Machinery, plant and equipment products are being developed and produced to an increasing extent in series which contain a wide range of different variants. Each variant has its own technical documentation, which needs to be available on various media (CD/DVD, print, web) and in the latest versions. This means that more and more documents have to be translated, updated and administered, which represents a real challenge in terms of editorial work and foreign language management.
Consistency in terminology and style
One approach which is frequently taken to solve this problem is as follows: Sections of text which have already been translated are compiled from various documents and versions, and missing chapters or even just individual sentences are translated and imported into the layout program used. In most cases, however, this apparently efficient approach proves to be disadvantageous: The foreign language documentation acquires a cobbled-together character, with identical content translated in different ways because it has been taken from different sources. What’s more, experience shows that mistakes are passed on from one version to the next and multiplied several times over. As a result, foreign-language documents are at best difficult to read and at worst full of mistakes!
We will help you – if appropriate with the assistance of Translation Memory Systems – to re-use translations which already exist. In doing so, we will ensure rigorous compliance with our internal quality rules. As a result, your foreign-language documentation will be prepared quickly, cost-effectively and in the best quality – not forgetting the all-important consistency in style and terminology.
The project management at Verbalis AG engages in intelligent and constructive feedback, which reduces to a minimum the effort and expense involved in producing translations of documentation.