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Technical Support · After-Sales · Product Teams

When a technician is standing in front of your unit, he should get your answer — not a guess.

Your manuals, fault codes and parameters live behind portals and logins — so in the field they get skipped. Manuel puts your official documentation where technicians already ask their questions, with the source attached, and shows you what the field keeps asking about your products.

Start with one product line
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Brand A · portal
Brand B · service app
PDF manual
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Brand C · documentation
Outdated data sheet
“What does E10 mean?”
Manuel
One technical interface
Official source
E10 — water pressure too low
Top up to 1.5 bar and bleed the system. If the pressure keeps dropping, check for a leak.
Your Brand · Service Manual p. 112
Usage signal back to the manufacturer

Your products reach the field through a clear chain. Your technical knowledge often doesn’t.

Today
With Manuel
Commercial chain — stays in place
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technician → Google
technician → colleague
technician → wholesaler
service desk → OEM support
technician → manufacturer portal
warranty question → support
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Specialist situations can still run through the manufacturer’s existing support channels. Manuel does not replace wholesalers, dealers or OEM support.
Keep the commercial chain. Shorten the knowledge chain.

Your portal serves your brand.
Manuel serves the technician.

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One way of working
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You don’t need to convince a multi-brand technician to adopt another product portal. You need your official knowledge to be available in the workflow they already use.

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Put one product line in Manuel. Let your own experts test it first.

No subscription. No setup fee. No commitment. Nothing goes live until your people have tested the answers themselves.

One product line
Test
Approve
Live

From your documentation to the field without another integration project.

01
Release
Manufacturer authorises technical documentation through 2BA for a selected product line or GLNs.
02
Process
Manuel processes the documentation and makes it searchable.
03
Test
3–5 manufacturer experts use Manuel for 2–3 weeks and deliberately ask difficult product questions.
04
Review
Correct · missing documentation · needs improvement.
05
Approve
Nothing becomes publicly available until the manufacturer approves the result.
OEM approved
Technician network
If the manufacturer is not available through 2BA, a selected part of the range can be supplied separately. Onboarding happens together with your experts — not instant and not fully self-service.
Your knowledge. Your control.

Know exactly what technicians are being told about your products.

Question from the field
What does fault E10 mean?
Manuel High confidence
E10 — water pressure too low
Top up to 1.5 bar, bleed the system and check the pressure again. If it keeps dropping, check for a leak.
Official source
Your Brand Service Manual · p. 112
Always with the source
If it is not in the documentation, Manuel does not pretend otherwise.
The manufacturer decides which product documentation is released
The release can be changed or withdrawn
Your Brand Service Manual.pdf
112 / 248
9.4 Fault codes
E10 — Water pressure too low
< 1,0 bar
Top up the system to 1.5 bar and bleed it. If it recurs, check for a leak.

See what your support team normally never gets to see.

See which products technicians search for, which fault codes recur, which questions repeat and where your documentation still leaves gaps.

Heat pump does not start
E10 on model X
Parameter for the heating curve
Fan part number
Sensor S5 location
Commissioning checklist
This is a report concept — not a live OEM dashboard. The sections are filled with real field questions once a product line is live.
Quarterly
Field Intelligence Report
Your Brand · product line in Manuel
1 Most searched product types
CMS-veld
2 Recurring fault codes
CMS-veld
3 Recurring technical questions
CMS-veld
4 Questions Manuel could not answer
CMS-veld
5 Documentation gaps
CMS-veld

Every unanswered question can make the next answer better.

01
Technician asks
“How should parameter X be configured on model Y?”
02
Manuel
Not found in the released documentation
03
Quarterly OEM report
The question appears in the quarterly report
04
OEM expert
Clarifies or adds the missing information
05
Back in Manuel
The knowledge is in the released documentation
06
Next technician
Answer available immediately ✓
Documentation
Field
Questions
Insight
Better knowledge
Field

Support should get the exceptions, not the manual lookups.

Technical support · inbox
Incoming questions
What does E10 mean? From official documentation
Which parameter controls this setting? From official documentation
What is the part number? From official documentation
Where is sensor S5? From official documentation
Which maintenance procedure applies? From official documentation
Firmware deviation on a prototype series Specialist · manufacturer support
Warranty claim with deviating measurements Specialist · manufacturer support
Every technical question the installer can resolve from your official documentation is one less avoidable question that needs to start with your support team.
No automatic ticket routing or escalation feature — specialist situations keep running through your own support channels.

One connection into a multi-brand service ecosystem.

Your brand
Other manufacturer sources
Official documentation
Product data
Manuel
Installation company
Installation company
Installation company
Installation company
Installation company
Installation company
Installation company
Technicians

Your installers do not work exclusively with your products. Manuel gives them one consistent place to work across brands — while the answers for your products come from your official documentation.

Third-party brand names are not used here without approval.

Start by sharing documentation. Expand only if it makes sense.

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For manufacturers that want their official documentation available to installation companies.
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What manufacturer collaboration looks like in practice.

Devin Donlou, Team lead Marketing BeNeLux bij Panasonic Panasonic
Panasonic · OEM collaboration
From pilot to dealer network
“The Manuel team provides reliable information and ships improvements quickly. That takes pressure off our service and sales departments, which is why we are now taking the next step towards the dealers.”
Devin Donlou
Team lead Marketing BeNeLux — Panasonic
66
Panasonic models in Manuel
900
Fault codes for Panasonic
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Be the answer technicians find for your products.

Start with one product line. Your experts test it before anything goes live.

Start with one product line
Official documentation
E10 · fault code
Source · p. 112
OEM approved
Field questions
Quarterly insight
Documentation gaps
Better answers
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