Engineering & 
Manufacturing Translation

A dedicated account manager oversees your account across all content types and languages. They maintain your glossary and translation memory, brief linguists consistently, manage deadlines across simultaneous projects and handle the coordination that large volumes of multilingual content require. The goal is to remove the burden of managing translation from your team, not add to it.

AI translation has an important role in engineering and manufacturing content, but that role requires human oversight. Safety documentation, technical manuals and installation procedures can all be translated using AI-assisted workflows, provided a qualified subject specialist reviews and corrects the output. The risk is not AI. The risk is unchecked AI. A fluent translation that contains a technical error looks correct to anyone who does not know the subject. The maintenance engineer in the field does not know. They follow the document. Marketing and brand content is a different matter: AI cannot reliably deliver brand voice, cultural nuance or creative judgment, and the output shows. For that content, human translation is the right starting point, not a quality check at the end.

Yes. HR content requires cultural awareness as well as linguistic accuracy. A policy translated correctly but in the wrong register for the target culture reads as impersonal, legalistic or dismissive, none of which is the intent. We work with linguists who understand the HR context in the target market, not just the language, and who can adapt tone appropriately while maintaining the meaning and intent of the original document.

We select linguists on subject knowledge as well as language. For engineering and manufacturing content we work with linguists who have backgrounds in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial manufacturing and related disciplines. A linguist who does not understand what they are translating cannot reliably translate it, regardless of their language skills. We do not assign general translators to specialist technical content.

We build and maintain a subject-specific glossary and translation memory for every client. This means the same term is used consistently across every document, every language and every project, regardless of when the work is done or which linguist handles it. For engineering and manufacturing clients with large product ranges, this compounds in value over time: the more we translate, the more consistent and efficient the output becomes.

The decision turns on what the content is trying to do. Technical and safety documentation can be handled efficiently with AI-assisted translation where a human specialist reviews the output for accuracy and terminology. HR communications and internal content work well with the same approach, with closer human attention for anything sensitive or complex. Marketing and brand content needs to be human-led from the start: brand voice, tone and cultural resonance cannot be reliably added at the post-editing stage. We advise on the right approach for each content type before the project begins, not after the budget has been spent on the wrong workflow.

Yes. We handle multilingual desktop publishing in-house for InDesign, Word and PDF documents. Technical manuals are often complex layouts with diagrams, callouts, numbered procedures and multiple columns. Translated text expands or contracts significantly between languages, which breaks layouts built for English. We return documents that are ready to publish, not translations that need rebuilding by a separate DTP team.