method and dynamic system for the management and production of technical documentation in a database

摘要

An object oriented approach for the management of components of technical documents related to products involves seeing each product as an object and each object possessing a set of well prescribed and simple operations which can operate on it and are termed "methods" (for example, "install", "update", "save", "layout", etc.). With such an organization each technical procedure is merely a list of components where a component represents the association of an object with the associated method. Once the database of the components is developed, it is possible to obtain the desired technical procedures merely by combining the existing components with each other in different sequences. It will be necessary to develop a new component only when the procedure requires something new and this component will be available for future procedures.