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SAE J2450 State-of-the-Industry
Quality Assurance ProcessMaking your translation quality
as reliable as your brakes
Pioneers in Statistical Quality ControlAt Language Arts & Science we know our
quality is better, because we measure it.
So how do we know we really deliver better quality?
Because we measure our translation quality.
Language Arts & Science executives played an
instrumental part in the development of the SAE
J2450 Translation Quality Metric. Under Language
Arts & Science leadership this standard evolved
from a technical paper, to a recommended practice
and finally to an SAE standard.
In developing this metric Language Arts & Science
had specific goals in mind; to reduce the amount of
subjective quality objections a translation typically
generates, to create an objective system in identifying
error types and a tool to direct you on where to focus
your quality improvement activities.
By measuring translation quality we learn where
to emphasis our quality improvement activities.
This metric helps you catalog error types and better
identify where your quality problems are.
Data can be prepared in easy-to-understand graphs
to get all translators and proofreading working from
the same data. Root cause analysis can be performed
and improvement activities can be focused on the
right error problems.
Language Arts & Science measures initial translation
and translations after post-editing and proofreading.
According to recent translation research
49% of errors are incorrect terminology
Initial quality can be benchmarked and quality targets
established to give all team members quality goals to
work towards.
Language Arts & Science uses industry standards
from many different sources, from organizations that
serve specific industries to translation standards to
deliver higher quality translations.
At Language Arts & Science, our commitment to
quality starts before we translate a single word.
Language Arts & Science’s quality assurance
process includes an innovative combination of
industry-expert linguists, state-of-the-art translation
management systems and a quality management
process that produces noticeably better quality.
Language Arts & Science’s commitment to statistical
process control allows clients to benchmark the
translation quality they receive from Language Arts &
Science. Using statistical process control Language
Arts & Science troubleshoots root causes to meet
and exceed customer translation quality targets.
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