Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

outillages

English translation:

tooling

Added to glossary by Steve Melling
Nov 21, 2012 15:26
11 yrs ago
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French term

outillages

Non-PRO French to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general) Invitation to Tender
And it goes on... :) Thank you very much to the kind people who have already answered my previous questions.

"Outillages" = Tooling or Tools? But I'm not sure if either is right in my doc.



Context: The machine must be capable of changing formats i.e. it packs different sized products. So, "les changements" mentioned in the the below means changing formats. I can't see what "outillage" means here.


Les temps moyen de changement de formats et d’**outillage** doit répondre aux exigences de SOCIETE à savoir :
 Le changement de format nécessaire à un opérateur pour passer d’un flacon à un autre, y compris les réglages nécessaires à l’obtention de la qualité, devra être optimisé.
 Le fournisseur devra communiquer les différents temps de changement de format du tableau ci-dessous


 Ces changements seront réalisés par des opérateurs de lignes (non spécialistes). Les **outillages** devront donc être simples, fiables et légers.
 Un repérage des **outillages** sera obligatoire. En plus du repérage standard fournisseur et afin de répondre aux exigences SOCIETE, le fournisseur devra prévoir sur chaque **outillage** une empreinte permettant d’incruster une pastille d’identification, la réalisation et la mise en place de cette pastille étant à la charge de SOCIETE. Les dimensions des empreintes à réaliser sont :
- Ø50mm en standard
- Ø30mm sur les pièces plus petites
- Profondeur : 3.3mm
 Dans le cas où une pastille ne pourrait être insérée, il faudra prévoir une zone plate permettant le collage d’une pastille de Ø 30mm."


Many thanks.

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): outillage
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tooling

But as it is non-countable in EN, you will have to be careful where it is used as a countable in FR, and maybe go with soemthing like 'items of tooling' or 'tooling components' etc.

Really does depend quite a lot on the actual physical nature of these things...

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Note added at 14 mins (2012-11-21 15:40:19 GMT)
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Note that the kind of 'outillage' that is a 'jig', either for measuring something, or maybe for fitting something, can also sometimes be called a 'fixture'; but that is a more restrictive subset, which would for example exclude things like a plastic injection mould. So unless you can be sure, probably safest to stick with the more general term.
Peer comment(s):

agree FoundInTrans : i'm now convinced this is bang on
14 mins
Thanks, Patrick!
agree Colin Rowe : This would be my approach in the absence of precise knowledge concerning the nature of the "outillage" in question.
15 mins
Thanks, Colin! Yes, exactly: might not be exactly spot on, but at least it can't be wrong ;-)
agree mchd : oui, bien sûr ! Il s'agit de conditionnement de flacons - cf http://www.epmmagazine.com/x/guideArchiveArticle.html?gname=...
16 mins
Merci, mchd !
agree B D Finch
1 hr
neutral Thomas Miles : What would you think about 'tooling unit' when having to invent a countable version?
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Many thanks, Tony!"
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4 mins

Means

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Peer comment(s):

disagree Tony M : Really can't quite see how you can get that from the source text, where it is clearly referring to some quite specific things?
10 mins
disagree B D Finch : No apparent connection with the source term.
1 hr
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15 mins

(piece of) equipment

add "piece of" if you need to make it countable
Peer comment(s):

neutral Tony M : Too woolly; this is all 'equipment' in the most general sense of the word, but these 'outillages' are things you are going to fit onto that equipment to customize it.
4 mins
neutral B D Finch : As Tony says, not just any old equipment.
1 hr
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9 mins

fittings

Maybe?

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Note added at 16 mins (2012-11-21 15:42:17 GMT)
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The TLFi seems to provide support:

outillage
2. P.ext. Ensemble d'objets complexes considérés sous l'angle de leur utilisation. Synon. attirail.
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/outillage

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