Empolis editorial system is a component content management system for XML with a standard configuration for DITA, version and variant management, workflows, and translation management.

    • Work in your existing XML editor, with fragment search via metadata

    • Centrally maintain and reusetopicsand fragments, reducing redundancy and translation effort

    • Variants tailored to the product configuration, controlled via the Knowledge Graph and product data from PIM or ERP

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    AI as a Co-Author, Not a Replacement for Professional Responsibility

    Generative AI generates drafts, extracts knowledge, and checks for consistency. In doing so, it draws on approved company content and the knowledge graph rather than formulating content freely. Every statement includes a source citation, and every publication undergoes your approval.

    • Knowledge articles from tickets, service reports, manuals, and videos (Video to Knowledge)

    • Duplicate detection, terminology, and consistency checks

    • Support for translation and localization

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    The Right Information at the Right Time

    Instead of PDF manuals, users receive exactly the topic that matches their product, version, and role. The Knowledge Portal, serving as a content delivery portal, consolidates content from content management systems, legacy systems, and other sources using shared metadata. The Knowledge Graph builds navigation and faceted search capabilities and translates users’ terminology into the editorial classification system.

    • iiRDS metadata and packages for cross-vendor exchange

    • Synchronize metadata from PIM or ERP systems instead of maintaining it from scratch

    • AI assistant with source attribution; service app also available offline

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    Trust and Standards

    AI Your Editorial Team Can Trust

    In technical writing, a step that sounds plausible but is actually incorrect can have serious consequences. That’s why Empolis relies on Trustworthy AI: explainable, traceable, and compliant with regulations. Developed and operated in Germany.

    Source-based, not made up

    Answers are based on validated company content and the Knowledge Graph. Every generated answer cites its sources.

    The editorial team retains control

    AI makes suggestions; humans review and approve them. Changes are versioned and traceable.

    Roles, Permissions, Auditability

    Role-based access and documented workflows ensure that each person sees only what has been approved for them.

    Technical Documentation Standards

    Open standards protect your investment and prevent siloed solutions.

    • DITA: Structured, Topic-Based Authoring

    • iiRDS: Metadata and Package Format for Intelligent Information

    Set new standards yourself

    Book a demo

    In a personalized demo, you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about the features and have an expert answer your specific questions. Together, you’ll discuss your specific use case and the possibilities that AI-based knowledge management can offer you.

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    Let's discuss your needs in detail! Together, we'll address the most important questions regarding knowledge management and explore the benefits of making your organization's experiential knowledge available to the entire team.