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TCS sets up engg center to help SMEs
By agencies
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Monday, 06 March 2006, 20:30 IST
COIMBATORE: The information technology arm of Tata Group, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has opened its first engineering center of excellence in Coimbatore. This consulting-led initiative is expected to enable Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to innovate and access global markets.
Announcing this, the TCS, Vice-President and Head - Engineering and Industrial Services, Ravi Gopinath said that a study undertaken by the company had indicated that the SMEs in and around this region had been doing well on the export front, but the process was not structured. It depended on the initiatives of the individual units.
The company, therefore, decided to step in to connect companies from low-cost countries to their global innovation networks through a first-ever joint-solution of IT, software and consulting services with the launch of Asian Sourcing Network (ASN).
ASN combines the extensive supplier research assessment and negotiation capabilities of A.T Kearney Procurement Solutions with the collaboration, content exchange and sourcing enablement of UGS Technologies and TCS's consulting services to offer low-cost sourcing as a packaged solution, Joe Raudabaugh, President, A.T Kearney, said.
Gopinath said that TCS has made a beginning by starting to work with 180 SMEs. We are in the process of classifying their capabilities. We have created an elaborate database that reveals their strengths and weakness. We are hoping to come up with some recommendations over the next six months. In order to upgrade their facility or expanding their network significantly. We have started working with individual units."
After inaugurating the facility, S Ramadorai, CEO and Managing Director, TCS said, The company was keen to locate the center in a tier-II city and Coimbatore happened to be the ideal destination because of its manufacturing strength. The opportunity for growth is phenomenal.
The center of excellence would comprise facilities such as high-end engineering workstations for design and analysis; secure storage facilities and a team of engineering solution specialists.