Our oldest clients are engineering firms and technical consultancies — many of them active in the machinery, automotive, and manufacturing sectors that Italy is known for worldwide.

What we translate

From operating manuals to maintenance logs, engineering product documentation comes in many shapes, and we have handled all of them since 1997. Typical project types for our engineering clients include:

• User and maintenance manuals for machinery and industrial equipment
• Engineering drawings, schematics, and technical specifications
• Safety data sheets, risk assessments, and compliance documentation
• Product datasheets, brochures, and technical marketing materials
• Tender documentation and bid responses for international projects

The engineering translation challenge

Engineering translation is unforgiving: a wrong measurement, a mistranslated warning, or an ambiguous instruction can have real-world consequences. Precision matters as much as fluency, and terminology consistency across a project — or across a whole product range — is non-negotiable. We build and maintain terminology glossaries for every client, so the same term is always translated the same way, from the first page to the last.

Talk to us about your engineering translation project. We will work with your terminology, your style, and your deadlines — and we will flag anything that looks wrong before it reaches your readers.

A fundamental aspect of translating texts for the engineering industry is that translations need to be absolutely error-free and totally faithful in substance and form: a single departure from the source could be the cause of operating problems, costly hold-ups or even injuries. Therefore, the word reliability takes on an entirely different meaning as it can make the difference between profitability and loss.

By handling engineering projects in various sectors, from machinery to automotive to construction to power systems, we have learnt how to approach different fields on their own terms and to meet the strict requirements of our clients’ and still produce manuals, user guides, operating handbooks, datasheets, specifications and certificates/declarations of conformity that meet the relevant international and European standards.

The use of Computer Assisted Translation tools ensures that consistency, accuracy and meticulousness are complied with easily and effortlessly, and that the accumulated translation work carried out can be used to relieve the client of further costs for updates and rewrites.

What follows is a sample of our end clients in these fields: