https://www.famispa.com/en/
Industrial and design components
Scope of activity: international market
https://www.facco.net/it
Machinery and Packaging
Scope of activity: international market
Marketing Manager di FAAC Spa
I have been pushing and promoting EKR in the company since the beginning.
Ours is a product list of around 400 pages. Before now we set it in Italian, then we moved on to other languages, with long manual checks of codes, prices, translations…
With EKR, completed Italian, we quickly realize 35 versions: language variants, but also different configurations, with different specifications. We have significantly increased our productivity. We dreamed of all these catalogs once!
Furthermore, when there is a change to be made, we only execute it once and in a single database, and soon the product is ready for all other countries.
For marketing the graphics are fundamental: for the moment we are satisfied with the results obtained, then we will see when we will make the restyling that we are planning.
The relationship with EKR has improved over time, we started one way but then we fixed the road. The project has grown along with the potential of the program: a natural evolution.
EKR advice to all! is a system that could help any company, but you need to have a clear initial strategy. It must be clear what you want because it requires a considerable change of mentality.
Solutions for automation and access control and parking management
Scope of activity: international market
Owner of Docutec Srl
EKR means a margin of error of almost zero, in addition to saving time.
Compared to the past, the technical documentation today has a very different value.
Machinery is increasingly complex, not only do I have to learn to use it well, but if I don’t write the right phrase someone gets hurt or ends up in court.
We make highly personalized technical maintenance and usage documents translated into at least 8 languages, but we also get up to 20. We used InDesign with very powerful scripts to try to automate a piece of work.
With EKR we manage a single master from which to derive everything, even with different graphic templates, is a very flexible tool.
We have learned to produce better content to be able to catalog well, optimize and recover data.
Writing better is a great advantage: the information must never be ambiguous but always clearly understandable.
We are a technical base, in Docutec we “force” the program and put it to the test: EKR is an open system, potentially without limits. For us it is a tool that allows you to do practically anything you want.
It is certainly complex: an entry level user if not placed in the correct manner takes fear, if maybe he worked in Word then … I think it is difficult to propose: we must not be scared and be predisposed to change.
I can say that we were born together with EKR: ours is a very family approach!
Solutions for the drafting, creation and management of technical manuals
Scope of activity: international market
HVAC&R
Scope of activity: international market
Solutions for water treatment and dosing of chemical products
Scope of activity: international market
Automotive
Scope of activity: international market
Attention to design, refinement of materials and advanced technologies are the elements that have distinguished Elica on the market for over 40 years and that have allowed the company to revolutionize the traditional image of kitchen hoods for domestic use.
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Given the complexity of the catalogs, Elica did not have a flexible tool for communicating its products.
The production of the catalogs was customized for the many markets in which the company operated and for the different customers; this results in a diversity of ranges, codes, contents and languages.
The production of the catalogs was very complex and also subordinated to the demands of the market.
This implied an adaptation to the specific needs of the customers, speed of realization and constant alignment of the contents.
There was also the need to have the information in an organized database that could also be consulted by non-experts.
class=”Titoletto_2L”>With EKR-PE the most complete cross-media solution
After a careful analysis of the data to be published and of the internal information flow, EKR-PE was configured to act as a collector / container of information coming from various sources (laboratory, technical office, marketing office).
The data is organized within two Excel tables that are reprocessed and imported into EKR-PE.
The columns of the tables are automatically hidden according to the reference market and the information is filtered and recombined.
The EKR-PE system was set up in Elica as a priority to cope with the production of printed product catalogs for distribution.
A possible development could be to integrate product web pages and manuals.
class=”Lista_trattino”>Data structure organized in a searchable database.
More effective reorganization of the workflow.
Achievement of many variations of a very complex catalog.
Significant reduction in the production times of the different versions of the catalog.
World leader hoods for domestic use
Scope of activity: international market
Marketing Manager of Elesa Spa
Before EKR there was a lot of manual work to do.
We had a database that exported data and then worked with InDesign. The work was really expensive because it had to be repeated by hand for all other languages.
The challenge was to be able to layout a catalogue of thousands of product pages, several of which required the integration of special content, which meant that the standard page structure had to be modified. EKR ORCHESTRA is made precisely for this, even if we had to take it to the limit and ask for additional functionality to achieve the goal. The goal is indeed to completely eliminate manual intervention, and we are very close to this result.
It was a complex project that took a lot of time and energy. Initially, for example, we couldn’t manage the most particular cards: now it is running smoothly and we have really limited the final touches a lot. Not to mention that the same information also has to flow onto the web. With EKR ORCHESTRA we managed to automate a good part of the process, and that was the focus.
with Federica Sena, Marketing Department of Elesa Spa
For translations EKR ORCHESTRA is really handy.
We used to write more freehand. Now, however, we try to pursue a certain consistency due to the system that pushes to maintain a certain uniformity in both the phrases that are repeated for different products and the choice of terminology. With EKR ORCHESTRA we produce similar, more standardised informationin order to be able to quickly reuse the translations.
Industrial components
Scope of activity: international market
Large kitchen facilities
Scope of activity: international market
