ISO 17100 defines the requirements for quality Translation Services, including the competence of key roles including the translators themselves, revisers, reviewers and project managers. While there are several ways to demonstrate translator competence including formal qualifications and experience, the competence of a specialist language services project managers is harder to evidence. This blog looks [...]
ATC Certification is pleased to announce our latest partnership, developing specialist Language Industry ISO Certification in Arabic and German speaking countries. Dr. Mohamed-Ali Ibrahim has a wealth of experience in the language industry and has run the Austrian based “International Localization Industry Certification System” (i-LICS) for over 17 years. Over the past two years, Dr. [...]
Lengoo enquired with ATCC for a certification transfer, to combine their three ISO standards to one certification body. After Lengoo combined these certifications through a transfer audit with ATCC, we spoke to Alina Hartsch about how Lengoo found the audit process with us. Why did you choose to become ISO certified? At Lengoo, we strive [...]
Planet Languages is an ISO-certified language services provider established nearly 30 years ago, in 1994. Their business philosophy then was the same as it is today – to focus on integrity, quality and first-class service. They are firm believers in the value that ISO certification adds to their business and are certified to five ISO [...]
Prolangs Inc. is a company based in South Korea. They provide localization services of every language in the world, specialising in subtitling, desktop publishing and printing. We spoke to the Prolangs Project Manager, Jungmee An, and asked some questions about their ISO Certification project and how they found working with ATCC since receiving their ISO [...]
ASTW is a Language Service Provider, specialised in translation of all kinds of documents from the Legal, Technical, and Life Sciences industries. Their internal and external team have years of experience and expertise in each related sector. We spoke to the ASTW Project Manager, Elisa Formisano, and asked them some questions about the ISO Certification [...]
ATC Certification is raising awareness of specialist Language industry ISO Standards with four FREE eLearning courses, available now! ISO 17100 Training Course. Translation Services Standard. ISO 18587 Training Course. Post-Editing Machine Translation Standard. ISO 9001 Training Course. Quality Management for LSPs. ISO 14001 Training Course. Environmental Management for LSPs. ISO 17100 & ISO 18587 Translation [...]
Dr Verónica Pérez Guarnieri is a practising conference interpreter, ISO and conference interpreting consultant and ATC Certification auditor specialising in interpreting services. She is also the long-term leader of ISO standard development projects, responsible for the inception of standards such as ISO 18841 on interpreting requirements and recommendations. In this blog, Verónica talks about her [...]
ATC Certification specialises in providing ISO Certification to the Language Services Industry, but we also recognise that these specialist standards provide benefits to other industries that rely on language services when delivering their own products and services. This blog looks at translation service ISO standard requirements in the Market Research Industry, and the synergies language [...]
LingoFocus offers translation, localization, transcription, subtitling, and desktop publishing services focusing on Nordic and Asian languages. We spoke with LingoFocus Senior Project Manager, Jane Hong, and asked her some questions about the ISO Certification project and their experience working with ATCC since receiving their ISO Certification. Why did you choose to become ISO Certified? We [...]
