Document Creation Device Unit Document Group Reference Replacement
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Solution Overview
Problem
In industrial products, multiple models of the same type require manual updates, where common content changes need to be reflected across all models, but existing systems struggle with managing and sharing modified components effectively, leading to inefficiencies in document management and version control.
Innovation Solution
A document creation device that combines unit documents into organized documents, using a structure storage unit to analyze and replace group reference designators with unit document references, allowing for efficient management and sharing of common content across similar documents, even if link destinations differ.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual data is generated and managed for each product individually, then each product has its own complete manual, but correcting common content requires updating multiple products separately, increasing work量和时间
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments manual content into common portions (applicable to multiple products) and product-specific portions. Common content is extracted and stored separately as reusable components, allowing independent management and updating. When correction is needed, only the common portion needs to be updated once, and the change automatically reflects across all products that use it.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates universal common content components that can be referenced by multiple product manuals simultaneously. These common portions serve multiple functions across different products, so updating one universal component updates all referencing documents, eliminating the need for separate corrections for each product.
2Productivity
If componentized components are modified and shared across documents, then updating common content becomes easier, but it is difficult to grasp the extent of modification influence and manage corrected and uncorrected versions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism that automatically tracks and manages the influence of modifications. When a common portion is updated, the system automatically identifies all documents that reference it and manages the version propagation. This feedback loop provides visibility into the extent of modification influence without requiring manual tracking, and automatically handles corrected versus uncorrected versions across the document set.
3Adaptability or versatility
If references to other documents are embedded in product manuals, then cross-referencing is enabled, but when there are multiple similar documents with different reference destinations, it is necessary to create referencing documents containing as many reference destinations as the number of similar documents
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces common portions as intermediary elements between multiple product manuals and their reference destinations. Instead of creating direct references from each product manual to multiple destinations, the system uses shared common portions as mediators that contain the reference logic. This allows all products to reference the same common portion, which in turn manages references to the actual destinations, significantly reducing the number of reference destinations that need to be maintained.
Data Source
AI summary
This document creation device (10) divides common sections of documents of a plurality of diverse specifications into unit documents (100), manages and shares the unit documents, groups similar unit documents (100) and manages and stores the similar unit documents, couples unit documents to a set serving as one edited document on the basis of an edited document configuration (50), which is a list of unit documents coupling to the edited document, or couples the unit documents to an electronic file of one edited document, wherein, during said coupling, rewriting is performed such that, when referring to a group in which the content embedded in the unit documents is a set of unit documents, a document which belongs to the referenced group and which is included in the edited document configuration is referred to.