Geometric wins IT services contract from Volvo cars

IT services firm Geometric has signed an application maintenance contract with Volvo Cars, covering major applications from computer aided design (CAD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) landscape.
Financial details of the deal were not revealed.
"Geometric has been partnering with Volvo Cars for their global engineering and manufacturing needs since 2010, and today extended its Application Maintenance Services (AMS) engagement to include additional CAD and PLM applications for new product development and manufacturing engineering," the firm said in a statement today.
The Mumbai-based company will deploy its AMS framework, which is designed to enable, ensure, enhance and evolve the targeted PLM, engineering IT and manufacturing IT applications to deliver value to Volvo.

Geometric will also leverage its extensive understanding of Volvo's product development IT landscape combined with its excellent Independent Software Vendor (ISV) relationships and experience in PLM, to support Volvo's new product development programs.
In addition to application maintenance, Geometric works with Volvo across multiple projects related to the design and development of complex and large scale CAD and PLM strategic initiatives, and provides offshore support through a dedicated delivery centre in Chennai.