What is Arbortext?
Arbortext is a family of integrated products that help organizations repurpose engineering data for technical communication across manufacturing, service, sales, and other key stakeholder groups. The full suite of products equips technical publications teams with the tools to rapidly create and manage XML text and visual content, manage content inside Windchill, and publish finished content in any media for any audience.
Why Arbortext?
The world’s most sophisticated organizations across industrial equipment manufacturers, automakers, federal, aerospace and defense projects, and electronics and high-tech companies use Arbortext to:
- Create and maintain technical documentation and parts catalogs.
- Deliver technical content to stakeholders in the right context.
The Arbortext difference:
- Designed for technical publications standards such as DITA and S-Series.
- Writers don’t have to be XML experts to adhere to form and scheme, allowing for easier SME contribution.
- Illustrations and metadata can be pulled directly from CAD stored in Windchill, allowing content to have a direct link to product information.
- Managing content components in Windchill allows for more efficient change management and automation.
- Content delivery is contextualized to the product and the end user.
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Increase in authoring productivity
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In reduced translation costs
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Increase in parts revenue
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Increase in first time fix rates
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Reduction in unplanned downtime
Arbortext benefits across the value chain
As a result, companies using Arbortext increase authoring productivity, lower publication costs, and guarantee high-quality outcomes in service, manufacturing, and other areas downstream from engineering.
Technical publications
Field and depot service
Product development and product engineering
Manufacturing and assembly
Sales and marketing
Key features of Arbortext
Robust XML authoring
Compliance and standards-ready
Excel in topic-based authoring with DITA, and large-scale aerospace and defense projects with S1000D.
Style sheet creation
Design and manage stylesheets to control the look and feel of published content across multiple formats.
Advanced layout development
Build complex, professional layouts for print and digital outputs with precise control over formatting and structure.
CAD-based 3D illustration
Integrate 3D CAD models directly into documentation for interactive, visual-rich technical content.
2D technical drawing
Incorporate detailed 2D illustrations to enhance clarity and accuracy in technical documents.
Component-based content management
Manage content as modular components for easy reuse, updates, and consistency across documents.
Multiformat publishing
Publish content in multiple formats—PDF, HTML, mobile, and more—from a single source.
Service bill of materials
Link service documentation to product configurations using accurate, up-to-date service BOMs.
Customer success with Arbortext
Learn now these companies are using Arbortext to improve productivity and product information delivery.
Kirloskar Oil Engines
Design for serviceability: Improving technician effectiveness and service performance at Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited
KOEL
KOEL improved productivity and reduced requests for cancellations of late-stage engineering changes from 10% to 2% by using PTC solutions to complete a BOM transformation.
TORO
Toro uses Creo Illustrate to increase illustrator efficiency, end-user comprehension
U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy is undergoing digital transformation to unify legacy systems and support their massive base of users, suppliers, and ships by using Windchill’s cloud infrastructure, collaboration capabilities, and comprehensive SaaS workflows.
Ronchi Packaging Machinery
Ronchi provides outstanding customer service through an end-to-end digital transformation featuring the Arbortext content delivery system.
Explore Arbortext products
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Arbortext authoring and publishing
Create structured XML content, design style sheets, and publish across channels—all from a single platform.<br />
Creo Illustrate
Turn CAD models into interactive 3D visuals—no drawing skills required—for service and assembly instructions.<br />
Arbortext IsoDraw
Convert CAD data into precise 2D technical illustrations for reuse in service and manufacturing.<br />
Windchill Service Information & Service Parts
<span style="color: black;">Manage service content and parts catalogs in sync with engineering data—all within your PLM system.</span><br />
Arbortext Content Delivery
<span style="color: black;">Deliver the right content to the right user, on demand—scalable, searchable, and always up to date.</span><br />