TPS WI/4G

TechPub Studio (TPS) is an authoring application for repair manuals and the successor of Livas for the infomedia Repair Manuals within CONNECT.
TPS is the underlying editing system to create content for the new content visualization WI/4G (Workshop Information 4th Generation).

KEY FUNCTIONALITIES

TPS:

  • Process automation
  • Increased data quality
  • Re-usability of content
  • Linking of editorial processes

WI4G:

  • Integration in display systems ElsaPro, Elsa2Go, etc.
  • Device agnostic display of information
User-Group

USER GROUPS

  • Service Technician
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BENEFITS

  • administrative time reduction Reducing administrative time
  • digital experience Increase digital customer experience
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AVAILABILITY

TPS is planned to go live for the MEB vehicle projects and started on 1. July 2020 with ID.4.

price

COSTS

License fees &
Maintenance costs
per user

ABOUT

For the repair and maintenance of all vehicles, technical workshop information (repair manuals, on-board logs, circuit diagrams, exhaust emission tests, work position catalogue, etc.) are to be made available for all group-wide workshops in the required form and quality and with a continuous process and system support. As part of the TPS / WI 4G project, a new authoring system (Content Management System) based on Teamcenter is introduced at the Volkswagen Group.

New vehicle projects entail a high level of complexity. This makes repair manuals an essential information tool for workshops worldwide. The new content management system TechPub Studio was developed to better describe complexities and dependencies of future vehicle projects.


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Why TPS / WI4G

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    Reduced complexity

    The modular structure of TPS makes it possible to map the complexity of safety-critical repairs.

  • Attention-Shield

    Ensure data quality & data protection

    The roles and rights models enable specific access control within the group but also for external service providers.

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    Reusage across brands

    A central management and provision of information is possible due to a consistent and up-to-date data source (CONNECT). This enables the reusage of information across brands.

  • stabilization

    Product data alignment

    An improved PR number control will provide an opportunity for greater consistency and thus stability in the cooperation process with the development.

  • administrative time reduction

    Reduction of system interaction times

    Due to the central data source and the structure of relations, later changes can be made on one central module. The changes are automatically displayed in the repair guides where the module is reused (relative).

HOW IT WORKS


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FUNCTIONALITIES

Current Functionalities

Already developed functionalities whose availability depends on the rollout activities

TPS:

Enabling of automatization of processes through new data structure
Increase of data quality through new data structure and modularization
Enabling of vin-specific clusters as well as the reuse of content across brands through modularization
Reduction of system interaction time due to linked content

WI4G:

Possibility to integrate the content into the display systems ElsaPro and Elsa2Go
Support of the new way of visualization for service technicians across devices

Currently no further functionalities planned.

PRACTICAL INSIGHT

The mock-up shows the editing system TPS. Editors are creating repair manual content, which is visualized for service technician in display systems such as ElsaPro, Elsa2Go, etc.

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SYSTEM OVERVIEW

Description to be provided.


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ROLLOUT

It is planned, that all five brands (VW, VW CV, SKODA, SEAT, AUDI) use TPS.
VW PC is already live and is editing repair manuals for ID.4.
Other brands are piloting and will go live with their MEB vehicles.

Software:

  • Office Client & CONNECT Client
  • iDO Client (up-to-date)
  • Internet Explorer 10 (or later versions)
  • Adobe PDF Reader add-on for Internet Explorer
  • Java JRE7 or 8 (32 bit)

Hardware:

  • CPU: Intel Core2 Duo (2GHz or similar)
  • Capacity: min 1 GB RAM for TPS Client
  • HardDisc: min 300 MB for TPS Client, 1 GB for temporary working files

  • Training courses are offered to build-up and expand the level of user knowledge
  • Train individual users
  • Build-up knowledge base and active community

  • Support is hosted by the individual brands
  • User communication platform for interactive exchange of information and occurring problems
  • Legal and data protection framework is currently being created
  • License fees & Maintenance costs per user

Contact

For further details or in case of questions, please reach out to:
digital.after.sales.vwag.r.wob@volkswagen.de