Technical and Operating Manuals

From the simplest of tools to the most complex system, all the instruments we have around bring an Owner's Manual and an Operation Manual that allow their buyers and users to take the most profit from their technical assets.

The translation of technical manuals for any purpose requires the highest accuracy and consistency in the vocabulary used as these are extremely important documents for machine knowledge and operation.

Not only is it important to make clear to users the way those instruments, apparatuses and machines have to be operated, but it is clear that their operation typically has implications on people and goods safety issues.

In this area, the most significant items in Translation Made Simple's track record include manuals for the operation of large equipment for Computer Aided Tomography and other imaging methods, crushing and grinding and other mineral processing and earth movement equipment and manuals and drawings for the assembly and operation of trains, aircraft and ships.

Quality Manuals and Procedures; Environmental Protection

The introduction, several years ago, of the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards series and the desire of many companies to become certified under these quality and environmental protection standards brought about the need to develop the documentation needed, both to submit to accreditation bodies (mostly foreign entities in the beginning) and the manual and procedure documents to make their operations conforming.

Translation Made Simple is proud to have been there to translate the manuals and procedures for the accreditation of most of the Research Centers in the INTI network (National Institute for Industrial Technology) and subsequently cooperate with the translation of accreditation maintenance audit reports, the opening and closing of nonconformities and the revision of their documents.

As regards the ISO 14000 series standards, TMS long standing experience translating for the main mining companies operating in Argentina, which are most deeply committed to environmental stewardship, has also furnished us the opportunity to translate a wide variety of documents related to environment issues.

Ethical Manuals and Codes of Conduct

The ethical and objectionable behavior events that have made the headlines in corporate and political news over the past years, revealing forged financial data reporting, severely overrated resource statements and obnoxious corruption incidents, led to intense activities intended to bring order into markets, corporate governance and public and private official behavior.

Thanks to a large client portfolio in very different markets, Translation Made Simple has led the way in translating manuals on business ethics and codes of conduct for diversity and against discrimination, against sexual harassment and bullying, breaches to confidentiality, expense policy and reporting and the truthfulness of cash and other asset transaction entries.

Scientific papers and news

No scientific or technological advance comes about without academic activity in different areas of human knowledge. And little can be done without the contribution of many agents who can build only upon facts known through their forerunners' and colleagues' work dissemination.

That is why the proficiency in translating scientific papers is so important in every academic and technological field, including medicine and pharmaceutics; physics, chemistry and biology; mathematics and computing.

And for the development of activities in both basic science and applied science or technology, performance tests, composition and failure analyses, operation and functionality trials and other forms of evaluation are implemented, with their results ascertaining every step in the creation and usage, and recorded in reports and other forms of communication that need translation.

Whether to communicate advances through academic production work, to disseminate progress to the general public or to reach interested audiences, Translation Made Simple has rendered its services and translated countless scientific and technical papers, press releases and technology and information pieces and, for more than ten years provided the translation into Spanish of scientific and technological news distributed as content to hundreds of websites by an international news agency focused on technology and finance.

Chemical Analysis, Testing and Audit Reports

Owing to their extended experience working for all types of 'hard' industries as well as for various private and government-owned laboratories, Translation Made Simple has taken care of the translation of material testing reports, and results of chemical analyses conducted for various purposes including internal quality controls, certification of characteristics and functionalities, acceptance inspection procedures.

In the auditing area, documents are produced for export approval, loss claim adjustment and scores of acts implemented to attest characteristic compliance and/or damages suffered.

Commercial correspondence and Power Point presentations

All companies need to communicate with suppliers and customers. Translation Made Simple has set for itself a set of missions, among which stands out that of facilitating interaction between the actors in all types of transactions, being aware that any business needs to show its skills and efficiency in order to gain credibility in its market.

An additional means that companies use to communicate their financial and technological achievements and also, to train their staff, is the production of Power Point presentations that are discussed in conferences or posted on the Internet. Working with this word and image processor calls for certain additional skills that TMS's professional translators have been able to develop over time.

Agreements and other legal texts

Agreements are legal instruments used in all sorts of transactions to express, in very specific language, provisions, representations and warranties whose format and content has become familiar to TMS's professionals. Thanks to this expertise, we can assure the most accurate expression in every language, to express the spirit and the letter of the parties' intentions.

Aside from real estate, asset and infrastructure leases, shareholders' agreements, trust indentures, supply and service agreements, and many more, we at Translation Made Simple have developed and tuned our skills in the translation of settlement and release agreements, as well as every kind of instrument for legal submissions in judicial or administrative venues and the respective decisions or orders issued by competent authorities.

Bidding terms and conditions, administrative and business documents

As is well known, most of large contracts for the provision of supplies and services, whether in the private sphere or the public arena, are conducted through bidding processes seeking to minimize costs and define with utmost accuracy the requirements and specifications for the products and services under the contracts to be awarded. Translation Made Simple has actively participated in the translation and preparation of bidding terms and conditions for the privatization of utilities and state-run and private company's purchases.

Bid proposals, many a time submitted by joint ventures consisting of companies of different origins, have had to be turned into a single language, through our translation of technical specifications, business brochures and abundant references of the most diverse industries.

Personal documents, study certificates, powers-of-attorney, meeting minutes, public translations

Another group of documents that need to be translated, whether for residing or studying abroad or foreigners who come to our country, are personal identification documents and certificates of study, which in Argentina require, by law, the intervention of a translator registered with the Sworn Translators' Association.

In like manner, companies from abroad doing business in the local market, whether through a branch or by the incorporation of a local subsidiary, need their representatives to be duly authorized under the corresponding powers-of-attorney and company meeting minutes.

Translation Made Simple can offer a number of professionals registered with the Sworn Translators' Association, who are authorized to attest to the information reflected in all public documents that need to be submitted to any offices.

Financial statements and annual reports

Companies operating in capital markets as well as those in business with local and global banks need to maintain their business and financial information updated to show the results of their operations.

We, at TMS take pride in a wide experience translating into and from different languages the financial reports of various industries and origins, which has helped us accumulate a large body of knowledge of the different variants of the financial language across Latin American markets.

In turn, such large experience in translating this type of documents has added to our reliability as regards the precision and accuracy in the transcript of figures, which make us a key actor in the control of the information distributed.

Not only are updated financial statements necessary to large corporations listed on the different markets, which are mandated to report such information, but also to small companies seeking to partner with banks or investors for the development of their businesses.

Debt issuance prospectuses and documentation; investment in different industries

TMS Traducciones ha estado involucrada en la emisión de deuda de muchas de las empresas que en su momento intervinieron en la privatización de servicios en la Argentina, trabajando codo con codo con los estudios contables y legales que asesoraban para la preparación de los documentos necesarios.

Ello nos ha dado un amplio conocimiento y familiaridad con la forma de expresión para prospectos, contratos de fideicomiso, letras, deuda de corto, mediano y largo plazo, obligaciones negociables, swaps y otros títulos valores.

Para esas emisiones, se nos ha requerido además, traducir extensos análisis de mercado, descripciones y diagnósticos de la realidad económica argentina, informes de riesgo, etc.

En el mismo cuadro de inversiones en el país y el exterior, TMS Traducciones ha producido documentos traducidos de legislación y piezas regulatorias para mercados específicos tales como electricidad, gas y petróleo, explotación minera y otros.