A few years before somebody coined the term "Single Sourcing", Novatek was approached to create a duplicate set of product manuals for equipment to be sold under two different brands.

MCFA is a joint venture of Caterpillar and Mitsubishi to sell materials handling equipment. Although the equipment was nearly identical, the standards each used to create documentation and corporate branding created a divergence in the production process that had to be carefully managed.

Input and assets were needed from both brands - a "content-neutral" approach could not be used. Different changes and requests from each brand created a drift between each edition of the content.

Layouts and content are almost identical

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