Manuals /catalogues should be identified per job description. They must be updated and checked to ensure their content is updated. Manuals /catalogues should be stored properly to avoid damage.
TYPES OF MANUAL
Operator Manual is called owner’s manual, instructional book, and handbook. It shows how to safely operate and use a machine. Usually it includes basic maintenance, safety information and specifications.
Parts Manual is also called parts book, parts catalog, or spare parts list, used by representatives or dealer. It contains exploded of all parts, their relationship and location. Usually it includes the part number and their brief description.
Service Manual is also called shop, repair, workshop and technical manual. Some of the types are very detailed while some are shortened versions or specific areas of repair –ex. Hydraulic system only.
APPLICATION OF MANUALS/SPECIFICATION
An owner’s manual (also called instruction manual) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer product such as vehicles, appliances and computer peripherals. Information contained in the owners’ manual typically includes:
Safety instructions; for liability reasons these can be extensive, often including warning against doing things that no intelligent person would consider doing.
Assembly instruction; for products to arrive in pieces for easier shipping. • Installation instruction; for production that need to be installed in home workplace
Setup instructions; for devices that keep track of time or which maintain user accessible state
Normal usage instructions
Programming instructions; for microprocessor controlled product such as VCRs, programmable calculators and synthesizers
Maintenance instructions.
Troubleshooting instruction; when the product does not work as expected.
Service Location; when the product requires repair by a factory authorized technician.
Regulatory code compliance information; for example with respect to safety or electromagnetic interference.
Product technical specifications.
Warranty information; sometimes provided as a separate sheet.
Until the last decade or two of the twentieth century it was common for an owner’s manual to include detailed repair information, such as a circuit diagram. However, as products became more complex this information was gradually relegated to specialized service manual, or dispensed with entirely , as devices became too inexpensive to be economically repaired.
Owner manuals for simpler devices are often multilingual so that the same boxed product can be solved in many different markets. Sometimes the same manual is shipped with a range of related products so the manual will contain a number of sections that apply only to some particular model in the product range.
is a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular written by a technical writer, although user guides could be written by programmers, product or project managers, or other technical staff, particularly in small companies.
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