When you need Technical Translation Services you are looking at the best of the best.
A translation agency that delivers perfect Technical Translation Services needs to have the necessary technical know-how in the specific industry you are active in. The only way they can have that is by employing engineers and technical personnell that also has excellent language skills.
The Most Important Criteria When Chosing Technical Translation Services
For Technical Translation Services it’s more important to have a well versed engineer who knows his industry and the problems associated with it extremely well and who has worked in both languages that he has to translate. Language skills, even though they are important, are then only the second criteria when chosing the right translator.
Often technical translators are engineers and other technical personnell who have worked in the countries where the language they translate into of from is spoken. Several years of experience on the job, and an excellent command of the language in general usually result in translations that are technically correct and from a language point of view ok.
The Dangers That Technical Translation Services Need To Be Aware Of:
Especially when it comes to the translation of technical specifications or technical manuals, you eed to be 100% sure that all details are correctly translated and that the instructions contained in the foreign language manual are accurate. A wrong translation can result in wrong operations. This in turn might cause technical defects to equipment or machinery that cost a lot of money, or that nmight even cause injury or death of the people operating these equipments or machines. That’s how important good Technical Translation Services are!
You as a customer need to be sure that this will not happen. Thus make it a point to ask the Technical Translation Services office for references and past work examples that the translator has delivered in the past. By reading a few pages of translated material, you should get a good idea if the skills the translator has will be sufficient and come from the right industry to translate you material.
Technical Translation Services usually are well aware of this and will link you up with the right engineer for your problems, whilst ‘normal’ translation services sometimes don’t realize how difficult it can be to chose the right technical terms and simply translate the document in laymans language…. Needless to say that you will not get good marks from customers if you go that route, even if it might be a bit cheaper.
Technical Translation Services are expensive and the translation might take longer than a simple document – but the result will be what you expect, if you chose the experts.