AVL List

Instead of enough paper to fill 90 files: an app that shows everything.

Customer: AVL List

An app gives you a picture of AVL’s entire testing system and displays exactly the information you want at a tap of your finger.

Project description

AVL is an Austrian company that sells its drive systems, simulation technologies and testing equipment for the automotive industry all over the world. The company wants its customers to be able to access the documentation for these highly complex testing systems quickly and easily. It wants a solution that makes information available clearly for all use cases. Users should be able to go anywhere in the system and get context-sensitive, up-to-date information – preferably using an app.

The challenge

The extensive system documentation is to be presented in such a way that users can quickly get an overview of the testing equipment for the AVL drive systems. A graphical representation of the system in an app can meet this requirement. The user navigates directly to the desired area in the schematic view and can use a context menu to see content that is subdivided into categories such as technical data, maintenance plans, parts lists, safety information and images. A reliable full-text search function makes the app even more user friendly.

Solution

The documentation is created in AVL’s System Documentation Creator (SDC). This contains all the documentation, with categorised information in a variety of formats. It is so flexible that the content can easily be enhanced with and linked to other elements. SDC creates HTML5 content that is packed into a native iOS application using the Cordova framework. The application is then made available to customers on iPads. The results of the user-friendly full-text search function also show the document categories in which the search term occurs. You can use a tree-view search or start by clicking a specific point in the system. The search process is fast and clearly structured.

Target group

Car manufacturers

Application area

System overview

Solution

Hybrid iOS app

Tool

Apache Cordova

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