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The precision of industry-specific expertise

Our SMG Sci-Tech linguistic services are tailored to meet your needs for technical translations and translations of scientific texts in all foreign languages. With certified quality and over 30 years of international experience, we deliver precision and reliability.

Technical Translations for Scientific and Industrial Texts, Manuals, Patents, Technical Drawings, and Websites

From manuals and projects to technical standards and catalogues, we offer translations produced by native-speaking translators and reviewers. These experts specialize in manufacturing and technology sectors, ensuring that every technical translation is accurate, compliant with industry standards, and tailored to your specific requirements.

Our main clients

Areas of expertise

Patents

The service is distinguished by the high degree of precision with which we identify the most appropriate terminology and describe your products, sentence by sentence. In the field of technical translations, we understand that nothing should be translated without first conducting extensive research, comparing sources, and applying the most appropriate linguistic style.

Technical drawings

We provide technical translations in foreign languages directly in the electronic formats requested by the client, for both Windows and Macintosh environments.

The translators at SMG Languages work directly with leading technical design software to ensure that no element is overlooked. This enables us to deliver multilingual technical drawings that are ready for use while also reducing turnaround times.

Manuals

Over the years, SMG has successfully addressed the significant technical and linguistic challenges that come with delivering an effective technical translation service for manuals.

When translating an industrial manual into a foreign language, the technical language used must be both precise and faithful to the original. To achieve this, a translation agency must have access to the most advanced multilingual editing and publishing technologies.

Websites

The invaluable expertise of SMG’s team of technical specialists and linguists is the cornerstone of an outstanding technical translation service. This expertise extends to the creation of multilingual websites for technical and technological products such as mechanical engineering components, electronic devices, industrial systems, and many other remarkable products of human ingenuity.

Certified Quality in Technical Translations

Our Quality Management System is ISO 9001 certified. The service conforms to standards ISO 17100, ISO 27001, UNI 10574, and UNI 15038, which ensure exceptional quality and rapid turnaround times, whatever the size of the job or the electronic format required.

The translations are produced by industry experts who understand every technical detail of the text, enabling them to translate it correctly into their native language.

A further aim of SMG is to precisely identify and maintain the specific terminology and style of each client in every translation we produce. This ensures accurate and consistent translation, which also promotes a positive company image, including in communications aimed at international audiences. To assist in effective communication, we have a strong global presence and therefore direct contact with a range of markets, guaranteeing that translations are customized to the client’s target market. Our localization service adapts documents to the specific target audience, while our globalization service adapts them to a global audience.

In-house Language Research Institute

As an ongoing guarantee of quality, our Scientific and Technical Translation team works with our Linguistic Research Institute, set up to monitor the latest developments in the relevant industries, and based on one simple principle: a translator must possess solid competence in the subject matter in order to understand it and produce a translation that meets the expectations of industry experts.

Global content management

On request, translated technical texts are stored in our Electronic Memory System, eliminating the need for retranslation when future updates or modifications are required.

The use of advanced technologies for managing multilingual technical content, tailored in collaboration with the client, allows us to maintain specific glossaries to standardize terminology, retrieve recurring text segments that have already been translated, and operate in a secure environment that protects sensitive information. In other words, we manage the client’s multilingual content with efficient turnaround times, improving quality while ensuring maximum confidentiality.

Graphics and technical translations that can be updated over time

Through the use of these advanced technologies, known as CAT Tools, we can streamline the creation of manuals, brochures, and catalogues and update them over time by integrating only modified and/or updated sections. This provides significant advantages to clients in terms of cost savings and reduced delivery times.

We also offer a professional desktop publishing service in all formats (InDesign, AutoCAD, etc.).

Urgent Technical Translations

At SMG, we provide 24/7 support to meet urgent translation needs. With our multilingual teams located across international centers, we efficiently manage large-scale industrial translation projects and urgent requests.

For major languages (English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese), we can translate hundreds of pages per day with advance notice and several dozen pages without advance notice.
Short texts can often be translated within just a few hours.

SMGDesk Digital Platform

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