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technical communication differences between software industry and manufacturing industry
Subject:technical communication differences between software industry and manufacturing industry From:Simon <wingman1985 -at- yahoo -dot- com -dot- cn> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:27:28 +0800 (CST)
What do you see as the major differences between software industry and manufacturing industry? Here is my observation(I am working in a JV located in mainland China in a manufacturing setting but I am reading a lot about software industry):
1. Software businesses tend to pay more attention to their docs while in the manufacturing sector, docs are systematically ignored(as far as I am concerned).
What is your observation?
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