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Electrical engineering translation, in your terms.

Power, lighting and communications, with every panel schedule, diagram and specification section using the same terms.

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Where electrical packages drift

Electrical sets are made of short labels: panel schedules, single-line diagrams, riser diagrams, device tags. Each label is a few words, so a translator without context guesses, and a panelboard becomes three different things across the sheets. Your electrical engineers then correct terms line by line in schedules they had already checked.

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One term base, every document

Short labels get their context from the term base: every panel, device and cable term comes from Technitrad’s NMS term base, after your firm’s approved terms, so a three-word label is translated the same way on every sheet. Technitrad’s NMS term base holds over 15,000 terms; the term base built from your documents is yours, whether you stay with us or not. A term your engineers approved once should never need correcting again.

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What we translate

Single-line and riser diagrams, panel schedules, lighting and power plans, electrical specifications, short-circuit and coordination reports, and commissioning and maintenance documents.

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NMS sections it touches

  • Panelboards breaker type
  • Low voltage switchgear
  • Cable trays for electrical systems
  • Lighting, power, and branch wiring
  • Wiring devices
  • Emergency lighting

Standard NMS text in these sections is matched against our NMS translation memory, aligned from the official English and French NMS, which lowers the cost and shortens the turnaround. Your edits are translated in the same terms. See every division and section title in both languages.

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How it works

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Send your past translations

and approved terms. We build your term base from them.

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Choose per project

an AI draft your team reviews in NEOLO for routine documents, or review by our specialists when the stakes are high (two ways to work).

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Receive the package in your formats, ready to issue

On either route, AutoCAD DWG drawings come back with the translation written in place, so no one retypes a callout.

Receive the package in your formats, ready to issue.
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Proof

Six of the world’s ten largest engineering firms are Technitrad clients. See how we translate NMS specifications and AutoCAD drawings.

We’ve completed our review of the translated documents and are pleased to say we have no comments, everything looks good on our end.

Brittany, Defence Construction Canada

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Start

Your electrician on site reads panneau de distribution on the schedule, the single-line diagram and the specification, and never wonders whether they are three different panels. Your engineers stop correcting the same terms twice, and stop being the firm’s French proofreaders. If your own engineers translate the drawings today because an agency would send back tables to retype, start with the AI draft: your team reviews it in NEOLO, and the DWG comes back with the translation written in place. Send the electrical set for a quote, answered within one business day, or start with a free, confidential terminology check of a recent deliverable or drawing.

Terms on this page, English and French

Approved once. Used on every sheet, spec and report after.

  1. 01panelboardpanneau de distribution
  2. 02switchgearappareillage de commutation
  3. 03cable traychemin de câbles
  4. 04racewaycanalisation
  5. 05junction boxboîte de jonction
  6. 06pull boxboîte de tirage
  7. 07feederartère d'alimentation
  8. 08groundingmise à la terre
  9. 09motor control centrecentre de commande de moteurs
  10. 10emergency lightingéclairage de sécurité
  11. 11armoured cablecâble armé
  12. 12plug-in buswaybarre blindée embrochable
  13. 13wiring diagramschéma de câblage
  14. 14main breakerdisjoncteur principal
FAQ

Questions

What is a panelboard in French?

In the NMS French, a panelboard is a panneau de distribution, and a breaker-type panelboard a panneau de distribution à disjoncteurs.

Do you translate single-line diagrams?

Yes, in the DWG, with every label and note in the terms of the electrical specification.

How do you say electrical engineering in French?

Electrical engineering is génie électrique, and an electrical engineer is an ingénieur électricien.

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