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Most drawings in a manual are the writer’s call. A few are not. Those few have a fixed shape, and getting them wrong costs the document its credibility. This article covers where illustration and safety pictogram part ways, and which rules apply once you cross that line. 1. Instructional illustration vs. safety warning image User […]

Most translation companies use off-the-shelf AI tools. Hansem Global built its own, extending what the industry-standard tools can do rather than replacing them. Today, professional translation runs on CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools. Hansem Global, a localization company that produces and adapts industrial and technical documentation in more than 50 languages, works inside these platforms, and […]

Since 2012, Hansem Global has run three secure workrooms, one for each client organization, for 14 years, with zero data breaches. What produced that record isn’t the physical infrastructure you can buy with capital, but the operational know-how and security culture that only time builds. You can buy the space; you can’t buy a 14-year […]

The world is racing from the digital age into the age of AI. In content creation, generative AI, cloud servers, and online collaboration have quietly become the default setting. And yet, here I am, sketching on paper with a mechanical pencil. A place no one can simply walk into. A place where even the camera […]

In July 2026, Vietnam’s drug administration ordered ten imported cosmetics products pulled from distribution, recalled, and destroyed. The importer was fined and barred from filing any new product registrations for six months. The products were Korean, the market was Vietnam, and the category was beauty. For a manufacturer of medical devices, industrial equipment, or electronics […]

Technical documentation defines the standard people are supposed to follow. Training content is designed to turn that standard into action. Applying the learning-design principles we observed at ATD26, manufacturers can take the most critical topics already sitting in their technical documentation and extend them into behavior-focused microlearning. This is the intersection Hansem Global is exploring: […]

This series set out to remind those responsible for manufacturers’ manuals of one thing: the manual is the certification record a regulator reviews first, not material the user never reads. In medical devices the manual is reviewed directly under FDA 510(k). Industrial machinery treats it as a certification audit item, and in robotics it is […]

A typical multilingual localization project leans on cloud-based translation memory (TM), search engines, and external collaboration tools. Translators, PMs, DTP specialists, and QA reviewers share files in real time and keep the work moving. Projects in Hansem Global’s secure workroom work a little differently. The work happens inside an environment where outside network access is […]