Traceability可追溯性
Traceability is the ability to reconstruct a product’s history, components, materials, and process steps through documented records and unique identifiers that link each stage from incoming material to final distribution. In translation and localization, it appears in supply-chain documentation, labeling specifications, UDI content, recall procedures, and quality records where manufacturers must be able to follow a product accurately across languages.
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Check source meaning → confirm the preferred term → record approved variants and references.
Where this term appears
Traceability appears in logistics labels, serialization datasets, recall notices, and audit trails for medicinal products and devices. Translators need to keep identifiers such as lot numbers, serial numbers, and UDI strings unchanged, while making the surrounding descriptive text clear and consistent. Errors here can disrupt downstream reconciliation during an investigation or recall.
Translation checks
A frequent error is localizing identifiers or reformatting lot and serial numbers to match target-language conventions. That breaks traceability links and can delay a recall or investigation. Translating “traceable to” as a literal spatial phrase is another risk; it should convey documented linkage to records, standards, or materials.
From reading to a project
Link each record without changing its identifier
Illustrative traceability register · invented records
- Product reference
- DEMO-UNIT-01 · source revision C
- Input record
- DEMO-LOT-07 · receiving entry R-02
- Process link
- Receiving entry R-02 → assembly record A-06
- Chinese record label
- 来料批次 · DEMO-LOT-07
Review status: questions to confirm
Protect identifiers
Compare lot, serial, product and document IDs against the source. Keep the identifier string unchanged where it functions as a lookup key.
Keep linked records together
Show which source record connects each material or process step. Preserve the supplied references and sequence instead of inferring a missing link.
Check the Chinese labels in context
Use the surrounding record fields to confirm whether the entry names a material, process step or status. Route ambiguous source wording to the named owner.
Related published experience
Yinfeng Casting (Wuhu)Spanish → Chinese
Production and quality-system documentation, in volume.
Adjacent manufacturing experience: Spanish-to-Chinese production and quality-system documentation. The public case does not establish a medical traceability project, traceability audit or a specific traceability-record assignment.
Send a representative record, its linked references, actual language direction and required deliverables in Chinese.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check intended use, warnings, document versions and approved terminology with the project team. Translation supports documentation; it does not establish product approval or regulatory acceptance.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
Working on life science documentation?
Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
Prepare a Chinese traceability-file inquiry →Life Science solutions →File handling →A glossary entry is not an official standard or evidence of regulatory acceptance. Confirm current requirements for your project separately.