Understanding Engineering Translations
The engineering services sector in the UK is expected to reach a revenue of $225.9 billion by 2030.
The sector is one of the UK’s broadest, encompassing a wide range of disciplines within the industry, and a huge range of organisations working across each area. Engineering is a highly globalised sector, established across every corner of the world, creating a critical requirement for engineering translation services across the industry.
How engineering translations turn the cogs of the sector
At Andiamo, we specialise in supporting automotive, mechanical, electrical, civil and chemical engineering organisations, with high-quality, accurate engineering translations that break-down communication barriers, and make your important content available to non-native speaking and international teams, partners, clients and customers.
How high-quality translation services benefit engineering organisations
- Accurate, technical, specialist terminology – Giving you the assurance that your manuals, user guides, product brochures, catalogues, reports, training content, proposals and beyond, have been accurately translated. At Andiamo, we are technical translation specialists and only use the most skilled, experienced, sector-specialist translators to conduct our engineering translations.
- Supporting the consistency of terminology – LSPs use Translation Memory software and CAT tools which support the consistency of your translations over time. Andiamo! encourage further collaboration, in the form of glossaries of terminology, to ensure translations are consistent with your existing content.
- Flexible solutions – For appropriate technical engineering translation projects, machine translation services can be a great cost and time-saving solution. At Andiamo, we offer machine translation post-editing (MTPE), where machine output is edited by a sector-specialist, mother tongue translator to offer a quality approaching that of human translation.
- Supporting your compliance – Working with the right LSP, like Andiamo, can ensure your compliance with local and international regulations to help facilitate product approval, support international growth, and help you meet ISO, ANSI and CE standards.
- Culturally appropriate translations – We believe accurate translations are localised translations. Working with an LSP experienced in localisation is critical to ensuring your engineering translations are appropriate for the culture of your target market.
- ISO Standards – By working with an accredited LSP like Andiamo, with ISO standards (including ISO 17100:2015), you can be sure that your trusted provider and their service, complies with your supply chain requirements.
- Quality Assurance – Different LSPs will approach quality assurance in different ways. At Andiamo, our Gold Service (which offers ISO 17100:2015-compliant translations) is our ultimate QA solution, offering a 3-stage checking process (more on this below).
What does translation look like across the engineering sector?
Engineering translation projects are largely technical in nature, however, the content itself can be as varied as:
- Equipment, operation, safety and installation manuals.
- User guides
- Product brochures and catalogues
- CAD drawings and engineering diagrams
- Data sheets
- Specifications
- Reports
- Proposals
- Tender documentation
- Training content (including video subtitles)
- Websites
- Typesetting
The risks of ineffective engineering translations
While effective, high-quality, accurate engineering translations help turn the cogs of the engineering sector, the risks of ineffective translation services are enormous:
- Safety issues with serious consequences, such as accidents, injuries, and potential legal claims.
- Financial losses due to downtime fixing translation errors, due to machine downtime and misinterpretation of instructions, product recalls and time redoing translations.
- Translation errors in technical documentation could hinder your compliance with contractual standards or regulatory compliance.
- Significant delays in shipping machinery/equipment to customers due to fixing translation errors.
- Poor engineering translations could damage your brand’s reputation, and create a loss of trust with customers and clients.
The Andiamo! approach
- We source skilled, assessed, technical, mother tongue translators who are highly experienced in engineering translations, and have a good knowledge of the sector’s terminology.
- Our team uses translation memory software and CAT tools to maintain the consistency of your terminology, to support reader clarity and understanding.
- We work closely with you to receive your preferred terminology, glossaries, and reference materials of any previously translated content in your brand voice.
- We localise units and measurements to ensure they are culturally appropriate for your target market. If your content requires a full localisation process, we can advise on the localisation of every element of your content, including colours and imagery, to help you avoid cultural faux-pas and ensure cultural accuracy and appropriateness. If full localisation is necessary, this will be included in your quote.
- Post translation, we run internal QA checks to support translation quality. For further QA, our Gold Service offers a 3-stage checking process. The first by the sector-specialist translator conducting the translation, a second check by a further sector-specialist translator, and a third by our in-house linguists.
- At Andiamo, we can support you with more than engineering translations. We’re your single partner for all your language service needs. This includes offering a dedicated typesetting service to transform your translations into their print and reader-ready format. We include in-house QA checks as part of this service to ensure accuracy and that the format remains as clear as the original source files.
Why Andiamo?
When you work with us, you can rest assured that engineering translation specialists, and technical translation experts, are working to support your organisation and its growth.
Andiamo! provides all clients with a dedicated project manager to guide the timely completion of your engineering translations, and act as your point of contact to answer any queries you may have.
Beyond our 35+ years of experience, we hold multiple ISO certifications (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 17100:2015, ISO 14001:2015), and are audited externally to maintain these standards and demonstrate our commitment to quality.
Contact our friendly team today to discuss how we can support you with your translation projects.
