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Machinery translation services
Our machinery translation solutions can unlock many new opportunities for your business, allow you to communicate effectively with customers and suppliers, ensure safety when it comes to the use of machinery and comply with local regulations.
Why invest in machinery translation?
Resolve communication challenges
Manufacturing is an essential industry in many countries across the globe, making up 48% of global exports in 2022, and there’s no denying that it’s currently more international than ever.
Over the last few decades, the world has become more interconnected and manufacturing supply chains have become more complex as businesses outsource work to multiple suppliers, sell products in new markets and try to create efficient workflows to effectively outperform competitors.
The resulting state of the manufacturing industry is one in which companies regularly face multilingual communication challenges with many of their stakeholders, including suppliers, customers and employees.
Improve safety for employees
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, language barriers play a role in 25% of on-the-job accidents, particularly in industries that use heavy machinery, like manufacturing and construction.
Accurate translation and localisation of training materials, warning labels and instruction manuals can greatly reduce the risk of such accidents, providing a safe environment for your employees, suppliers and customers.
Meet local rules and regulations
Selling in new markets means you must comply with local regulations, and these can often mean you have to make changes to your manufacturing content.
For example, according to the EU Machinery Directive, manufacturers who sell their products in the EU or the EEA must make all instructions and warnings available in the official language of the target country, as well as in the original language. This necessitates the translation and localisation of many materials.
In addition to regulations specifically regarding language, you may also need to translate documents in order to meet other local regulations, such as the provision of pollution or emissions data, risk assessments or product safety documents in other languages.
Heavy machinery industries
- Construction
- Mining
- Oil and gas
- Renewable energy
- Machine tools
- 3D printing
- Aerospace
- Vehicles
Content types for machinery translation
Frequently translated documents for machinery and manufacturing
- Installation guides
- Instruction manuals
- Operating instructions
- Technical drawings (CAD files)
- Product descriptions and lists
- Product labels and packaging
- Technical reports
- Warning labels
- Health and safety guidelines
- Training materials
- Staff awareness manuals
- Legal materials
- Sales literature
Our machinery translation services
- Automation with a human in the loop
Why are automated solutions, specifically the integration of MT (machine translation), useful for machinery-related content? The technical language used in such documents is usually repetitive and straightforward, making it ideal for our cost-effective automated solutions.
But don’t worry, we make sure your content is checked by a human in all circumstances, as each of our solutions integrates a linguist into the workflow to check for linguistic or comprehension errors.
- Terminology management
We give you full control over your company’s specific terminology, working with you to define, classify and store it in a multilingual term base that ensures precision and accuracy throughout our entire collaboration, whether it’s just one project or a long-term partnership.
- Subject-matter experts
Our linguists are talented and experienced in working with content like yours, so if your content requires a keen eye from someone with specific industry expertise, whether it’s related to technical, legal or financial documents, we can help you.
- Quality assurance
Machinery translation needs to be entirely accurate, as people’s safety could be at risk. That’s why each translation is thoroughly checked for errors by our linguists, and the translation process is fully traceable back to the individual linguists involved. As the first UK company to achieve both ISO 17100 and ISO 18587 certifications, we will go above and beyond to deliver a quality that exceeds expectations.
Manufacturing and renewable energy
Renewable energy is a booming sector of the manufacturing and machinery industries, especially in the Nordic region. As of 2021, all Nordic countries meet at least one-third of their heating and cooling needs through renewable energy (Nordic Energy Research).
Whether your company manufactures products for renewable energy machines, such as wind turbine parts, or you use renewable energy to manufacture your products, our team can work with you on localising any related content.
Using machinery translation services is especially pertinent as international manufacturing regulations focus on lowering emissions and reducing pollution, and communicating your company’s sustainability goals is essential to your overall business strategy.
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