Field notes.
Once a month: what we are learning from live projects in mechanical and plant engineering, what actually holds up in production, what we are deliberately leaving out - and occasionally an argument we are testing.
Why we just cancelled a pilot at a machinery manufacturer.
A specific project where the data would not carry it. Plus: three questions we put on the table before every new pilot.
Drawing archives: what you can really get out of scans.
Two decades of paper and TIFF, searchable by part, standard and material - and the places where recognition reliably fails.
Machinery Regulation 2027: what the digital manual actually requires.
Binding from January 2027, with no transition period. What a purely digital manual brings with it - and why structured documentation solves both at once.
Four things that did not work for us in 2025.
A year in review without the success stories. The four things we are doing differently in 2026.
Why we do not put a chatbot on the documentation.
The difference between a search interface and a knowledge system you can rely on is architectural, not cosmetic.
Permissions in a knowledge system: the underestimated part.
Who may see what is decided by the source system, at query time. Why that is exactly where group-wide projects get stuck.