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Operators require instructions to describe how to operate, maintain and repair their equipment safely and efficiently. As experienced technical authors, Railcraft use fundamental engineering knowledge, communication skills and good plain English as well as all of the computer-based tools at our disposal to create readable, practical, high quality manuals to meet the needs of everyone from the machine operator to the Works Engineer.


Whether you require documentation for Railway Authority approval on a new machine, or a set of maintenance schedules for your twenty year old fleet, let Railcraft take the pain from the production. We can offer a modular technical documentation service based around any of the following:

 
     
 
  • Operating and maintenance manuals
  • Spare parts manuals
  • Test schedules and reports
  • Maintenance schedules
  • Railway Authority approval reports
  • Formal calculations
  • Promotional Articles
  • Impartial third party reports
  • Clause by clause response to specifications

Railcraft engineers have in-depth product knowledge and know from experience how to write clear instructions and provide clear, thorough explanations. We understand our client's end-users and what they need to know in order to operate and maintain a product safely and efficiently. For you – our customer, this means greater confidence in your operations, improved site safety and reduced support requirements.

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  As part of our technical documentation service, Railcraft automatically includes ideas to help optimise the use of the product :  
     
 
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  • We give an outside view, a wider perspective.
  • We can provide feedback on your application and suggest enhancements.
  • We can if necessary completely restructure your maintenance documentation.
  • We can include drawings, graphics, diagrams, digital photographs, fault-finding charts, exploded views, screen shots and video clips to help the reader to understand your product.
 
     
 

Railcraft can also provide computer-based versions of maintenance documentation allowing the end user on-screen access and :

  • Fast access soft copies of information.
  • Quick and easy search facilities.
  • A keyword index allowing much faster information lookup.
  • Text search for any word in the file
  • Document or manual sharing as a common resource across your company network.
  • Easy publishing to intranet or internet, company wide or worldwide.
  • Cross-platform output suitable for different computer and operating system platforms.

Producing your own technical documents can be unproductive and tiring - often with disappointing results.

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  Talk to Railcraft and let us document your success.  
     
     
   
For those curious about the origins of the Railcraft logo, the shield represents strength, the dark blue colour : integrity and the sun : energy, and also that we are a Yorkshire company since the "Sunne in Splendour" is an ancient heraldic device of English Kings from the house of York. ("Now is the Winter of our discontent made glorious Summer by this son / sun of York" - Shakespear, Richard III) Railcraft Associates Ltd, Consulting Design Engineers