Case Study: Wärtsilä Finland achieves up to 40% more time to analyze complex bid requirements with RWS

Wärtsilä uses the power of machine translation to free vital extra time for business-critical analysis

Wärtsilä, a global manufacturer serving the marine and energy markets, must analyze hundreds of detailed customer documents—often up to 150 files totaling thousands of pages—within an eight-week bid window. Because English is the company’s operating language, traditional translation of non-English requirement documents could take up to two weeks, consuming as much as a third of the available time and putting the quality of bid responses at risk.

Wärtsilä implemented RWS’s Language Weaver, a secure machine-translation solution with batch PDF support and format preservation, requiring little customization and minimal user training. Initial translation time fell from about two weeks to one–two days, freeing up to 40% more time for critical analysis, scaling to millions of characters processed, and improving bid competitiveness—while final customer-facing proposals remain human-reviewed for quality.

Wärtsilä Finland

Ashish Phadke

General Manager, Solutions Sales Support