Frustrating

[simso]

Got to love it, when you buy something and the instructions to run it are in chinese, or the instructions are for an earlier version which looks nothing like the new version. Or the keypads are written in chinese etc. Aggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,

Sorry had to vent

[charangohabsburg]

Or the keypads are written in chinese

Maybe this is the fastest way to learn chinese!

[Nick]

Over the last few years New Zealand having been importing large amounts of used cars from Japan, only problem is alot of the instructions for tuning the radio's, travel computers e.t.c were also in Japanese so unless you paid somebody to interpret the hyroglyphics, alot of people were driving around with 'unused' accessories.

[Allen]

Kiwi's can't figure out how to turn the radio on?

[J.F. Custom]

Wouldn't be that new CNC you were waiting on would it ??

Jeremy.

[charangohabsburg]

Imagine Steve wanted to program the machine to make something like this:



...and then the machine makes something like this!

[kiwigeo]

Over the last few years New Zealand having been importing large amounts of used cars from Japan, only problem is alot of the instructions for tuning the radio's, travel computers e.t.c were also in Japanese so unless you paid somebody to interpret the hyroglyphics, alot of people were driving around with 'unused' accessories.

I don't see the problem...most of the Japanese grey imports are being driven by boy racers who are generally too thick to understand any language.

[simso]

The last three purchases have been labelled in chinese, written in chinese and supplied with manuals that do not look like the machines.

Come on, how difficult can it be. Most of the world is in english, they can talk to you in english when trying to make the sales. But supply machines labelled in english.

Ive actually organised a person who can read chinese to try and decipher things for me, but they could not help out either. Go figure. Hence the aghhhhhhhhhh........

[kiwigeo]

The last three purchases have been labelled in chinese, written in chinese and supplied with manuals that do not look like the machines.

Come on, how difficult can it be. Most of the world is in english, they can talk to you in english when trying to make the sales. But supply machines labelled in english.

Ive actually organised a person who can read chinese to try and decipher things for me, but they could not help out either. Go figure. Hence the aghhhhhhhhhh........

Translating manuals from Chinese to English not as straight forward as it sounds and not a job that can be done by any Tom Dick or Harry. My brother in New Zealand makes a living as a translator....alot of his work is translating Japanese manuals into English. His qualifications..a Masters degree in Japanese and a considerable amount of time spent living in both NZ and Japan.

[Clancy]

You should try commissioning a new system in china where each little piece of equipment installed has a chinese representative with two chinese offsiders, non with any english.
My last week in fulltime work was spent in Beijing trying to get a new system running that involved new chillers, pumps, VSD's, valves, sensors, DDC, HLI, etc, all from different OEM's, all with different reps present for the week fiddling with my settings and generally stuffing things up.
My poor translator was having a hard time toning down the 'australian colloquialism' directed at each and every one of them.

Last month they asked me to go back again for a new install.
Having the choice is great.
I wrung them for everything I could get.
And then I declined.

[simso]

Yeh its difficult to say the least. My translator struggled as well, it has something to do not just with how its written but in what sense its written for or something like that

Example on one button he was saying ""this means is like by hand"", the button was power button for operating external controller

[kiwigeo]

Yeh its difficult to say the least. My translator struggled as well, it has something to do not just with how its written but in what sense its written for or something like that

Example on one button he was saying ""this means is like by hand"", the button was power button for operating external controller

Is your translator a native Chinese or English speaker? If you're translating into English then your best bet is a native English speaker who knows Chinese.

Technical translation is a specialised area of translation and often requires someone with experience in this field. My brother has trouble with medical translations so sometimes gets my wife who's a Japanese health professional to help him out. Likewise he's run a few Geology translation jobs past me for assistance at times.

[simso]

Ahh how do I work, me not know... mmm, expensive door stop

[simso]

English customer, so machine supplied in chinese

Manufacturing quality is excellent, software (chinese) is disappointing

[simso]

This machine has no instructions and is gathering dust at the moment, still waiting for manufacturer 3 mths later to supply mandrels for pickups

[Nick]

English customer, so machine supplied in chinese

Manufacturing quality is excellent, software (chinese) is disappointing

This is where the Asian Manufacturers let themselves down, they are manufacturing some good machine tools now (Budget dependant of course!) for worldwide markets but back it up with buggy,difficult & cheapish software. As of last year I have acess to a brand new CNC Mill, machine is made in Taiwan & extremely well made & scaryly accurate but the software we run it with is all American sourced through local agents as the original was as useful as proverbials on a bull. (three axis m/c and software only controlled x,y)
That pickup winder looks fairly flash, not something you'd want to randomly push buttons on & see what happens!

[Clancy]

.... not something you'd want to randomly push buttons on & see what happens!

Oh go on, Push The Buttons!