The DITA CMS was selected to improve technical communications processesfor SolidWorks

Vasont Systems announced the release of the next major version of their XML content management system (CMS), Vasont® ST, that enables users to store multilingual content once for maximum reuse and delivery to multiple channels. This release strengthens the CMS's modular content management and project management solutions for DITA and non-DITA applications...Vasont ST supports the latest release of the DITA standard, DITA 1.2,
as well as other standard and custom DTDs.

TORONTO, Canada — April 5, 2011

Codex Systems today announced the release of Codex®, a new type of editor that enables anyone to author XML-based DITA content easily and affordably. With Codex non-technical authors can create and edit simple DITA topics and maps that can then be used in sophisticated XML publishing processes.

Consider joining the DITA Machine Industry group on LinkedIn. Then you can discuss what you are missing in the DITA 1.2 standard "out-of-the-box", including the new machine industry specialization, and what you need to make DITA applicable to your business in the machine industry.