Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
maille du flux global
English translation:
overall (network) flow
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Karen Tucker (X)
Mar 1, 2007 12:43
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French term
maille du flux global
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Engineering: Industrial
manufacturing
They're talking about streamlining operations and reducing lead times in a production plant. I don't know what they mean by "maille." I found "subnet" in a previous ProZ question and in Le Grand Dictionnaire but I'm not sure that's the right translation here. Any thoughts? Thanks, Karen
Le projet optimisation des flux d’informations et des flux produits, démarré fin 2005 visait à transmettre au plus vite l’information dans les usines. La démarche a permis de tendre les flux et simplifier les opérations, en optimisant la gestion de l’outil industriel et les commandes, notamment en supprimant le flux « rush order » qui perturbait les planifications.
**La maille du flux global** a déjà été réduit à une semaine au lieu de deux (soit un gain de trois semaines en temps de cycle).
Le projet optimisation des flux d’informations et des flux produits, démarré fin 2005 visait à transmettre au plus vite l’information dans les usines. La démarche a permis de tendre les flux et simplifier les opérations, en optimisant la gestion de l’outil industriel et les commandes, notamment en supprimant le flux « rush order » qui perturbait les planifications.
**La maille du flux global** a déjà été réduit à une semaine au lieu de deux (soit un gain de trois semaines en temps de cycle).
Proposed translations
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| 2 | overall network flow |
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| 3 | mesh? |
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overall network flow
Sounds like jargon, and in-house jargon at that, so, well, translate jargon with jargon.
Global: meaning from start to finish?
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-03-01 15:30:28 GMT)
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Could it be a typo for taille???
Global: meaning from start to finish?
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-03-01 15:30:28 GMT)
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Could it be a typo for taille???
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Comment: "I ended up going with "overall flow" as I don't think "maille" adds anything to the meaning. Thanks very much for your help in trying to decipher this! Karen"
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mesh?
It looks to me as if they are talking about 'reducing the mesh' through which the 'flow' passes, figuratively speaking of course.
Maille often means mesh in a concrete sense too.
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Note added at 25 mins (2007-03-01 13:08:37 GMT)
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This website talks about a 'meshed workflow' - which would seem to fit your context (?)
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:w_0eh8F4hFQJ:www.wtmlondo...
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Note added at 29 mins (2007-03-01 13:12:12 GMT)
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so you could say something like: the 'mesh' of the overall workflow has already been reduced from 2 weeks to 1 week...I think I would be inclined to keep 'mesh' in inverted commas though... in the absence of a better expression...
Maille often means mesh in a concrete sense too.
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Note added at 25 mins (2007-03-01 13:08:37 GMT)
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This website talks about a 'meshed workflow' - which would seem to fit your context (?)
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:w_0eh8F4hFQJ:www.wtmlondo...
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Note added at 29 mins (2007-03-01 13:12:12 GMT)
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so you could say something like: the 'mesh' of the overall workflow has already been reduced from 2 weeks to 1 week...I think I would be inclined to keep 'mesh' in inverted commas though... in the absence of a better expression...
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