Tuesday, December 31, 2013

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) compliance check and editing services – get professional advice from the experts**

Given the success of STE and its adaptability, it was over time applied to various document types, and increasingly also in other (mainly technical) industries. Where in the aerospace and defence industries, safety, efficiency and readability are the main considerations for the use of STE, in many other industries, such as machinery, automotive, electronics, IT and medical equipment, another important consideration is to save on translation cost without compromising on translation quality.

With over 30 years of joint experience in technical documentation, we would like to invite you to send us some of your documents for a one-time free evaluation and a sample of the text rewritten in STE.

**This offer is valid only for technical companies, not for agencies. Files should be sent from a corporate e-mail account. Your data will remain confidential and will not be shared with third parties. Shufra Ltd. reserves the right to decline the evaluation at its discretion.


This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.
www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Multilingual documentation quality assurance

Rheinmetall AG, a global player in the markets for automotive components and defence equipment has selected Shufra Consultancy’s multilingual technical support capabilities for its Boxer ILS package. The Boxer is a  German-Dutch multirole armoured fighting vehicle designed to accomplish a number of operations through the use of replaceable mission modules.

One of Shufra’s technical experts was on-site to provide documentation consultancy and carry out technical editing and translation work as one of few companies worldwide that support technical translation work based on the S1000D international specification for technical publications in the required languages. 

As Europe’s foremost supplier of army technology and a longstanding partner of the armed forces, Rheinmetall AG prides itself in setting the global standard for product excellence. Said Dr Frans Wijma, owner of Shufra Consultancy, “We are very pleased to have Rheinmetall AG on board as a defence customer. This is a testament to Shufra’s professionalism and reputation in the fields of technical writing, multilingual documentation management, relevant standards and industry expertise. We will certainly continue to provide the highest quality technical content that reduces down-time and ensures round-the-clock operations in mission-critical operations.”

This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.


www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Monday, October 14, 2013

Shufra invites you to a 2-day ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training in Dubai, UAE

Join this professional training opportunity to learn about international documentation standards and achieve:
  • Cost savings
  • Reduced translation cost
  • Professional improvement
  • Quality assurance
  • Compliance
  • Competitive advantage
  • Shorter time-to-market and downtime
Shufra's training has been fully updated to support the latest version of the specification - Issue 6, January 2013.

Topics

Simplified Technical English will greatly improve the quality of your documentation and help you achieve considerable time and cost savings. This standard regulates the language used in technical publications, making text easier to understand, less ambiguous and more consistent. STE greatly improves translation quality and provides a perfect basis for multilingual translation, saving cost while achieving optimum quality.
See our case study to learn more about the cost savings associated with Simplified Technical English.

When

The STE course will be held on 3 and 4 November 2013, from 9.00 till 16.00 h.

Where

Dubai, UAE

Who we are

Shufra was founded by seasoned industry experts who work according to international standards and have extensive experience in many industries, including aerospace, defense, electronics, machinery, medical equipment, banking and telecommunications.
Please contact us for more information or to register.

This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.
www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Friday, August 30, 2013

Lufthansa Systems chose Shufra ASD-STE100 training

Lufthansa Systems FlightNav Inc. Zürich recommends the professional and qualified ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training provided by Dr. Frans Wijma from Shufra Consultancy.
Lufthansa Systems FlightNav, a provider of one-stop flight navigation services, with more than a hundred customers worldwide, recently engaged the ASD Simplified Technical English training services of Shufra Consultancy.

Correct and easy to understand information is essential to safe flight operations and increasingly, our customer deals with countries where English is at best a second language and the aim is to communicate with aviation professionals globally where language is a facilitator rather than a burden.

Realising the advantages of a trained STE writer over checker tools

Simplified Technical English or ASD-STE100 is an aerospace specification that provides guidelines for creating standardised, unambiguous and accurate documentation. By adopting a standardised writing approach, cost savings of 30% can be expected. 

Course participants see the ASD-STE100 language standard not merely as a cost reduction strategy, but also as a fundamental prerequisite for precise and safe navigation during flight. Shufra’s ASD-STE100 training class has been customised on every occasion to meet our customers’ specific professional requirements, as well as to encourage and mould technical writers’ creativity. 

Our Simplified Technical English training achieves 75% of the benefits and results of an approach that focuses on checker software, bearing in mind that the indiscriminate use of checker software available in the market without proper guidance will do more harm than good.


This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.
www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Shufra invites you to a 2-day ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training in Dubai, UAE for aviation and aerospace professionals

Join this professional training opportunity to learn about international documentation standards and achieve:
  • Cost savings
  • Reduced translation cost
  • Professional improvement
  • Quality assurance
  • Compliance
  • Competitive advantage
  • Shorter time-to-market and downtime
Shufra's training has been fully updated to support the latest version of the specification - Issue 6, January 2013.

Targeted industries

  • Aviation
  • Aerospace
  • Defence

Topics

Simplified Technical English will greatly improve the quality of your documentation and help you achieve considerable time and cost savings. This standard regulates the language used in technical publications, making text easier to understand, less ambiguous and more consistent. It addresses human factors, including those related to flight safety. STE greatly improves translation quality and provides a perfect basis for multilingual translation, saving cost while achieving optimum quality.

When

The STE course will be held on 3 and 4 June 2013, from 9.00 till 16.00 h.

Where

Dubai, UAE

Who we are

Shufra was founded by seasoned industry experts who work according to international standards and have extensive experience in many industries, including aerospace, defense, electronics, machinery, medical equipment, banking and telecommunications.
Please contact us for more information or to register.

This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.
www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Because the best product is only as good as its documentation – streamlining your documentation processes with a practical content strategy

Case study

Our customer, the Finn-Power Group, established in 1969, is a multinational group of companies specialising in sheet metal working technology with 2 manufacturing sites in Italy, 1 in the US and 1 in Finland. 

Industry concerns

Safety starts with quality. The best product is only as good as its documentation and technical data made available to the customer. Customer documentation is a vital and integral part of Finn-Power’s comprehensive range of machinery. Most crucially, the documentation needs to do its part to ensure the safe and correct use of the product by providing complete, accurate and effective information.

Additionally, with the EU machinery directive in place and the EU now comprising of 28 countries, there is a regulatory need for clear and accurate translation into many different languages as well as specific, safety-related content

Using Simplified Technical English ASD-STE100 to create user content 

To make content easier to understand as well as faster and cheaper to translate, Dr Frans Wijma gave training to Finn-Power’s team of technical translators, writers and documentation manager in the rules and practical application of this international standard. Course participants did a complete rewrite of selected sample documents in Simplified Technical English. 

Finn-Power has successfully implemented ASD-STE100 since 2010 with the continuous support from the team at Shufra.

ASD-STE100 standardises vocabulary, grammar and style, while letting companies control their specific terminology (Technical Names). The ASD-STE100 standard is widely used in industries ranging from aerospace to IT, consumer electronics, automotive and machinery

The next step – formulating/designing a useful information structure

Taking on the other important aspect of documentation is the structural reuse of content and optimizing technical means for reuse. With all their business requirements in mind, Finn-Power was looking for a highly intuitive, low-threshold content management solution (CMS).

We tapped into our partner network and found Author-it to be the perfect fit with the customer’s requirements as it includes a translation management module that allows users to efficiently and effectively manage multilingual content. Author-it allows you to reuse content with a high level of granularity. While most CMS systems just let you reuse whole blocks of text, Author-it allows for text reuse on the sentence level, doing away with the need to define portions of text intended for reuse.

Said Ms Hanna Korpinen, Manager of R&D and Documentation: ”Now that we have also taken on this other important aspect of documentation, we are better positioned to provide quality documentation to our customers on-time and within budget!


This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.

www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Simplified Technical English training at HansemEUG

Dr Frans Wijma, a well-known authority in the field of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, was invited to speak and provide training services at Hansem EUG Inc, a leading provider of content and user manual development services in Korea. 

During this three-day Simplified Technical English (STE) training session and workshop, Dr Wijma introduced STE writing rules to course participants through a series of engaging and interactive writing and rewriting exercises. Course participants were given the opportunity to examine and thoroughly consider selected parts of technical documentation. This was followed by a complete rewrite of sample documents in Simplified Technical English, where participants were able to explore the benefits and ROI of using the STE writing standard.

Feedback from our course participants includes the following: “I was at first skeptical of the advantages that STE will bring as it seemed to have mainly been used in the aerospace & defence industry. This intensive three-day training course has changed my opinion and certainly helped to sharpen my technical writing skills tremendously!” “This workshop has equipped me with the right kind of STE knowledge and skill sets to move forward confidently in my role as a technical writing team leader. I am glad that I was able to attend this course!” “With our training in STE by Shufra, we can achieve faster, better and cheaper translations.

This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.
www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here:

Monday, May 27, 2013

ASD-STE 100 集中学習講座 6/27 (木)、6/28 (金) の 2 日間 in 名古屋



ASD-STE 100 集中学習講座
6/27 ()6/28 () 2 日間 in 名古屋 (会場未定)

● 対象
英文ライター、日英翻訳者、英文品質管理者、多言語展開管理者
- ASD-STE 100の導入に興味がある、または導入されている企業
- 多言語翻訳の品質向上、コスト削減を目指している企業
● 日時
2013627 ()28 ()、午前10:00 〜 午後5:30
● 会場
未定(名古屋市内の予定)
● 講師
Dr. Frans Wijma (Shufra LLC) ASD-STE 100コンサルタント
● 備考
少人数での集中学習講座(最大10名を予定) ※講座の進行はすべて英語となります。
● 協力
アクロリンクス株式会社

ASD-STE 100 とは、簡潔な技術英文を書くための仕様。シンプリファイドイングリッシュとも呼ばれる。短文化、明瞭化、語彙規制などにより、可読性の向上、コスト・制作期間の削減を実現できる。

ASD-STE 100のポイント:   

● テクニカルイングリッシュの業界標準のひとつ
66の英文ライティングルール
● 約900の基本語彙
● 運用現場で決定する許容用語 (技術名詞、技術動詞) の管理ガイドライン

講座で学習する内容のポイント

ASD-STE 100 の基本と仕様の構造
ASD-STE 100 文法ルールの解説
ASD-STE 100 基本語彙と独自許容用語
● ライティングと編集の演習

講師Dr. Frans Wijma略歴

電気工学と言語学のバックグラウンドをもつ。ASD-STE 100の数少ない専門家として、世界中のグローバル企業にASD-STE 100にかかわるコンサルテーション、関連サービスを提供している。多言語翻訳の現場にも詳しく、現地にとって誤解がなく、わかりやすい英文を書く方法論を展開している。

お申し込み方法

事務局担当 柳 英夫 (hideo.yanagi@gcubellc.com) までメールにてお問い合わせください。
 

事務局:ジーキューブ合同会社 東京都渋谷区渋谷1−8−3 TOC第1ビル8階
tel: 050-5532-3390 fax: 050-3730-0402

This site is no longer maintained

You may be interested in the following links:
www.shufrans-techdocs.com for all technical documentation and publication needs.
www.asd-ste100.net for Simplified Technical English expertise.

www.asd-ste100.solutions for Simplified Technical English training & consultancy services.

International training workshops can be found here: