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In the demanding environment of offshore drilling, precision in communication is not merely beneficial; it is fundamental to operational safety and strict compliance. Shufrans TechDocs partnered with Maersk Drilling Maintenance Support (MDMS) to address this critical need by providing comprehensive support in Simplified Technical English (STE).

Over 20 personnel from MDMS participated in this transformative programme, which was designed to significantly improve their technical writing standard and enhance overall clarity in documentation for end-users.

How STE Improves Safety and Compliance

The offshore drilling industry operates with complex machinery and high-risk procedures. Ambiguity in technical documentation can lead to severe consequences. STE directly tackles these challenges by:

• Reducing Ambiguity: STE’s controlled vocabulary and stringent writing rules eliminate phrases that can have multiple interpretations. This ensures that critical instructions, whether in maintenance procedures or safety guidelines, are understood uniformly by every individual, regardless of their native language or technical background, thereby minimising human error.
• Improving Clarity for Critical Procedures: By enforcing concise sentences, active voice, and a single instruction per sentence, STE makes complex procedural steps easy to follow. In high-pressure situations on a rig, such clear, unambiguous steps are vital for correct and safe execution.
• Ensuring Consistency: STE promotes the consistent use of terminology for equipment, processes, and actions across all documentation. This reduces confusion, streamlines training, and makes it simpler for personnel to find and apply correct information, which is also crucial for regulatory compliance.
• Facilitating Compliance: Many industry standards and regulations implicitly or explicitly require clear, unambiguous documentation. Adhering to STE allows companies to more easily demonstrate compliance, reducing the risk of non-conformance and associated penalties.
• Streamlining Audits and Investigations: In the event of an incident, clear and consistently written documentation is essential for accurate investigations. STE-compliant documents make it easier to trace actions, understand procedures, and identify root causes, supporting both compliance efforts and continuous improvement.
• Enhancing Equipment Service Descriptions (CMMS): STE principles directly support the creation of precise and consistent equipment service descriptions for Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS). As per Maersk Drilling’s guidelines (e.g., Process Instructions), these descriptions must be accurate, consistent, and limited to 40 characters, structured by elements such as Noun, Type, Function, Main Equipment/System, and Physical Location. STE’s emphasis on controlled vocabulary, direct language, and conciseness significantly aids in:
  • Achieving Brevity and Precision: STE’s rules promote succinct phrasing, helping adhere to character limits while maintaining clarity.
  • Standardising Terminology: By using approved words consistently for nouns, types, and functions, STE ensures descriptions are uniform, improving searchability and avoiding duplicates in the CMMS.
  • Eliminating Ambiguity: Clear, unambiguous language guarantees that each component of the description is understood precisely, which is critical for accurate equipment identification and effective maintenance planning.

Relevance Across Job Roles

The STE standard proved highly relevant for various specialists within MDMS, directly impacting their daily tasks:

• Marine Superintendents: Gained clarity in documentation related to vessel stability, mooring operations, and navigational procedures, reducing the risk of errors in critical marine operations.
• Technical Coordinators: Benefitted from unambiguous documentation for planning and overseeing maintenance, ensuring correct parts procurement and procedure execution, thus optimising uptime and reducing costly rework.
• Equipment Support Coordinators: Found STE invaluable for understanding equipment specifications, troubleshooting guides, and spare parts information, leading to more efficient equipment sourcing and improved support for the rigs. This also directly applies to creating and interpreting precise CMMS equipment service descriptions.
• Senior Superintendents: As leaders of operational teams, STE provided the linguistic consistency needed to ensure their crews understood and followed procedures perfectly, fostering a culture of safety and precision.
• Technical Inspectors: For inspection protocols and reporting, STE ensured that observations and requirements were recorded with absolute clarity, leaving no room for misinterpretation during audits or follow-up actions.

Key Inspection Standards Enhanced by STE

Beyond general procedures, Shufrans TechDocs’ STE training also covered specific inspection methodologies crucial for maintaining offshore rig integrity, as exemplified in Maersk Drilling’s Valve Overhaul documentation. Clarity in these areas directly impacts safety and compliance:

• API (American Petroleum Institute) Requirements/Reporting: In the context of critical equipment like well control components, adherence to API standards is paramount. STE ensures that all well control equipment failures are reported to the OEM precisely and accurately, as mandated by API guidelines. This systematic reporting fosters industry-wide learning and continuous safety improvements.
• LPI (Liquid Penetrant Inspection): This Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) method is used to identify surface-breaking flaws such as cracks or porosity in non-porous materials. During valve overhauls, STE ensures the step-by-step instructions for performing LPI (e.g., on valve components after cleaning) are crystal clear, guaranteeing accurate detection of defects that could compromise safety.
• MPI (Magnetic Particle Inspection): Another vital NDT technique, MPI detects surface and near-surface flaws in ferromagnetic materials. For steel valve components, STE ensures that instructions for conducting MPI are unambiguous, allowing inspectors to precisely identify hidden defects. The clear documentation of these procedures is critical for preventing in-service failures of high-pressure components.

Improved Document Types

Shufrans TechDocs specifically focused on enhancing the following crucial document types for offshore rigs:

• Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs) / Standard Job Procedures (SJPs): This included critical well control procedures, paramount for managing well pressure and preventing blowouts, where absolute clarity is non-negotiable for safety.
• Well Control Equipment PM (Preventative Maintenance) documents: Ensuring that maintenance on vital well control equipment is performed correctly and consistently, which directly impacts equipment reliability and overall safety.
• General Maintenance Instructions: Improving the clarity of routine and complex repair procedures for various rig equipment, making operations more efficient and less prone to error.

The support programme included three intensive on-site STE workshops and half a year of dedicated on-site technical writing assistance, demonstrating Shufrans TechDocs’ commitment to long-term client success. By implementing STE, MDMS has significantly enhanced its technical communication, contributing to a safer, more efficient, and more compliant operational environment.

Ready to transform your technical documentation for enhanced safety and compliance? Contact Shufrans TechDocs today to learn how our specialised STE training and support can benefit your organisation.

🗓️ View our training calendar.

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Summary

Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, is a cloud computing company. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. As the cloud computing arm and business unit of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN).

Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled language that is used to create technical content and documentation that are more easily understood by an international audience. While it makes sense to try to describe complex processes using Simplified Technical English, the paradigm shift is not always an easy one and technical writers would require formal training in STE at least.

This article shares in more detail how the Alibaba Cloud Content & Globalisation team can potentially benefit from the use of a controlled language like STE to offer outstanding local technical service capabilities to their customers. 

Process pain points

Existing documents are usually translated from Mandarin Chinese. Unclear information in the source language will often obscure the meaning in the corresponding English translation. To improve the quality of translation in the English text, it is therefore necessary to rewrite the content in its entirety. This is because keeping the original sentence and paragraph structure while trying to apply sound STE writing principles will make the technical writer’s job in this case extremely difficult. A crucial point to keep in mind is to ensure that all necessary information in the original document is faithfully rewritten in STE.

When everyone is required to clarify what the original content means before writing as well as appreciate the actual working principles behind, we are definitely going to see quality improvements! Alibaba Cloud Writer’s post-training feedback.

 

Based on feedback from technical writers, while writing in Standard English offers them the flexibility to keep information vague but convincing, the original technical content is not always complete or accurate. Clearly, this has changed when technical writers favour the use of a controlled language like Simplified Technical English over Standard English. Restrictions on word usage, sentence structure, and sentence lengths have compelled writers to rewrite their documents and present information with clarity and much less ambiguity. This is based on the premise that technical writers already possess a firm understanding of their products and services. In this manner, they can do away with the original formulation in Chinese, then describe the use of their products and services in a user-friendly way with the help of STE.

The customer’s journey

As is the practice in many companies worldwide, documents were created at the development stage before reaching techdocs. Vague wording, style, and tone of voice from Standard English have gradually influenced the way technical writers communicate with their audience in the long run. Consequently, it becomes challenging to fully distill the meaning behind technical content unless the user spends more time in reading the documentation again. This is a situation that could have been mitigated if technical writers clarified the content with the original content writers from the outset and started writing in STE sentences.

How the STE specification drives cohesion and consistency within technical writing teams

Because of vocabulary and writing rules standardisation, technical writers become more consistent on a word level that starts with the simple fact that they are going to use the same word whenever they refer to the same thing. This is especially important for a diverse team where the levels of language proficiencies and and understanding for technology are not the same. Here, STE may be the key to balance.

**Course fee includes exercises, learning aids, certificate of completion, and 90-day post-training support.

Summary

Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled language that is used to write technical manuals in such a way that they can be more easily understood by an international audience. STE helps to make translations cheaper and more accurate. Often a formal requirement for aircraft and defence maintenance documentation, STE can easily be adapted to all technical industries and beyond. Ms. Shumin Chen will teach participants how to correctly and effectively use STE in practice. She will also address some of the mistakes commonly found in technical writing and the frequently incorrect use of common STE writing rules.

Course outline*

• Day 1: Classroom Training
  1. Practical overview of Simplified Technical English
  2. How STE helps both native & non-native speakers of English
  3. Benefits of adopting the STE international writing standard
  4. Writing rules and how to apply them in practice
  5. How to use the general vocabulary.
  6. Approved and non-approved words discussion and the rationale behind.

• Day 2: Application, Review, & Exercises
  1. How to deal with industry-specific terminology
  2. How to use STE for various documentation types
  3. How to implement STE with minimal disruption to on-going production and existing documentation
  4. Practical workshop session for applying STE rules to your own documents
  5. Review, edit, and discuss participants’ own documents to reinforce learning
  6. Classroom presentation of own documents.

* Shufrans also offers customised ASD-STE100 training solutions tailored to meet your specific requirements. These courses are normally provided at the customer’s premises.

I’ve found all the rules introduced in this workshop equally valuable and applicable in my field of work. The ASD-STE100 Specification is very useful for searching examples and finding STE compliant alternatives. It was also great that we has such a large number of practical exercises. Personally, it would be more valuable to have more context available. This helps us judge how to apply STE optimally. Thank you Shumin! Your workshop was concise, clear, and pragmatic. I also liked the occasional humour! 🙂 Diane Goodrick, Information Architect/ Author Trainer, Schindler Group.

Who should attend?

• Compliance managers
• CIO, COO, CTO
• Customer support managers
• Documentation managers
• Editors
• Engineering managers
• Engineers and SMEs who create documentation
• Graphics specialists
• ILS managers
• Maintenance managers
• Operation managers
• Product managers
• Project managers
• Quality managers
• Software research engineers
• Technical illustrators
• Technical writers
• Translation managers
• Translators

What training outcomes to expect?

Our interactive training, exercises and workshop, will teach participants to standardise content to:

• Author more efficiently
• Communicate more effectively with a global audience
• Improve operational safety
• Reduce AOG / downtime
• Facilitate modular writing and reuse
• Facilitate teamwork
• Facilitate translation
• Maximise consistency
• Optimise product lifecycle support
• Reduce the cost of creating and maintaining technical publications

Trainer’s qualifications

Ms. Shumin Chen, principal trainer & consultant at Shufrans TechDocs received her professional on-the-job training in the field of STE under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a linguist and documentation expert. Together as an experienced global team, they provided their combined knowledge and dedication to benefit customers worldwide. To date, they have provided training and consultancy services to over 180 companies. Shufrans TechDocs is the only company with such vast experience in providing certified STE training.

Shumin has supported various companies with their STE and other documentation needs, based on standards where possible. Although STE was developed for the aerospace industry, more specifically for aircraft maintenance documentation, Shumin found that it made a lot of sense to apply the same principles to other industries and types of documents as well. Few -if any- changes to the specification are necessary to adapt STE to industries ranging from machinery to IT, automotive to medical equipment.

The Challenge: Uncompromising Clarity in Defence Communications

NIMR, a leading manufacturer of wheeled military vehicles and a pivotal subsidiary within the UAE’s advanced technology and defence group, EDGE, operates in an environment where clarity is not merely beneficial—it is critical. The precision of technical documentation directly impacts the operational readiness, safety, and effectiveness of defence assets in demanding environments.

NIMR faced the challenge of ensuring that all its technical and support communications, from maintenance manuals to field service reports and customer interactions, adhered to an uncompromising standard of clarity and consistency. This was particularly complex given the diverse roles involved in creating and delivering this information, and the crucial requirement to translate documents accurately between English and Arabic for various customers and end-users:

• Customer Support Officers: Needing to convey precise solutions and guidance efficiently to end-users, often in both English and Arabic.
• Field Engineers & Technicians: Requiring unambiguous instructions for maintenance, troubleshooting, and on-site support of complex military vehicles, with the knowledge that these would be translated.
• Technical Writers & Documentation Experts (from various backgrounds): Tasked with authoring and managing a vast array of critical technical content, with a direct impact on the quality of subsequent translations.

Any ambiguity could lead to misinterpretations in critical operational contexts, potentially compromising safety, delaying field repairs, impacting training effectiveness, or introducing errors during the English-Arabic translation process. NIMR sought a solution that would embed a culture of precise communication directly within their operational teams, with a clear benefit to their multilingual documentation needs.

The Results: A New Standard for Operational Clarity and Multilingual Efficiency

By investing in on-site ASD-STE100 training with Shufrans TechDocs, NIMR achieved significant, measurable improvements in its technical and support communications:

• Enhanced Operational Clarity: A unified approach to language drastically minimised ambiguities in all forms of documentation, directly improving the understanding and execution of critical procedures by both internal teams and external customers.
• Improved Field Efficiency: Field Engineers could more effectively diagnose issues and follow maintenance protocols, reducing downtime and ensuring rapid response in operational scenarios.
• Streamlined Customer Support: Customer Support Officers provided clearer, more concise guidance, leading to reduced resolution times and enhanced customer satisfaction.
• Boosted Documentation Quality: Technical Writers and Documentation Experts consistently produced high-quality, compliant content, streamlining workflows and reducing rework.
• Optimised Translation Processes: With a consistent and unambiguous English source text, the translation of documents into Arabic became faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective, ensuring seamless communication with diverse customer bases.
• Accelerated Professional Growth: The hands-on training significantly upskilled personnel across critical roles, fostering a collective commitment to precision communication and supporting their long-term professional development within the defence sector.
• Strengthened Communication Chain: A common language standard facilitated seamless information exchange between engineering, documentation, field support, and translation teams, underpinning NIMR’s commitment to delivering superior defence solutions globally.

NIMR’s proactive investment in on-site STE training with Shufrans TechDocs has transformed its communication landscape, reinforcing its position as a leader in defence manufacturing through unparalleled clarity, operational excellence, and enhanced multilingual capabilities. This success story underscores the vital role of targeted communication training in ensuring readiness and reliability for critical industries operating on a global scale.

If your organisation faces similar challenges in achieving uncompromising clarity and operational readiness through precise communication, especially when translation between English and Arabic is a key requirement, discover how Shufrans TechDocs can help. Learn more about our ASD-STE100 training and consulting services:

🗓️ View our training calendar.

www.shufrans.com

我们提供的，不止是培训

1. 如果你是manager……你是否担忧员工英文报告的书写质量？
2. 如果你是工程师……别说跟老外开会，平时写个验收报告都要挠头？
3. 如果你从事技术传播……是否常常感到难以完美表达复杂的技术概念？

如果你正面临这样的问题，那么，你需要了解这次在上海举办的STE培训！

STE，即Simplified  Technical English，简明技术英语

对于英语为母语和非母语人群来说，在您为全球读者撰写内容时，STE都是提高您技术英语语言能力的高效平台。

如果说CMS工具为你解决格式难题，那么STE将带来内容质量的保证！

• 从文档工程师的角度：受控语言，规范用词、句法，提高技术内容的可读性和安全性
• 工程师/程序员：帮助书写test case、tech doc、甚至邮件的规范性、易读性，提高沟通效率，减少误会发生，改观全局印象
• 从翻译/翻译PM/本地化工程师角度：辅助翻译记忆库/术语库建立，压缩体量，降低翻译成本，加快交期
• 从本地化/论文公司角度：深入了解STE这一国际受控英语语言标准，完善提供业务 portfolio

主办方

Shufrans Techdocs

提供全面技术文档服务的供应商，ASD-STE100简明技术英语培训和咨询的全球领先公司。通过与我们的合作伙伴共同努力，为您实现面向未来的信息管理环境，提高工作效率和精准度

https://www.shufrans-techdocs.com/

TC互联

Talent of Content。基于上海的技术交流专用平台。TC互联致力于为技术交流者提供专业的发展、沟通和合作平台。通过服务范围的扩展，覆盖所有内容相关的专业人员

培训在即！名额有限，报名从速 ：）

2018年7月15日（周日）-7月16日（周一）

中国 • 上海

Shufrans Techdocs × TC互联 合作，首次将经过认证的STE培训引进国内！ 

培训亮点

除了解决开头列举的上述问题外，本次培训将突出以下创新：

高效性：STE完整版本达400页，培训能帮助参与者在短期内掌握各项受控标准，准确应用于工作场景

实践性：基于跨领域培训实践经验，trainer将通过分享案例，结合实例练习，摈弃纸上谈兵的培训模式，真正做到从书面到实战

持续性：培训时间短？担心学了就忘？基于这样的担心，这次培训在课堂讲练结束后，将提供3个月consulting。如在工作中遇到任何与STE有关的问题，我们来帮您提供最专业的解答！

专业讲师：陈淑敏，Shufrans TechDocs联合创始人、ASD-STE100培训讲师；Linkedin：https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuminchen/

定价2999：我们欢迎比价！

Service Package = 2999 RMB

其中包括：

1. 2天全天培训
2. 90天超长随访（培训结束次日起）
3. 90天内STE问题专业解答
4. 400页STE教程内容
5. 节省自学的时间和人力成本
6. 显著节约产品内容加工（如翻译）成本
7. 为公司带回完整的解决方案
8. 全面提高产品内容质量

更多案例&数据：https://www.shufrans-techdocs.com/simplified-technical-english-case-study/

了解更多。。。

We offer you more than just a training service

1. Are you a manager who constantly worries about the varying technical English proficiency levels of your staff?
2. If you are an engineer, are you having a difficult time explaining your concepts to your technical writing team?
3. If you work as a technical communicator, do you often struggle to convert complex ideas into brilliant content?

If you answered yes to any of the above, join us at the next certified Simplified Technical English workshop session in Shanghai, and be pleasantly surprised.

STE stands for Simplified Technical English. It offers native & non-native English speakers alike an efficient platform to improve your technical English language competency when writing for a global audience.

1. For technical writers: simplified wording and grammar will improve readability and safety compliance of your documentation and product respectively.
2. For engineers and programmers: Breeze through writing of test cases, technical documents, and business emails in a highly standardised and regulated manner. STE opens up effective communication channels, hence avoiding potential miscommunication issues at work while improving the overall professional impression that you portray.
3. For translators, translation PMs, and localisation engineers: With STE working for your team in the background, you can streamline your preparation of translation memory/terminology based on leaner documentation, lowered translation & localisation costs, and faster delivery.
4. For LSPs and technical writing services companies: Diversify your business portfolio with an in-depth knowledge of STE as an international controlled English language standard.

The Organisers

Shufrans Techdocs

Shufrans TechDocs is a full-service technical documentation provider and the global leader in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training and consultancy. Together with our partner network, we can help you implement a future-proof information management environment that lets you work more efficiently and accurately.

https://www.shufrans-techdocs.com/

TC互联

Talent of Content is a Shanghai-based technical communication platform that is designed especially for the technical writing community. Talent of Content (ToC) strives to provide technical communicators with a platform for their professional development, communication, and cooperation. Now, we extend our services to all content-related professionals.

Act fast and register now! We have limited seat availability.

15 (Sun) to 16 (Mon) July 2018

Shanghai • China

This event is a collaborative effort brought to you by the dedicated teams at Shufrans Techdocs × TC互联. The first ever co-certified STE training program in China.

Programme Highlights

1. Highly efficient: We will cover all 400 pages of the ASD-STE100 Specification in 2 days’ training for immediate implementation.
2. Practicality: cross-industry cases sharing by trainers with excellent pragmatic approach
3. Follow-up: 3-month post-training consulting period follows immediately after the training to ensure a seamless transition into STE writing at work
4. Experienced trainer: Ms Shumin Chen, Co-founder & Head of ASD-STE100 training & implementation of Shufrans TechDocs. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuminchen/

Introductory offer 2999 RMB from 5999 RMB | Service Package includes:

1. 2-day classroom training
2. 90-day post-training support by Shufrans TechDocs
3. 90-day professional consulting by STE experts
4. Reduce your content development time and efforts
5. Significantly lowers post-processing (e.g. translation) cost
6. One-stop content quality solution
7. Overall quality improvement.

More case studies & industry samples：https://www.shufrans-techdocs.com/simplified-technical-english-case-study/

To learn more:

Summary

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled language that is used to write technical manuals in such a way that they can be more easily understood by an international audience. STE helps to make translations cheaper and more accurate. Often a formal requirement for aircraft and defence maintenance documentation, STE can easily be adapted to all technical industries and beyond. Ms. Shumin Chen will teach participants how to correctly and effectively use STE in practice. She will also address some of the mistakes commonly found in technical writing and the frequently incorrect use of common STE writing rules.

It is important that operation and management information be understandable to the target audience. Sometimes, operation information is conveyed through a less-than-optimum selection of words. The manufacturer’s technical language can result in incomprehensible operation documentation.

Course outline*

• Practical overview of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
• How STE helps both native & non-native speakers of English
• Writing rules and how to apply them in practice
• How to use the general vocabulary
• How to deal with industry-specific terminology
• How to use STE for various documentation types
• How to implement STE with minimal disruption to on-going production and existing documentation
• Hands-on STE editing and review

* Shufrans also offers customised ASD-STE100 training solutions tailored to meet your specific requirements. These courses are normally provided at the customer’s premises.

Who should attend?

• Compliance managers
• CIO, COO, CTO
• Customer support managers
• Documentation managers
• Editors
• Engineering managers
• Engineers and SMEs who create documentation
• ILS managers
• Maintenance managers
• Operation managers
• Product managers
• Project managers
• Quality managers
• Technical writers
• Translation managers
• Translators

What training outcomes to expect?

Our interactive training, exercises and workshop, will teach participants to standardise content to:

• Author more efficiently
• Communicate more effectively with a global audience
• Improve operational safety
• Reduce AOG / downtime
• Facilitate modular writing and reuse
• Facilitate teamwork
• Facilitate translation
• Maximise consistency
• Optimise product lifecycle support
• Reduce the cost of creating and maintaining technical publications

Trainer’s qualifications

Ms. Shumin Chen, principal trainer & consultant at Shufrans TechDocs received her professional on-the-job training in the field of STE under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a linguist and documentation expert. Together as an experienced global team, they provided their combined knowledge and dedication to benefit customers worldwide. To date, they have provided training and consultancy services to over 170 companies. Shufrans TechDocs is the only company with such vast experience in providing certified STE training.

Shumin has supported various companies with their STE and other documentation needs, based on standards where possible. Although STE was developed for the aerospace industry, more specifically for aircraft maintenance documentation, Shumin found that it made a lot of sense to apply the same principles to other industries and types of documents as well. Few -if any- changes to the specification are necessary to adapt STE to industries ranging from machinery to IT, automotive to medical equipment.

Summary

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled language that is used to write technical manuals in such a way that they can be more easily understood by an international audience. STE helps to make translations cheaper and more accurate. Often a formal requirement for aircraft and defence maintenance documentation, STE can easily be adapted to all technical industries and beyond. Ms. Shumin Chen will teach participants how to correctly and effectively use STE in practice. She will also address some of the mistakes commonly found in technical writing and the frequently incorrect use of common STE writing rules.

All our training materials are updated according to the ASD-STE100 Specification Issue 7, January 2017.

Course outline*

• Practical overview of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
• How STE helps both native & non-native speakers of English
• Writing rules and how to apply them in practice
• How to use the general vocabulary
• How to deal with industry-specific terminology
• How to use STE for various documentation types
• How to implement STE with minimal disruption to on-going production and existing documentation
• Hands-on STE editing and review

“The Simplified Technical English course content and requirements provided by Shumin Chen were an absolute good fit with the TCLoc Master’s program. A technical communicator has to know about the existing specifications for technical documentation. Furthermore, this course helps the students to acquire new skills in order to enhance the accuracy and clarity of contents.” TCLoc Master’s Student, University of Strasbourg.

 

Who should attend?

• Compliance managers
• CIO, COO, CTO
• Customer support managers
• Documentation managers
• Editors
• Engineering managers
• Engineers and SMEs who create documentation
• Graphics specialists
• ILS managers
• Maintenance managers
• Operation managers
• Product managers
• Project managers
• Quality managers
• Software research engineers
• Technical illustrators
• Technical writers
• Translation managers
• Translators

What training outcomes to expect?

Our interactive training, exercises and workshop, will teach participants to standardise content to:

• Author more efficiently
• Communicate more effectively with a global audience
• Improve operational safety
• Reduce AOG / downtime
• Facilitate modular writing and reuse
• Facilitate teamwork
• Facilitate translation
• Maximise consistency
• Optimise product lifecycle support
• Reduce the cost of creating and maintaining technical publications

Trainer’s qualifications

Ms. Shumin Chen, principal trainer & consultant at Shufrans TechDocs received her professional on-the-job training in the field of STE under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a linguist and documentation expert. Together as an experienced global team, they provided their combined knowledge and dedication to benefit customers worldwide. To date, they have provided training and consultancy services to over 180 companies. Shufrans TechDocs is the only company with such vast experience in providing certified STE training.

Although STE was developed for the aerospace industry, more specifically for aircraft maintenance documentation, Shumin found that it made a lot of sense to apply the same principles to other industries and types of documents as well. Few -if any- changes to the specification are necessary to adapt STE to industries ranging from machinery to IT, automotive to medical equipment.

For technical enquiries, please reach out to experienced STE writer Rochelle Fisher at rochelle@asd-ste100.net

For sales enquiries, contact Shufrans TechDocs here.

* Shufrans also offers customised ASD-STE100 training solutions tailored to meet your specific requirements. These courses are normally provided at the customer’s premises.

Summary

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled language that is used to write technical manuals in such a way that they can be more easily understood by an international audience. STE helps to make translations cheaper and more accurate. Often a formal requirement for aircraft and defence maintenance documentation, STE can easily be adapted to all technical industries and beyond. Ms. Shumin Chen will teach participants how to correctly and effectively use STE in practice. She will also address some of the mistakes commonly found in technical writing and the frequently incorrect use of common STE writing rules.

Course outline*

• Day 1: Classroom Training
  1. Practical overview of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
  2. How STE helps both native & non-native speakers of English
  3. Benefits of adopting the STE international writing standard
  4. Writing rules and how to apply them in practice
  5. How to use the general vocabulary.

• Day 2: Application, Review, & Exercises
  1. Approved and non-approved words discussion and the rationale behind.
  2. How to deal with industry-specific terminology
  3. How to use STE for various documentation types
  4. How to implement STE with minimal disruption to on-going production and existing documentation

• Day 3: Extended Writing Workshop
  1. Practical workshop session for applying STE rules to your own documents
  2. Review, edit, and discuss participants’ own documents to reinforce learning
  3. Classroom presentation of own documents.

* Shufrans also offers customised ASD-STE100 training solutions tailored to meet your specific requirements. These courses are normally provided at the customer’s premises.

Learning how to optimally use a documentation standard like ASD-STE100 is a substantial boost to our technical writing team’s capabilities and significantly improved our compliance rating! Raja Sureshbabu, Global Head of Aerospace Vertical, Tata Consultancy Services.

Who should attend?

• Compliance managers
• CIO, COO, CTO
• Customer support managers
• Documentation managers
• Editors
• Engineering managers
• Engineers and SMEs who create documentation
• Graphics specialists
• ILS managers
• Maintenance managers
• Operation managers
• Product managers
• Project managers
• Quality managers
• Software research engineers
• Technical illustrators
• Technical writers
• Translation managers
• Translators

What training outcomes to expect?

Our interactive training, exercises and workshop, will teach participants to standardise content to:

• Author more efficiently
• Communicate more effectively with a global audience
• Improve operational safety
• Reduce AOG / downtime
• Facilitate modular writing and reuse
• Facilitate teamwork
• Facilitate translation
• Maximise consistency
• Optimise product lifecycle support
• Reduce the cost of creating and maintaining technical publications

Trainer’s qualifications

Ms. Shumin Chen, principal trainer & consultant at Shufrans TechDocs received her professional on-the-job training in the field of STE under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a linguist and documentation expert. Together as an experienced global team, they provided their combined knowledge and dedication to benefit customers worldwide. To date, they have provided training and consultancy services to over 180 companies. Shufrans TechDocs is the only company with such vast experience in providing certified STE training.

Shumin has supported various companies with their STE and other documentation needs, based on standards where possible. Although STE was developed for the aerospace industry, more specifically for aircraft maintenance documentation, Shumin found that it made a lot of sense to apply the same principles to other industries and types of documents as well. Few -if any- changes to the specification are necessary to adapt STE to industries ranging from machinery to IT, automotive to medical equipment.