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Good quality documentation is identified by manufacturing industries as an important asset to push their products on the market. More and more companies sell their products all over the world and are requested to provide localized product documentation. In this context, controlling --- through creation, translation and maintenance --- the consistency of huge documentation produced in different places, on different tools by people with different skills is a real challenge. Moreover, reducing the effort of document creation and management by help of powerful software tools, will cut down the costs of complex products significantly. Goal of the DOCSTEP project, which is presented here, is the usage and integration of beneficial technologies and standards for product modeling, natural language processing and document management in order to improve the process of product documentation creation and management. The DOCSTEP approach is based on the integration between the product data standard ISO 10303 STEP and the documentation standard ISO 8879 SGML. It is the aim of the DOCSTEP project to develop an Authoring System where documents are based on the generic model of the product, with language independent semantic layer plus integrated tools allowing the end user to access document/product relevant information efficiently. Language Engineering The presentation shows the current results of the DOCSTEP project. DOCSTEP is promoted in the context of the Telematics Research Program Language Engineering of the Commission of the European Community.