This is quite an impressive word, isn’t it: Qualitätsmanagementverfahrensanweisung
How would you translate it into English? Here is my proposal:
quality management process instruction
What do you think?
Thanks,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Amazing that Germans developed a compact car like the Bug, isn’t it? :shock:
Whorf, eat your hat. 
Hi Torsten
Yep. Magnificently long words is one of the things that intrigued Mark Twain so much about German. :lol:
I’m not sure I would even bother to include the “verfahren” part in the translation. How about this:
Quality Management Guidelines
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Hi Amy,
Thanks a lot for your suggestion. The problem is that there are several separate quality management instructions each of which addresses a specific issue. Let’s say, there are 15 individual instructions that make up the Quality Management Guideline.[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Hi Torsten
The reason I wrote “Guidelines” (i.e. plural) is that that can conceivably be applied to a list of required steps in a procedure/process.
It’s often tough to come up with the “perfect” translation without all of the context, but here is another suggestion:
What about a more substantial deviation from the original German word:
TQM is also a well-known concept, so you might consider this:
Hi Amy,
Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas which are great. It’s just that in this particular case we are talking about a number of documents that all describe one individual part of the entire Total Quality Management Process and that’s what a Qualitätsmanagementverfahrensanweisung is meant to be. Many Qualitätsmanagementverfahrensanweisungs describe and define the entire quality management process.[YSaerTTEW443543]
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