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German: Entwicklungsfertigung

English translation: experimental manufacture



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German term or phrase:Entwicklungsfertigung
English translation:experimental manufacture
Entered by:Trudy Peters
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Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space
German term or phrase: Entwicklungsfertigung
What, pray tell, is Entwicklungsfertigung?

I hope someone has a brainstorm...

XX, Teamsprecher Entwicklungsfertigung, kennt die Arbeit zur Nachtstunde. Er fertigt mit seinen Teamkollegen neben Neuentwicklungen auch Einzelstücke und Ersatzteile...

None of this gives me a clue of what to call it.
Trudy Peters
United States
Clarification request(s) and response
Trudy Peters: 12:51am Sep 20, 2005: Well, here's the answer, straight from the horse's mouth: Entwicklungsfertigung = experimental manufacture (die Prototypenfertigung ist noch mal was anderes)

jccantrell: 1:36am Sep 20, 2005: Thanks for the response. Make sure it gets into the glossaries. So much gets lost when the response is dropped on the floor. -

prototype manufacturing {department}
Explanation:
How I would phrase it in the USA.
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jccantrell
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Great! Thanks JC et al. Will let you know what customer has to say :-)
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3prototype manufacturing {department}
jccantrell
3product production/manufacturing
Brie Vernier
3developments manufacture
Frosty


  

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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
developments manufacture

Explanation:
Might work - these would be the gizmos (and there could be several of them, each slightly different to the previous one) that are made until someone decides that they have finally got themselves a prototype, at which point thoughts turn towards producing the thing en masse.

Frosty
Germany
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
prototype manufacturing {department}

Explanation:
How I would phrase it in the USA.


    Reference: http://www.waoptics.com/prototype.html
jccantrell
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
Note from asker to answerer
Great! Thanks JC et al. Will let you know what customer has to say :-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Siegfried Armbruster
5 hrs

agree Marcus Malabad: development = prototype
8 hrs

agree Daniel Bird: also simply "prototyping dept" or more picturesquely, 'Skunk Works'...
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
product production/manufacturing

Explanation:
I'd say. Rather a guess, but if you consider "Neuentwicklungen" in the sense of the result of the development process ...

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Note added at 2 days 3 hrs 39 mins (2005-09-20 01:26:16 GMT) Post-grading
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Well, I really don't know why we didn't think of that! Sheesh!!

Brie Vernier
Germany
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