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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">The Benefits of Shop Documentation</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Any industry can benefit from Shop Documentation in a number of ways:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The automation of documents means that you no longer have to hand-write reports. Shop Documentation readily provides organized and formatted information.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Communication between the NC Programmer and the machinist is improved because you can easily find the information you need.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When a company adopts one standard for their documentation it saves time, money, and frustration. You now have a uniform way of organizing all the company's information into one format. As everyone in the company begins to use this one format, the benefits are multiplied. No one has to take the time to explain their personal organization, or to learn the organization of another's document.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Although Shop Documentation provides several predefined formatted reports, it is also possible for you to customize reports to fill your own needs. This is done by creating your own event handler and template files, or copying and modifying those provided with the system. Knowledge of the Tcl programming language is required to modify or add to the predefined formats. Once you program your own formats, these can then be used as a company-wide standard for reports saving time and eliminating confusion</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The reports that Shop Documentation produces can be used to keep internal records. Management can use this data to analyze productivity. For example, to reduce overall cost management you can look at the Tool List and decide if it is beneficial to minimize the tools being used in an NC program.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Communicating with people at other locations, such as for subcontracting, is made easier because Shop Documentation can be published on the Internet using HTML format. This HTML format is also more visually pleasing.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Shop Documentation can assist you in training new machinists by providing reports of actual jobs to use as a reference.</p>
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