Case Study: Vicor Corporation achieves on-demand customized datasheets in 30 seconds (cutting time from one week) with Quark Smart Datasheets (PowerBench)

Vicor Introduces Industry-First Solution for Creating on-Demand Datasheets

Vicor Corporation, a maker of modular power components for industries like computing and aerospace, faced a bottleneck delivering highly technical, high‑fidelity datasheets for hundreds of customizable products. With 3,000–4,000 custom datasheet requests per year and a typical manual turnaround of about a week, the process was slow, costly and could not reliably produce the precise numerical and graphical content designers needed.

Vicor implemented Quark’s Smart Datasheets solution to power its PowerBench tool: engineers enter custom specs online, an XML file with thousands of parameters is generated and QuarkXPress produces performance graphs and a PDF datasheet on demand—typically within 30 seconds. The automated XML‑template workflow replaced thousands of static documents, slashed delivery time from a week to seconds, reduced costs, increased productivity and improved customer satisfaction.

Vicor Corporation

Jim Trainor

Senior Business Systems Analyst