Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

chantier de progrès

English translation:

improvement project

Added to glossary by David Swain
Dec 15, 2014 15:14
9 yrs ago
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French term

chantier de progrès

French to English Tech/Engineering Manufacturing Job roles
The following forms part of the list of duties of a maintenance technician for the machinery in some sort of production line.

 Intervention de maintenance niveau 1 et 2
 Diagnostique les pannes sur machine de production de complexité 1 ou 2

 Réalise une intervention de maintenance avec une assistance sur machine de production de complexité 1 ou supérieure
 Réalise une maintenance préventive à l’aide de la procédure
 Participe à un chantier de progrès
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 improvement project
4 +2 progress meeting/workshop

Discussion

polyglot45 Dec 15, 2014:
a chantier is often a fancy word for a project
David Swain (asker) Dec 15, 2014:
Thanks for the suggestion, Phil. I think it is more likely to be a synonym of "atelier" than to mean a site visit, although it's not 100% clear from the text.
philgoddard Dec 15, 2014:
It's obviously some kind of progress meeting. I wonder if chantier means a site visit, or if it's another word for "atelier".

Proposed translations

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improvement project

quite simply. "chantier" is a popular buzzword meaning "anything you work on for some time" = project.
Note from asker:
That's a great suggestion EvaVer, thanks.
Peer comment(s):

agree mchd
14 mins
neutral philgoddard : I don't think this is the meaning. It's some kind of meeting - try Googling it.
17 mins
agree Jocelyne Cuenin : je penche aussi pour improvement program, éventuellement du type Lean-Six Sigma
20 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This definitely fitted best with the context"
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progress meeting/workshop

I'm not sure why they've chosen "chantier" rather than, say, "réunion" or "atelier", but it's clearly a meeting of some kind.

This is from a training programme that teaches people how to lead them:

"Acquérir le savoir-faire d’animation de chantier permettant de garantir les résultats avec une bonne appropriation du groupe
- Pour le participant
Apprendre à animer un chantier de progrès (Lean)
Éviter les pièges de l’animation
Vaincre la résistance au changement et fédérer le groupe chantier autour de lui
– Pour l’entreprise
Impliquer les acteurs dans le déploiement d’une démarche d’amélioration
Obtenir le meilleur de ses collaborateurs
Minimiser les risques d’échec et maximiser l’appropriation par les groupes chantier

Peer comment(s):

agree Chakib Roula
14 mins
agree kashew
1 hr
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