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With Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) you can take your technical documentation to the next level. IETMs provide full search facilities and alternative methods of navigation to help your users to locate the information they need quickly and easily.
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Website Design and Construction 


Websites can deliver so much more than a basic brochure site. Orchid has the technical ability, design flare and hosting facilities to design, build and deliver a website that meets your needs. In addition to corporate brochure sites Orchid can deliver e-commerce functionality, web applications and content management systems.
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Computer Based Training 


Computer Based Training delivers many advantages over the usual chalk and talk training course, especially for technical training involving for geographically dispersed and busy people. Orchid can design, write, build and deliver a complete training environment, with intuitive and resourceful learning modules. The systems can run on your own network or over the Internet – ensuring your learners achieve their learning objective.
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Plant Operating and Training
Manuals that Operators Need 


Whether your plant is an oil and gas platform, a refinery, an LNG terminal or a waste water treatment plant, the operators need to be trained to understand the processes and equipment. They then need clear operating procedures to follow. Orchid have been producing training manuals and operating procedures manuals for these important facilities, around the world, for decades.
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Product User Guides
that Users Want 


You have a great product but for it to be used successfully by your customers it needs good user documentation. From factory machines to hand tools, Orchid have a team of authors and support staff that will write and produce the user manuals your users want, not forgetting the tick for that all important CE mark.
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Technical Publications

Orchid will help you to communicate your technical information in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner and can then help you update and maintain your publications.

At Orchid, we write and produce technical publications for some of the most demanding industry sectors that include oil and gas, water, telecoms, shipping, information technology, education, manufacturing, retail and construction.

We provide a bespoke service to our customers
to write and produce their technical documentation.
Our customers come to us because they recognise that we have
the necessary skills and experience to create their technical
manuals. We also assist our customers to produce
foreign language versions of their publications.
Technical publications can
be paper based, such as a printed manual, or a computer file
viewed on a computer screen. Regardless of which delivery
method is required, we have the ability to deliver. Call
us now and we could soon be discussing your requirements
and helping you with your technical publications.		 Illustrated Instruction Technical Manual

Finished Article and Delivery

Technical Documentation Technical ManualTechnical manuals come in all shapes and sizes. At Orchid, we take care to ensure that the finished article is delivered exactly the way our customers want. We can deliver printed manuals; provide them electronically by e-mail; on CD-ROM; DVD or Web Download.
Our in-house printing facilities mean that we can produce manuals in full colour, backed-up, punched, bound and any size up to A3

We use the latest industry standard tools to create and design documentation that satisfies our customer’s requirement. We make sure that the final document is fit for purpose and

  • contains important information required
  • includes drawings and illustrations where appropriate
  • has the necessary procedures or process descriptions
  • is accurate and can be easily understood by the reader
  • is consistent in terms of level of detail and writing style
  • conforms to the agreed standards
  • is written to the stated specification
  • is consistent with regard to naming conventions
  • complies with the agreed quality control procedures

Document Maintenance

Maintenance is an important part of the technical manual lifecycle. At Orchid, we specialise in updating and maintaining documents. Our quality control procedures and good practices ensure the integrity of documents, which are stored on our secure servers.

Documentation Store

For some customers, we provide and maintain an online document store that is available worldwide. Our customers have secure access to the latest versions of their documents held on our servers.

To speak to our technical publications expert, call us on 01763 255101. Alternatively, use our call back service, and we will call you.