For over ten years, Ford Vehicle Operations has utilized an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to assist in the creation
and maintenance of process build instructions for our vehicle assembly plants. This system, known as the Direct Labor Management
System, utilizes a restricted subset of English called Standard Language as a tool for the writing of process build instructions
for the North American plants. The expansion of DLMS beyond North America as part of the Global Study Process Allocation System
(GSPAS) required us to develop a method to translate these build instructions from English to other languages. This Machine
Translation process, developed in conjunction with SYSTRAN, has allowed us to develop a system to automatically translate
vehicle assembly build instructions for our plants in Europe and South America.