Ranal Group: A Name to Recon on in Engineering Design Services Date:   Tuesday , June 09, 2015 Putting up a manufacturing unit, especially an automotive one is no joke as millions of dollars are on stake. And if it fails, consequences are sometimes too heavy to reap. But companies who partner with Ranal Group has no point in worrying about as this conglomerate specializes in providing engineering design services to automotive clients (over 180 till date) since the days when most of the designing companies were stuck with either paper design or converting them to digital. Ranal moved beyond this and focused on nurturing a design right from its conceptual level to providing the avant-garde design documents to its customers that can be manufactured by them, thus offering end-to-end engineering design services. The company earned a stellar reputation in the engineering designing industry since its days of inception in 1992 when technology like internet, email and others were inexistence in India. The founding team of Ranal is credited with establishing one of the first robotic simulation company in India called Deneb. The success stories of Deneb spread like wildfire and caught the eyes of global 3D players. The company was acquired by Dassault Systemes in 1997. But by then, Ranal became the aficionado in bringing some of the first technological breakthroughs in India, namely: portable CMMs (1996) and Rapid prototyping (1997). The group is also crowned to bring in virtual reality labs, equipments and the software (1997), the discrete-event simulation (1994) and establish India\'s first end-to-end body shop design company Ranal Engieering (2000). Today, Ranal Group has branched out into four sister concerns including Ranal Engineering � a global outsourcing partner for engineering design services for automotive, aerospace and other industries, Ranal Inc, Ranal Software Solutions and Ranal Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd. With deep focus on engineering design and digital manufacturing services, the group has emerges as brand to recon on. With specialization in Manufacturing Engineering, Virtual Prototyping and Digital manufacturing, Ranal simulate the entire complex manufacturing shop floors before these are actually built. One can walk around the shop floor in the virtual world and simulate various conditions like mission failure or production enhancement and then come out with optimized solutions for the customers. \"We cater the automotive industry through our range of services, whether it is software or customized software or services. We are known as one of the quality supplier with lot of technical expertise to be able to design the complete automotive lines or heavy engineering or aerospace. Our objective is to introduce new technologies as and when it comes and we invest heavily on them,\" asserts Ramesh Chandra, Managing Director, Ranal India. The group caters to almost all the major OEMs of the world, either directly or through Tier suppliers from the countries like U.S., Europe including France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Africa, Brazil, Argentina and China. Innovation as the DNA Being in the forefront in bringing latest technologies to India, Ranal always faced the crunch of hiring talented individuals as techies weren\'t either aware or handy about the technology. Just as in the case of Deneb, Ranal struggled to get the first few employees who can bring this dream to reality. But as we all know, Ranal has been a core innovator and here as well their innovative mind found ways to get things done. \"We put advertisements in all leading dailies. We wanted mechanical engineers who have excellent analytical skills, preferably the PhDs to be able to do the research and translate it into software. With good response coming in, we were finally able to incept Deneb here,\" reminisces Ramesh. Hence innovation resides in the DNA of not just Ranal but each Ranalians (employees) as well. This is why, when a requirement comes in, they form the groups, debate and evolve the concepts. Infact, the company\'s contributions have surpassed the boundaries of innovation where not only its projects are revolutionary, but even its in-house platforms have seized the attention of people and have lured those to become a part of the envious clients\' portfolio. One instance is its project management system. Powered by its software development professionals, the idea developed into a revolutionary system which allowed project managers to monitor their employees, wherever they are or in whichever time zone they work and distribute the workloads amongst them. The homegrown product has made its presence felt in many companies and is highly acknowledged of its features through which one can raise the issues, track the issues and understand the progress of the project on day-to-day basis. Training at Par Being a technology company, it is essential to be working on the latest technologies. Hence, updating the employees has become more essential than ever. Ranal imbibed a unique strategy where an employee from U.S. trains his counterpart in India to hone his skill sets to become one of the best engineering design architects in the industry. Also, the highly experienced and tech-savvy management team offers a sense of ownership to the employees to make them feel responsible for what they do. With a major focus on timely delivery of work with zero error has enabled the company to have 100 percent success rate in all its project endeavors. On the flip side, Ranal also encourages team building activities through its HUM initiative, which lasts as long as 6-9 months in a year where Ranalians participate in different cultural and sports events. The employees are so heart touched with these inventiveness, openness and transparency that they feel like a family. The result? Attrition rate is the lowest within the industry and Ranal enjoys the service of people with an average of over 20 years of industry experience. Growing on the shoulders of these aficionados, Ranal is making tenacious moves into the aerospace realm and wishes to become the kingpin in the domain soon. Panel: Services: Collaborative Process Lifecycle Management Program/Project Management Engineering Services Consulting & Support Services End-to-End Engineering, Simulation & PLM Solution Providing IT Services Key Management: Ramesh Chandra, Managing Director - India Operations With over 36 years spent in the automotive and mechanical engineering related Software domain, Ramesh has been instrumental in establishing multiple technology marketing, development and service organizations in India catering to those industries. The IIT-Kanpur qualified professional Ramesh is also one of the founding members of the first CAD/CAM department in TELCO (now known as Tata Motors Ltd). Offices: U.S. & India (Pune & Bangalore)