DTP & document translation of medical device

Project Brief:

Argos Translations was approached by the world's leading healthcare and medical device manufacturer with a medical document translation project. The project consisted of over 440K words of content needed to be translated into 11 languages, including: Polish, Czech, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Greek, Slovene and Turkish, along with additional Desktop Publishing work over various images contained in these documents.

In order to cost-effectively, efficiently and accurately tackle a project of such capacity, Argos designated a team of translators, DTP specialists, reviewers and localization engineers to work on the assignment.

The initial phase of the project required adaptation of the source files into a format suitable for use with Trados and Translation Memory tools, which helped enhance translation accuracy while simultaneously reducing translation costs. Then, a further 100K words needed translation by a dedicated team of translators and reviewers ensuring that all work was consistent with the source and target languages. Finally, once the language of all the materials was adapted, our DTP department started adjusting all images and design elements to fit/suit the translated content.

All in all, the project required roughly 330 hours of DTP work alone, and took about 12 weeks to complete. Even with a project of such magnitude, thanks to Argos' flexible processes and specialized teams, Argos managed to meet the client's required quality standards and complete all assigned work ahead of schedule.

Background Information:

1. Client’s Industry - Healthcare and Medical Devices Manufacture
2. Type of Product - Documentation and Manuals
3. Type of Project - Translation, DTP and Localization Engineering
4. Languages involved -

5. Amount of work - over 440,000 words
6. Time Frame - 12 weeks