Simplified Technical English training Europe | Online Certified ASD-STE100 Training Workshop Programme
Dates: 19 & 20 October 2026 (Alternative cohort: 29 & 30 November 2026)
Time: 08:00 to 15:00 CET
Length of training: 2 days
Course registration ends one week before training commences.
*Course fee includes exercises, learning aids, certificate of completion, and 120-day post-training support.
⁺⁺A group discount of up to €500 is applicable when two or more participants sign up for the same event. Send us your questions: enquiry@shufrans-techdocs.com.
🏷️ A €210 fee discount is applicable when you also sign up for 🆕 Certified STE Masterclass | Europe Online.
Inclusions: Course materials, practical exercises, learning aids, a certificate of completion, and 120 days of post-training support.
Group Discount: Save up to €500 when two or more colleagues register for the same cohort.
Bundle Offer: Receive a €210 fee discount when you also register for the upcoming Certified STE Masterclass | Europe Online.
Enquiries: Have questions or need a custom corporate booking? Send us a message at enquiry@asd-ste100.net.
Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100) is the internationally recognised controlled language specification designed to make complex technical manuals clear, unambiguous, and easily understood by a global audience. In today’s enterprise landscape—where automated translation engines and AI-assisted workflows rapidly scale content output but also multiply linguistic errors—upstream standardisation is more critical than ever.
By eliminating ambiguity and enforcing strict syntactic control, STE protects your documentation pipeline, acts as a reliable grounding layer for automated systems, drastically reduces translation costs, and prevents costly operational risks. While often a formal requirement for aerospace and defence maintenance documentation, STE is readily adapted across all high-compliance technical industries. Led by Shumin Chen, this foundational training teaches participants how to correctly and effectively apply STE rules in practice, navigate common writing pitfalls, and correct the frequent misinterpretations of core guidelines that undermine technical quality.
Shumin is a very knowledgeable STE instructor. She kept the course interesting and was always open to our questions/feedback. The introduction to Simplified Technical English has been greatly beneficial for my understanding of what the specification entails. In terms of preferred rules, I cannot pinpoint a specific set of STE writing rules as they are all valuable. This was my favorite part of the course as I enjoyed analyzing how other writers went about using STE to best apply it to their line of work.
The rewriting workshop in Simplified Technical English training Europe was my favorite part of the course as I enjoyed analyzing how other writers went about using STE to best apply it to their line of work. I would highly recommend this course to all technical writers. Shumin Chen takes the time to clearly explain the rules of STE. A very attentive instructor, indeed. If given the chance, I would really enjoy working along side her. Michael Palmieri, Documentation Specialist, AON3D | The Advanced Additive Manufacturing Platform
We’re committed to providing the highest quality learning experience in all our online workshops. Therefore, we’ve made the decision to cap all our online workshop session sizes at just five participants, starting 5 May 2025.
This intimate virtual environment fosters richer discussions, more personalised feedback, and a greater overall impact on your understanding and application of key technical communication standards like Simplified Technical English. Learn better, communicate better, across all our courses. This two-day Online STE Workshop includes interactive training, exercises, and a 120-day post-training consultation.
Practical overview of Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100) and why strict structural control is essential for modern technical documentation.
How STE ensures absolute clarity for both native and non-native speakers across global audiences.
The direct risk-mitigation and cost benefits of adopting the STE international writing standard in high-compliance environments.
Core writing rules and how to apply them systematically in daily practice.
Mastering the general vocabulary lexicon: Approved and unapproved words, and the strict structural rationale behind them.
Eliminating ambiguous phrasing, noun clusters, and syntactic drift that undermine technical accuracy.
Establishing a rigorous baseline for clear, human-readable documentation that withstands automated review and translation workflows.
How to deal with industry-specific terminology and integrate specialised nouns safely into controlled writing.
How to apply STE across various documentation types (such as maintenance manuals, service bulletins, and operating procedures).
How to implement STE frameworks with minimal disruption to ongoing production and existing documentation archives.
Practical hands-on workshop session for applying strict STE rules directly to your own company documents.
Systematic review, live editorial breakdown, and discussion of participants’ own documents to reinforce learning.
Collaborative review of common error patterns and alternative phrasing solutions.
Final classroom presentation of edited documents to establish a repeatable, high-integrity quality standard for your team, directly reducing the cost of creating and maintaining technical publications.
*Shufrans also offers customised ASD-STE100 training solutions tailored to meet your specific requirements. These courses are normally provided at the customer’s premises.
Executive Leadership & Strategy: CIOs, CTOs, COOs, and Compliance Managers
Documentation & Editorial Leads: Documentation Managers, Editors, and Technical Writers
Engineering & Technical Specialists: Engineering Managers, SMEs, Software Research Engineers, Service Engineers, and AI Content Engineers
Operations & Support Teams: Maintenance, ILS, Operation, Product, and Project Managers, plus Customer Support
Training & Content Creation: Instructional Designers, Translators, Translation Managers, and Technical Illustrators.
Our interactive training, exercises, and workshop will equip participants to standardise content and achieve measurable operational outcomes:
Enhanced Communication & Efficiency: Authors will gain the structural discipline required to create clear, consistent, and easily translatable technical documentation—providing a reliable grounding layer for automated translation engines and AI-assisted workflows, facilitating seamless global communication, and streamlining the authoring process.
Improved Operational Safety & Reduced Downtime: By mastering STE principles, teams will produce unambiguous documentation that eliminates procedural misunderstandings, directly safeguarding operational safety and driving a measurable reduction in costly AOG/downtime and human error.
Optimised Lifecycle Support & Cost Reduction: Standardisation enables modular writing, semantic consistency, and efficient content reuse. This optimises product lifecycle support, future-proofs documentation against shifting publishing stacks, and significantly reduces the overall cost of creating and maintaining technical publications.
The introduction in Simplified Technical English training Europe was a good and concise way to familiarize yourself with STE basics. I’ve a background in plain language, so for example the rule on noun clusters makes perfect sense. I’m all about simplification, so substituting verbs like “eliminate” for verbs like “remove” or “stop” will be my new quest. The STE exercises were helpful in getting to grasp with STE during the training workshop. I’d very likely recommend this course to anyone planning to introduce STE as it’s got a great practical angle. Jenni Virtaluoto, PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Ms. Shumin Chen, principal trainer and consultant at Shufrans TechDocs, received her professional on-the-job training in the field of Simplified Technical English under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a renowned linguist and documentation expert. Together as an experienced global team, they combined their expertise to benefit enterprise clients worldwide, having delivered training and consultancy services to over 200 companies to date. Shufrans TechDocs stands as an industry leader with unmatched depth of experience in providing certified Simplified Technical English training in Europe.
Shumin has guided numerous organisations through their complex documentation and standardisation needs. Although STE was originally developed for the aerospace industry—specifically for aircraft maintenance manuals—she has successfully demonstrated that its foundational principles provide an essential governance framework across a wide range of technical sectors, including machinery, IT, automotive, energy, and medical equipment.
As enterprises increasingly deploy automated translation engines, LLMs, and AI-assisted content workflows, Shumin’s approach proves that strict linguistic control is more vital than ever. Because structural clarity and syntactic discipline are universally required, few, if any, changes to the specification are necessary to adapt STE as a reliable upstream grounding layer for modern digital and AI-driven publishing stacks.
