Technical Translation Services

Engineering

The design, production, and use of engineering products demand documents that include design specifications, project proposals, progress reports, installation guides, and maintenance manuals. Translation errors can prove costly in time and money. Among the more common mistakes are inconsistent terminology, incorrect context, and the lack of a review before release.

We avoid these errors by relying on translators who are both native speakers and subject matter experts. Their language background produces culturally meaningful localization, and their in-depth knowledge of your industry delivers technically accurate and consistent content.

These native speakers also take charge of Quality Assurance (QA), through our ContentQuo cloud-based platform. Our Translation Management System integrates this QA system to enhance accuracy and consistency at scale.

Software

Technical documents for software are unique because they exist online or within the code in the form of online help, tooltips, video, and standalone PDF documents.

Automotive

Translating automotive content demands native language proficiency and subject matter expertise in automotive engineering. You can’t translate what you don’t understand. Mistranslations may compromise safety, such as when a technician or driver cannot understand what to do in an emergency. They may also affect profits when marketing brochures do not represent the culture of the target buyer.

Localization for this industry addresses audiences with different technical backgrounds:

Manufacturing

With sourcing of raw materials, production, assembly, distribution, and management happening across the world, it’s safe to say manufacturing is a major global enterprise. The documents needed to make the entire process go smoothly include project proposals, design manuals, operating instructions, safety reports, installation guides, and maintenance manuals. These materials must detail your products and services while complying with local regulations and exceeding customer expectations.

Andovar relies on professional translators who are also manufacturing experts to provide document solutions for all the languages used at every point of your process. We understand how manufacturing works and how to localize that information for different audiences, such as engineers, factory managers, and production workers.

Among the tools we can use are a Translation Management System, translation glossaries specific to your field, machine translation for high-volume projects, and the ContentQuo QA platform. They help our team ensure that your manufacturing project remains consistent and comprehensible across the world.

Medical

Medical translation involves content related to medicine, healthcare, pharmaceutical products, clinical trials, and medical devices. Many of the documents related to his industry must not only accurately explain complex conditions and technologies but must meet the standards imposed by government regulations.

A technically accurate understanding of what you produce can literally mean the difference between life and death for your audience. One of the most common issues involves abbreviations. An abbreviation may apply to multiple terms, or one term may have several abbreviations.

Data sheets

Feasability studies

Installation guides

Maintenance documents

Product brochures and catalogs

Safety reports

Scientific and technical articles

User manuals

Service manuals

Software help text

Standard operating procedures

Technical brochures

Training manuals

How do you ensure quality?

We ensure high quality by beginning with the right person for the job. We only assign native speakers of the target language and specialists in your industry to handle your technical translation project. Applicants for our translator positions must pass an exacting test that determines their skill and technical background. Only about 5 percent make it. They then undergo rigorous onboarding until they meet the high standards of customer service that set Andovar apart from the competition.

What file formats does Andovar work with?

We make technical translation as convenient as possible for you by working in the format you’re most comfortable with. We’re well-versed in the documentation software produced by Microsoft, Adobe, Corel, and Quark, among others. If you're used to different applications, we can either learn to use them or convert what we produce to your formats.

If you only have hard copies available, we use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert the text into an editable format. To guarantee faithfulness to the original, the scanned text goes through quality assurance before it is worked on.

What languages can you translate?

We work with 80 languages and 200 language pairs in many industries. Our offices in Singapore, the United States, Thailand, India, Hungary, and Colombia, can contact over 10,000 professional translators who take on your project anywhere in the world.

To make our efforts more efficient, we use a state-of-the-art Translation Management System (TMS), Translation Memory, Computer Assisted Translation tools, translation glossaries, a terminology management system, and machine translation for high-volume content. We then subject the project through a cloud-based QA platform called ContentQuo, which is integrated with our TMS to ensure consistency and accuracy at scale.

How do we prepare for technical translation?

Call Andovar in early, preferably during the planning process. We can then take care of much of the prep work. If you prefer to prepare your project at the start or if your project is complete except for localization, here are a few things you can do.

How do translators localize a project?

Although projects differ, our translators follow the same basic process for localization: