jkrom
Member
We are currently building a machine that will be used in one of our plants in China and will need to display in both English and Chinese.
We have done plenty of equipment for Mexico in the past, and have simply had someone from the plant translate all of the pertinent English verbiage to Spanish, and we set up to toggle between the two languages. I am deeply concerned, however, about accomplishing this with Chinese, since it uses an entirely different character set and, from what I understand, text is written top to bottom - instead of left to right.
We are using a SLC 5/05 and an Ethernet PanelView 600, which tells the operator what to do and has various screens for plant personnel to set up the machine. We have built several of these exact same machines in the past, and changing to different hardware is not an option.
I have found AB KnowledgeBase article #G19620, which details how to include the Chinese font into PanelBuilder, and have already ordered the required ATA memory card. I think that I would prefer, however, to farm out the whole language conversion process to someone else. Are there companies that do this sort of thing? Have any of you had to do something similar? How complicated is it?
Thanks in advance.
We have done plenty of equipment for Mexico in the past, and have simply had someone from the plant translate all of the pertinent English verbiage to Spanish, and we set up to toggle between the two languages. I am deeply concerned, however, about accomplishing this with Chinese, since it uses an entirely different character set and, from what I understand, text is written top to bottom - instead of left to right.
We are using a SLC 5/05 and an Ethernet PanelView 600, which tells the operator what to do and has various screens for plant personnel to set up the machine. We have built several of these exact same machines in the past, and changing to different hardware is not an option.
I have found AB KnowledgeBase article #G19620, which details how to include the Chinese font into PanelBuilder, and have already ordered the required ATA memory card. I think that I would prefer, however, to farm out the whole language conversion process to someone else. Are there companies that do this sort of thing? Have any of you had to do something similar? How complicated is it?
Thanks in advance.