| The company is also looking at setting up three more such centres in Germany, Japan and in India (Chennai) over the next year or so and has chalked out a budget of $2 million, which will go into creating infrastructure, equipment and others for these four centres. Besides, it is also expected to spend about $5-7 million year-on-year as an ongoing investment for these centres, initially. |
| "With these four integrated facilities, we will be closer to where the action is," Subu D Subramanian, director & senior vice-president (manufacturing and automotive businesses), said to reporters from Detroit through a video conference. |
| Built over 6000 sq ft area in central Detroit, a $600-billion business opportunity hub, ACE will initially house about 50 consultants and offer not just offshoring solutions but also other portfolio of services like system integration, design and development, consulting services by leveraging its onsite-offshore delivery model. |
| The company's endeavour is to work as business partner at the global level, understand the opportunities and leverage the technology to provide solutions to enhance the business value of the stakeholders, he added. |
| Kenneth Taormina, senior vice-president (manufacturing), Satyam, said that ACE would hire 5-6 senior level vice-presidents with experience in automotive industry, discrete manufacturing, industrial equipment, and the process industry. |
| This team will be supported by another team, which will comprise solution architects with experience in industry in architecting, developing and consulting services. |
| Subramanian said the centre would also participate in leading research and development initiatives. |
| It would also forge tie-ups with industry technology providers, leading institutes like MIT in the US and CSIR in India for basic knowledge and trend to leverage the emerging innovation concepts. |
| Automotive practice currently accounts for 12 per cent of Satyam's revenue. The company sees this share going up in the near future due to centre for excellence initiative and emerging opportunities from European and Japanese companies. |
| With over 2,500 professionals in the automotive vertical, Satyam provides IT solutions to 7 top global automotive OEMs and 4 of global top 10 automotive suppliers |
| Satyam is also launching digital manufacturing services which are aimed at offering tools and solutions that would help automotive manufacturers faster time to market products and reduce complexities and cost. |
| Digital manufacturing tools are a set of software applications that simulate the engineering operations so that designs, manufacturing operations and their associated planning can be checked and corrected virtually before any metal goes under the tools. |
| Digital manufacturing is expected to be the next wave in IT solutions for manufacturing with the industry size projected to be in multibillion dollar by 2009. |
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