The EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) was fully implemented on May 26, 2021, replacing the previous directives and setting more stringent requirements for the safety, performance, and quality of medical devices in the EU. This regulation has brought significant changes to the medical technology industry, aiming to enhance patient information level and safety. As of…
In our last blog post, we talked about the role of interpreting services in the nuclear industry. Interpreters make multilingual audits possible and reliable. The audits themselves play a critical role in ensuring the safety of a nuclear installation. In this post, we’ll discuss how you can hire professional interpreters for nuclear industry audits, what…
Nuclear safety audits are crucial for maintaining security within the nuclear industry. They are generally conducted by government bodies, nuclear regulatory agencies, international organizations (WANO, IAEA) or independent experts to ensure the objectivity and integrity of each audit. These audits may yield recommendations for improvements, penalties for non-compliance, or certificates of compliance, if the facility…
More and more of our clients are using neural machine translation to translate sensitive content, via online tools. What precautions should be taken, what content should be protected and how, and what quality criteria should be followed to determine if human review is needed? When it comes to translating sensitive content using neural machine translation…
Mining companies are global in nature. They operate and excavate precious resources in one part of the world and send them to other parts of the world. Their headquarters are often not located in the country of operation. Consequently, their staff are spread out throughout the world, hail from different cultures and countries, and speak…
Mining companies perform the critical job of serving the world’s energy and industrial needs. So much so that the smartphone that each one of us carries is made possible because of the rare metals mined. However, mining companies are also under pressure to perform their job in a way that is sustainable to the earth.…
Mining is a highly regulated industry. The regulations can themselves be influenced by changes in the global economy and environment. Case in point: the pandemic. However, other significant factors like rising awareness about the environmental impact of mining keeps the regulatory process dynamic. The rules also tend to be different from country to country and…
Customer Talk #3: Machine and Human Translation, a winning duo for localized digitization Recently, Laurence Roguet, Managing Director of Lexcelera, talked to Gaëlle Bou, Chief Revenue Officer of Systran, about machine and human translation. Lexcelera self-trains NMT engines and it leads to significant quality improvement. Laurence said that training an NMT engine is like teaching…
E-learning continues to be on an upward trend globally. It has opened up many an opportunity amidst the pandemic for people to pursue their professional education dreams, upskill themselves, or simply learn something new. For global companies, the online medium provides a great opportunity to continuously train their employees and keep them in sync with…
Gurdeep Pandher dances in Canada in September 2021. Photo by Stewart Burnett Photography. When Gurdeep Pandher dances, it doesn’t matter if you have a dozen left feet. It doesn’t matter if you have never seen Bhangra in your life before. It doesn’t matter what language you speak, which culture you’re from. It doesn’t even matter…