Manufacturing Magazine April 2015 | Page 19

INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING , LOCAL SUCCESS
Local translation is essential to global success
Translators with specialized technical experience are able to ensure a high quality of accuracy at speed , leaning on their familiarity of the industry to provide nuance without slowing down for clarification . Using the same translator consistently ensures a faster ramp-up , because you don ’ t have to re-educate a new linguist for each project .
Bringing in an engineer to support the translator also provides a valuable additional resource who can clarify key terms and measures if needed . And relying on a separate editor offers the opportunity for routine , quality spot-checks .
Break big projects into smaller pieces Some manufacturing localization projects can involve hefty technical or instructional documents , comprising hundreds of thousands of words . Localizing a document of that size could easily result in errorriddled content that will need to be painstakingly reviewed and corrected .
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