Manufacturing Manual Advise

[Greg Moser <76462 -dot- 2004 -at- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM>]

SUB TECHWR-L Greg Moser

        I am working in Wichita, Kansas with Raytheon Aircraft as a Manufacturing Engineer
 on the JPATS (Joint Primary Aircraft Training System) airplane.   Basically, I have a  task of
 writing a manual that will be submitted to the US Government to fulfill a contract requirement.
  My challenge is this:

            Based on some selected topics, go through a few of the manuals and procedures in
 the company on each topic and determine the important items for reference.
  Since I have never written a manual of this type before I was wondering if someone could
 give me some advice on how to put one together?  The company has some guidelines
 on how they want it, however I am running into "Writer?s Block" in determining what
 information is important and what isn?t from all the manuals and procedures.
  Also, how do I avoid the problem of dual documentation, since I am quoting
 directly from internal documents and those documents are updated occasionally
 and mine may not.  Either that or there will be a problem of tracing all of these documents
 to their writers, etc.  Anyway, I was wondering if you can provide me with solutions as to
 how you yourself would approach this.   In addition, I have access to the Internet if you are
 aware of pointers or Home Pages on the Internet where I can get information on Manufacturing
 Manual or about "dual documentation" issues I would like to hear about it.


        Thank you for your time and I hope to hear back from you in the future.


Greg Moser
Wichita, Kansas
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