• General Electrics

    Project

    General Electric

    22,000 PAGES
    TIMEFRAME OF 70 DAYS
    IN-HOUSE LAYOUT DESIGN

01.

Document types

  • Contracts
  • Specifications of preliminary operations
  • Technical documentation for entire plants and plant safety instructions
  • Wiring and general plans, etc.
02.

Languages

  • From English to Italian
    (with the exception of contracts, from Italian to English)
  • Minor exceptions for French-Italian
    technical documentation
03.

Requirements

  • Demand for expert legal and technical knowledge
  • Diversified technical background: electrical, electronic, electro-mechanical
  • Energy sector know-how, with particular reference to turbines and cogeneration plants
Problem

Large volumes / large team numbers

SOLUTIONS

  1. Cognitive knowledge of text content and distributing work using commodity codes
  2. Creation of five small teams of translators each aided by a reviser
  3. Planning cognitive flows between the teams (no dispersion of knowledge)
  4. Creation of a query management system in conjunction with the client
Problem

Translation memory management

SOLUZIONI

  1. Identifying evening/night-time breaks for the purpose of processing the teams' different memories
  2. After cleaning, the corrected and harmonised memories are re-allocated
  3. Memory versioning management
Problem

Deadline overlaps at different stages of the process

SOLUTIONS

  1. Centralised management of the teams and associated communication flows; management of linguistic and non-linguistic queries
  2. Centralised style guides for the different teams
  3. Creation of an entire messaging system overseen by the project manager in order to coordinate the teams of linguists, proofreaders and layouters, thereby facilitating workflow