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The Optimum Way, also known as SBSPTM (Step By Step Procedure), is an innovative, highly visual and interactive system that can be used to replace traditional technical writing.
SBSPTM simplifies complex processes and transforms them into clear, concise, and easy to perform procedures by preserving the knowledge and experience of employees in the field and presenting this information through the universal language of our SBSPTM system.
The Optimum methodology works as follows:
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Use of CAD models and/or digital images to generate Operation Sheets instead of using long sentences and cumbersome written explanations.
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Use of icons as Graphical Instruction Symbols, instead of long and tedious descriptions of processes.
- Organization of the Figures and Icons in the right sequence - (each page / screen) is called a 'Step' in the SBSPTM.
- Use of colors and graphical aids to emphasize certain actions (Blue indicates "Check" actions, Red indicates an action, Green indicates use of tools etc.).
Optimum's unique system can be best described using the following example. The illustrations show how technical documentation was carried out in the past in comparison to the new SBSPTM system. There is little need to elaborate here as the results are quite obvious.
This methodology allows Optimum effective in all areas of technical documentation beginning in R&D, through the production and training all the way to end users.
Optimum's unique system is based on the scientifically proven fact that visualization is one the most effective training aid available, superior to the written or spoken word. Research, conducted by Dr. Katrina Ricci for the US Naval Labs on the most effective training aids, concluded that without a doubt, graphics and visual aids are the best training methods:
"The research concluded that animation is the better means of relating information in electronic technical documents and that it should be initiated automatically when users get to a specific step in a document" (StarLink July/Aug. 2006, Animation in electronic documentation ILIR research provides insights)
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