Mar 27, 2016 16:53
8 yrs ago
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French term

étuvage

French to English Tech/Engineering Computers: Hardware Computer cards
The term appear in a very short document consisting of the format of a table whose title is "IMP Tableau suivi d’étuvage des cartes CMS"

The table is empty except for the headings of the various columns: (reference, date, starting time finish time, and temperature).

I found "baking," but I am not confident.

All suggestions are welcome.

Proposed translations

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processing in an environmental chamber

Please see glossary entries for 'étuve', in particular my own earlier question.

This is either part of the test / quality assurance procedure — the cards' performance will be tested before and after being heated up in a telmperature-controlled chamber.

Or else it is a kind of 'curing' process as part of the production chain, presumably designed to reveal heat-sensitive faults that might otherwise manifest later in service.
Peer comment(s):

neutral philgoddard : Maybe, but I've provide a reference and you haven't. You can't just tell us to look it up in the glossary.//"Answerer needs to learn to look things up for themselves" sounds patronizing.
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Why not, Phil? I'm sure Asker is more than capable of looking things up for themselves; the original discussion should prove fruitful, informative, and possibly give other avenues for research. Refs. are only worth anything if they are RELEVANT.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you Tony. I used a difefrent term, but your answer helped a lot"
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sterilization

CMS is surface-mounted components, so this is about printed circuit boards. I don't know what the rest of the sentence means, or what IMP stands for, but this appears to be the meaning of "étuvage".
Note from asker:
Thank you Phil. Your answer was actually very useful. It gave me some clues.
Peer comment(s):

disagree Tony M : Not in this context, phil! That is only ONE of its many meanings, and not relevant in the context as given.
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