Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
spårbarhet
English translation:
trackability
Added to glossary by
Bengt Evertsson
Feb 24, 2005 15:00
19 yrs ago
Swedish term
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Native in: Swedish 
Works in: French to Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmal) to English, English to Swedish, and 2 more.
spårbarhet
Swedish to English
Bus/Financial
Transport / Transportation / Shipping
From the presentation of the forwarding company (speditionsföretag)
Vi använder IBS för att avisera, spåra, fakturera, bevaka, kontrollera våra kunders sändningar.
Systemet har full spårbarhet på kund och sändningsnivå.
TRACEABILITY?
ADVISE?
Vi använder IBS för att avisera, spåra, fakturera, bevaka, kontrollera våra kunders sändningar.
Systemet har full spårbarhet på kund och sändningsnivå.
TRACEABILITY?
ADVISE?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | trackability |
Peter Linton (X)
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| 5 +2 | traceability |
Paoletrix
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| 4 +1 | traceability |
Marianne (X)
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| 3 | traceability |
Frederiqo
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Proposed translations
+3
32 mins
Swedish term (edited):
sp�rbarhet
Selected
trackability
I think in this transport context. "trackability" is more likely. See ref for an example. A very strong reason for that is that Fedex (and many other transport oompanies) use the word "track", not "trace" (see 2nd ref).
I agree entirely that in a software context, "traceability" is the right word.
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Note added at 37 mins (2005-02-24 15:38:14 GMT)
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To expand that a bit: I think the software engineers developing the system would talk about tracing, and putting in \"software traces\" in order to see what the program is doing (or where it is going wrong).
But the purpose of the IBS program is to track the progress of goods at customer and dispatch level, and hence \"track\" is the right word here - you track goods in transit, you do not trace them.
I agree entirely that in a software context, "traceability" is the right word.
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Note added at 37 mins (2005-02-24 15:38:14 GMT)
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To expand that a bit: I think the software engineers developing the system would talk about tracing, and putting in \"software traces\" in order to see what the program is doing (or where it is going wrong).
But the purpose of the IBS program is to track the progress of goods at customer and dispatch level, and hence \"track\" is the right word here - you track goods in transit, you do not trace them.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+1
17 mins
traceability
is indeed the wright word.
+2
12 mins
Swedish term (edited):
sp�rbarhet
traceability
I work with this often in software development process improvement.
"Traceability" is what we use.
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Note added at 5 hrs 26 mins (2005-02-24 20:27:01 GMT)
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I agree on one level, Peter (though as a package sender I would speak of \"tracing\" my package and not \"tracking\" it. I would trace to find something that hadn\'t arrived on time, and I would track to see, for example, how long it took) - but we\'re talking about the system\'s capabilities.
"Traceability" is what we use.
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Note added at 5 hrs 26 mins (2005-02-24 20:27:01 GMT)
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I agree on one level, Peter (though as a package sender I would speak of \"tracing\" my package and not \"tracking\" it. I would trace to find something that hadn\'t arrived on time, and I would track to see, for example, how long it took) - but we\'re talking about the system\'s capabilities.
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