The challenge

Black & Decker publishes approx. 100 manuals per year, and has to deliver these manuals in between 12 and 24 languages. Typically, the average manual contains between 2,400 and 5,000 words per language. The annual translation cost without reuse would amount to approx. $1 million.

The solution

Tedopres creates all Black & Decker manuals using a database of available text blocks and a standardized structure to minimize translation cost and time to market while optimizing consistency and facilitating version management.

The results

For common power tools, the amount of re-use from the database has been 90% or better. At the same time, Tedopres developed the Black & Decker authoring system to yield this solution while observing all customer requirements.

This solution resulted in cost savings of 80% on translations. Furthermore, the cycle time was decreased by 80%.