Case Study: HOMAG streamlines DITA authoring and cuts translation time 50% with Adobe FrameMaker (Adobe)

HOMAG unites DITA authoring in Adobe FrameMaker with SAP ERP workflows to provide Industry 4.0 technical documentation

HOMAG, a 6,600-employee leader in woodworking machinery founded in 1960, needed to modernize how it created and delivered complex technical documentation for machines used in more than 100 countries. Facing 500,000 Microsoft Word source files scattered across facilities and labor-intensive, manual translation and versioning workflows, the company wanted to preserve its ERP-driven publishing process while expanding authoring capabilities and improving efficiency for Industry 4.0–enabled machines.

HOMAG moved to Adobe FrameMaker for DITA authoring and worked with partner c-rex.net to integrate FrameMaker with its new SAP ERP, using HDXP macro-topics to map content to machine components. The automated solution converts legacy files, generates XLIFF for CAT, and publishes multi-format outputs, creating a global documentation infrastructure that simplified translation into 33 languages, cut translation turnaround by 50%, and automated versioning and management across XML, HTML5, video, and graphics.

HOMAG

Andreas Wolf

Head of Technical Documentation