The Hindu Business Line : Satyam to beef up auto, aviation services

Coimbatore, March 17 While gearing up to commence operations at its campus in Chennai by end September, Satyam Computer Services, according to its Director and Senior Vice-President (Manufacturing and Automotive Business Group), Mr Subu D Subramanian, is planning to expand into Coimbatore to provide technology service support to the manufacturing sector here.

‘In automotive IT services, our revenue during the current years has been close to 12 per cent and the growth in the aerospace service almost doubled. We are looking to provide product engineering services and embedded solutions for the automotive and aviation industry,’ he told Business Line.

Satyam has tied up with IIT-Madras for setting up an automotive Centre of Excellence. Mr Subramanian hinted at the possibility of initiating something similar here.

The company is gung-ho about getting into digital manufacturing services. “This is basically to simulate the manufacturing process in the design stage itself. At present, companies prepare the design before commencing the process of manufacture. This is both time-consuming and costly. We are working towards improving speed, cutting cost and reduction in cycle time,” he explained.

“On the avionics side, when we work with aircraft OEMs, we perceive the urgent need for upgrading the avionic systems. The other area where there is a huge global shortage (in the aerospace industry) is the structure. We are looking to partner with universities to develop the requisite skill in this space,” Mr Subramanian said.

Global talent

To bridge this shortage in basic technical skills, Satyam picks global talent. “Thanks to the recession in the US, we are able to recruit domain specialists,” Mr Subramanian said and added that the global director of the project team was from the US.

Mr Subramanian also said that there were a number of domain specialists who were prepared to come back and work here, as they see India as a high growth market.

To a query on investment, he said the company invested about $2 million over the past year in establishing the automotive centre within its Hyderabad-campus in an area of 10,000 sq.ft.

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