Global IT services provider HCL Technologies announced that it has been selected by The Manitowoc Company, Inc., a leading multi-industry, capital goods manufacturer, as its global engineering partner for the crane operations spanning the Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific regions. Manitowoc and HCL have also set up a global engineering centre in Pune to support Manitowoc’s design centres and accelerate its new product development initiatives in emerging regions such as India, China, and Brazil.
Through this design centre, HCL offers a complete spectrum of engineering services to Manitowoc Cranes to produce blueprints for new and innovative crane models. HCL also anticipates, simulates, and provides novel solutions in design implementation in a cost effective and timely manner. The design centre also extends engineering design services support to Manitowoc’s key engineering hubs and innovation centres in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Germany, France, and Italy. The service offerings are primarily focused around product design, value engineering, structural engineering, embedded software development, and hardware engineering.
“Partnering with HCL enables us to further strengthen the core tenets of our strategy – to provide superior products and capitalise on global growth opportunities,” said Jens Ennen, Senior Vice President Global Engineering & Innovation, Manitowoc Cranes. “We are confident that our partnership with HCL will accelerate our business imperatives in the emerging markets.”
“HCL’s alignment to the key business imperatives of Manitowoc and synergies between our business objectives proved to be the key differentiators during our partner evaluation process,” said Dr. Suresh Natarajan, Director of Global Engineering Services, Manitowoc Cranes. “A combination of decades of experience in engineering, out-of-the-box thinking, and a solid foundation of talent, processes, systems, frameworks, and tools are just few of the reasons why we chose to partner with HCL for our project,” he added.
“We are pleased to partner with Manitowoc Cranes on their advent to capture the potential manufacturing opportunities in the growing economies,” said GH Rao, President, Engineering and R&D services, HCL Technologies. “This partnership stands testimony to HCL’s engineering prowess and innovation culture which drives global corporations to engage with us.”