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Prozessfreigabe

English translation: process approval, process sign-off


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17:34 Nov 24, 2007
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Manufacturing / serial production of plastics
German term or phrase: Prozessfreigabe
I would be grateful if someone could give me the exact term.
This is still from the CV of a person who has been working in an plastic injection moulding plant and describes the various tasks he was entrusted with: one of them is listed as "Prozessfreigabe" Would process release work here or is there a better term?
I couldn't find the exact term in the Kudoz glossary or other sources.
I have an idea what it means but I am looking for the correct term
Thanks in advance
Ingeborg Gowans
Canada
Local time: 03:39
English translation:process approval, process sign-off
Explanation:
This is purely a guess, but it seems more logical that "processes" would be "approved" rather than "released".

As I said in my note to Petra, googling "process release" produces very few results for something actually called a "process release" (try it and look carefully at the punctuation in the results), whereas "process approval" seems to be an actual collocation.

There is also something called a PSO (Process Sign-Off), which is used in quality control and which may be what you're looking for. Here's a definition:

"Process Sign Off
Review of supplier's manufactoring process at the quoted peak daily rate. The PSO (Audit) will is performed at the supplier's manufacturing plant." (From http://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/PSO-724.htm)

Perhaps you could check with your client whether it is something like this?



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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2007-11-25 22:19:57 GMT)
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Like I said, it really is a guess, and as such should certainly be researched further - I just wanted to point out that I haven't been able to find a reliable reference for "process release" and that the reference Petra provided for it didn't seem to check out.
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Hilary Davies Shelby
Local time: 01:39
Grading comment
in the end I went with your suggestion, many thanks for your trouble
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4process release
Petra Williams
1process approval, process sign-off
Hilary Davies Shelby


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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
process release


Explanation:
This is even a job title: process release engineer
Hope this helps


    Reference: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=process+release+engineer&l1=...
Petra Williams
United States
Local time: 00:39
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
Notes to answerer
Asker: thanks for your quick answer, sometimes I make things too complicated


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nicholas Krivenko: Exactly. This is similar to batch release but refers to a process.
7 mins
agree  EdithK
1 hr
agree  Michael Harris
4 hrs
neutral  Hilary Davies Shelby: I am not sure about this - the link you mentioned seems to go to a "release engineer" (software releases) and googling the phrase "process release" produces very few hits for it as a collocation - they all seem to include punctuation which changes meaning
6 hrs
agree  Carola Stone: To put Hilary's mind a little at rest: process release is in a manufacturing context perfectly correct. Have spend many years in plastic injection moulding plant and have regularly faced the issue of process release.
1 day25 mins
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
process approval, process sign-off


Explanation:
This is purely a guess, but it seems more logical that "processes" would be "approved" rather than "released".

As I said in my note to Petra, googling "process release" produces very few results for something actually called a "process release" (try it and look carefully at the punctuation in the results), whereas "process approval" seems to be an actual collocation.

There is also something called a PSO (Process Sign-Off), which is used in quality control and which may be what you're looking for. Here's a definition:

"Process Sign Off
Review of supplier's manufactoring process at the quoted peak daily rate. The PSO (Audit) will is performed at the supplier's manufacturing plant." (From http://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/PSO-724.htm)

Perhaps you could check with your client whether it is something like this?



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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2007-11-25 22:19:57 GMT)
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Like I said, it really is a guess, and as such should certainly be researched further - I just wanted to point out that I haven't been able to find a reliable reference for "process release" and that the reference Petra provided for it didn't seem to check out.

Hilary Davies Shelby
Local time: 01:39
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
in the end I went with your suggestion, many thanks for your trouble
Notes to answerer
Asker: thank you for taking the time to "dig a little deeper" I am relying on aomeone's expertise here. You have agood point and I ammore inlcined now to go with your suggestion;Will grade later

Asker: thanks for the link,too

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Changes made by editors
Nov 26, 2007 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Field (write-in)serial production of plastic => serial production of plastics
Nov 26, 2007 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Field (specific)Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) => Manufacturing


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