Raytheon delivers critical tech doc updates at scale with XPP
Raytheon relies on XPP (XML Professional Publisher) to keep its Patriot system clients up to date with critical technical changes.
For over 30 years, this major player in the aerospace and defense industry has used XPP to publish updates to the technical documents that support the Patriot weapon system. XPP has always evolved to keep pace with Raytheon’s ever-changing requirements, from new security policies to managing 30,000+ pages of complex instructions and images.
“XPP is like electricity to us – it’s just there and works when you flip the switch.”
Challenges
- Move to a new operating platform to comply with company security policies
- Achieve high speed and quality for high-volume publications
- Carry out 2-3 updates a year
- Update 20-40k pages each for 13 different foreign clients simultaneously
Solution
Results
- Over 300% increase in throughput over time through continuous software improvements
- Critical updates for maintenance and repair instructions delivered 2-3 times per year for 13 countries
- 20-40k pages typically changed with each update (5-10% of total unique page count)