Buying translation services from multiple providers can lead to chaos and won’t give you the best value for money. MEINRAD explains why, and outlines the drawbacks and risks of a decentralized approach.

In the medical industry, you can’t just produce a label with some warnings and information and then stick it on a medical product. As anyone who’s familiar with labelling knows, there are strict regulatory requirements that have to be met across the board. For patients and users of medical products, safety is the number one priority – but how can...

Translation agencies are ten a penny – just google “translation agency” and you’ll quickly see how hard it can be to choose between them. So how do you find the perfect partner, and how can you scrutinize how they work to ensure you make the right decision?

Although every technical editor knows the importance of terminology when it comes to consistent, high-quality translations, often there isn’t the budget or the resources to take terminology projects seriously. But managing your terminology doesn’t have to be a mammoth undertaking. What you need more than anything else is a structured approach that...

As artificial intelligence makes more and more of an impact in the translation industry, machine translation is becoming increasingly important. But even though many translations are now produced using this workflow, people still have lots of questions about it. MEINRAD answers 20 of the most frequently asked questions about machine translation...

Today’s translations are produced using CAT tools. There are lots of them, so MEINRAD explains why we have sworn by memoQ for over ten years, and how it can benefit you.

Have you ever heard a translation agency talk about “badly formatted files” and wondered what that means? MEINRAD explains which elements in text design can cause problems in translation and increase what you pay.

The technical demands of the translation process might not be immediately apparent, but they can quickly become major challenges. That’s where Localization Engineers come in: with their technical expertise, they’re the first port of call if there are technical issues or problems, and they make the whole translation process easier. At MEINRAD, Ben...

If there’s one bit of technology that today’s professional language service providers can’t do without, it’s translation memory systems. They play a key role in enabling fast, consistent and cost-effective translations.