New York-based assembly work instructions software startup Dirac Inc. launched today with the beta release of its first product, BuildOS. Pitched as bringing work instructions into the 21st century, ...

Since the first industrial revolution, improving productivity has been a major goal for most manufacturing operations. Today, in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, that hasn’t changed.

Just the other day, I had to read the manual. I’d borrowed my neighbor’s hammer drill to make some holes in a masonry wall, and I didn’t know how to swap the bits. Fortunately, the drill’s carrying ...

Stéphane Donzé is the Founder and CEO of AODocs, with more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise content management industry. Manufacturing organizations invest heavily in product lifecycle ...

Last spring, a dozen members of the Worker Writers School workshopped a poem titled “Instruction Manual.” The group meets monthly from September to May in the offices of PEN America, a literary ...