Visualizing Better Solutions
Clear, easy-to-follow technical illustrations play an important role in your product support literature. Right, wrong, or indifferent, the majority of today's target audience looks first to the illustration, then to the text. A good technical illustration can reduce critical repair times and costs, provided it holds the right information and effectively portrays the story. The illustrators at O'Neil team with the technical writers and parts catalogers to achieve accuracy and consistency between the visual and textual stories; whether in a stand-alone document or across all volumes of a manual set.
Our award-winning technical illustrators routinely produce all types of technical illustrations, including animations (used in training, IETMs, and e-learning), interactive animated schematics (also known as "point-to-point," among other terms) and intelligent illustration graphics that carry the parts identification metadata from the engineering file through the illustration into the parts list. These are an extension of our half century of creating exploded-view parts illustrations, maintenance/repair illustrations, operation illustrations, cutaways and phantom views, schematic diagrams, photo to line art conversions, wiring diagrams, and color renderings. We still excel at those. Today, our technical illustrators can help you visualize better solutions through:
- Modern Application of Traditional Technical Illustration
- Our Use of Illustration Tools
- Conversion of Legacy Graphics
- Interactive Technical Graphics (including animation)
- See our Graphics Technology Feature
As the technical documentation is usually delivered concurrent with the product, our technical illustrators accept and expect a certain amount of engineering changes as a part of the process. Whenever we can get engineering 3D CAD files from our customers, it shortens the graphics creation time and increases output options. Mitigation of impact actions, such as cut-off dates, is implemented whenever possible and practical. Our Technical Illustration Department maintains a library of common components and symbols that can be used time and again. As a result, we can prevent needless repetition of work and provide you with a more cost-efficient technical illustration package.
O'Neil employs many full-time technical illustrators in our home office in Miamisburg, Ohio and in our offices in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and Louisville, Kentucky. Within our technical illustration team, 9 have more than 10 years with O'Neil, and 2 have more than 30 years with O'Neil with no immediate plans for retirement. In addition, we have several local freelance illustrators who have provided top-of-the-line technical illustration services for us for many years.