In technical translation, a wrong unit or a poorly chosen term can stop a production line. That is why our technical translation services put your technical documentation (manuals, specifications, patents, safety procedures, e-learning or software) in the hands of native translators who know the terminology of your field. They work with glossaries built for your projects and approved by you, and check every measurement, conversion and currency. At the levels that include revision, before delivery, a second specialist carries out an independent revision, as required by ISO 17100, to which we are certified.
A maintenance manual, a patent or a validation report is not translated like any other text. Whoever translates it has to know the field, be it engineering, medicine or IT, and use the exact term, not a similar one.
Technical documentation is any text that someone will use to assemble, operate, repair, approve or protect a product. In technical translation, that includes instruction and maintenance manuals, engineering specifications, validation reports, patents, safety procedures, e-learning and software.
The steps are always the same. What changes from level to level is how much control we add. At the levels that include revision, the document goes through two people, both native speakers of the target language and specialised in your industry. ISO 17100 requires that the reviser is not the translator. At the translation-only level, there is no independent revision.
Translation and revisionAfter translation, another specialist reads the whole text against the original and corrects whatever is needed. Every sentence goes through two people.
Manuals, technical data sheets and catalogues repeat a lot of sentences. That is where machine translation really pays off. We use private engines, trained on your terminology, and a post-editor goes through the whole text, sentence by sentence. This is called “full machine translation post-editing” (MTPE), and our process is certified to ISO 18587.
What matters in a manual changes from industry to industry. In a pharmaceutical plant, it is the traceability of every stage. In an aircraft hangar, it is carrying out every maintenance step exactly as written. Choose your industry and see real projects we have worked on.
Regulatory submissions, IFU, manufacturing SOPs and labelling, with EDQM and MedDRA terminology applied and verified
Maintenance manuals, specifications and protocols, with terminology aligned with the NATO Glossary and STANAG standards
HSE manuals, procedures and signage, with units and standards checked
Interface strings and API documentation, integrated into your CI/CD and your TMS
Patents and claims, with consistent terminology throughout the document
Product documentation, whitepapers and specifications, with values, currencies, dates and formulas checked before release
What you receive when the project closes, and what you can keep using afterwards
The translated document in the same format it arrived in, with the formatting, drawings and diagrams preserved. If the layout has to be redone, we handle the DTP, which is quoted separately.
Our ground rule is a glossary approved by you and maintained from project to project, so that the same component always has the same name in the manual, the interface and the training materials.
Everything we translate goes into your project’s translation memory. Repeated sentences are not paid for in full again, and each new project tends to be faster and cheaper. The memory and the glossary are available to you whenever you ask for them.
We deliver the record of every stage, with names, dates and versions, and the LQA report when the level includes it, all ready to show an auditor.
We connect to your TMS (XTM, memoQ or Trados, for example) and your CMS, via API or connectors, and deliver at the pace of your work cycles.
Every sector has its own standards, risks and deadlines. See how we apply technical translation to yours, through real cases.
