The Hindu Business Line : Satyam sets up R&D centre for auto sector

The centre will provide research support services (all in digital forms) in the areas of alternate fuels, hybrid engines, virtual test drive solutions and emerging areas such as infotainment. Every component of a car can be digitally tested and validated, Mr Subu D. Subramanian, Director and Vice-President, Satyam, told newspersons.

The collaboration design centre will enable Satyam to work simultaneously with multiple research and development institutions across the world. The company will have tie-ups with 25 leading institutions such as the Indian Institute of Science and Vellore Institute of Technology in India, and Purdue and Carnegie Mellon in the US, Mr Subramanian said.

The Rs 6-crore centre on the Rajiv Gandhi Road (Old Mahabalipuram Road), the information technology corridor, will be inaugurated in a month. It has a capacity to house 1,000 engineers in three years and to begin with, there will be around 50 engineers, he said.

For the Hyderabad-based software company, 12 per cent of its revenue (Rs 6,485 crore for fiscal ended March 2007) came from the automotive sector. It works with eight of the top 10 global automotive companies, he added.

Mr Subramanian said Satyam would create an eco-system to make India the “R&D super hub by 2010.” It will bring industries and institutions to work on research such as hybrid engine programme (such as two and three-wheelers to benefit the Indian market) and create a consortium management process to enable Indian companies and institutions to work together for large R&D programmes.

Satyam, in a CII conclave, announced that a consortium would develop an “India Car” called HERA fxV, which will be a digital framework that can be used by automotive manufacturers to build a car. Like Microsoft .Net or Oracle platforms for software applications, HERA fxV will be a platform for the automotive industry. It will take nearly 24 months to build the framework, he said.

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