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By Debashish Sinha, Prident, BNI Service Strategies and Dr. Pradeep K Mukherji, Strategy and Sourcing Advisor


The Future of Engineering Services. Outsourcing Driven by Access to Local Market

By Kevin Dehoff, Vice President and Vikas Sehgal, Principal and Executive Director, Booz Allen Hamilton

By Debashish Sinha and Rita Terdiman, Co-founder, Consient Partners

Customers can try to partner with conglomerates, especially in India, to tap into global expertise

By Avinash Vashistha, Chairman and CEO, Tholons

Engineering-services talent is highly specialized yet widely distributed across the globe. Here is a guide to short-listing the key destinations
 
 
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When an Indian company builds the world's cheapest car and provides the first instance of end-to-end vehicle development in Asia, more than isolated corporate progress, it represents the coming of age of India's automotive engineering design industry. And so the trend: from engineering services outsourcing to actual engineering outsourcing; from segmented insourcing-outsourcing to full capability outsourcing. (Source: Business Standard)
 
Customers can try to partner with conglomerates, especially in India, to tap into global expertise.
 
Captives versus service companies, deal sizes, sales cycles, talent crunch and pull from IT sector, after-markets and much more. Global Engineering Product Development through India is not only a billion dollar market opportunity as projected by Booz & Hamilton, but also a subject of pithy debate as witnessed at the Nasscom Leadership Forum. (Source: CIOL.com)
 
Third-party R&D/engineering services providers are expanding their offerings to meet growing demand from chip companies large and small. (Source: EETimes.com)
 
Working across multiple domains, India’s name has now become synonymous with offshored product development. (Source: Economy & Business)
 
     
 
 
The intense competitive pressures in the automobile industry, especially in the U.S. and Europe, have created a set of enabling factors, or drivers that are forcing original equipments manufacturers and ancillaries to explore outsourcing and offshoring options. Source: SOURCINGmag.com
 
As outsourcing moves up several notches from writing code and answering calls, companies such as Boeing, Rolls Royce, Smiths Aerospace and General Motors are betting on getting their engineering components designed abroad
 
Indian IT association for software and services, Nasscom, now shifts its attention to engineering services? An area where the country has to compete hard with the likes of China and Russia
 
The aerospace market has taken a major upturn and is expected to be strong for several years to come, and more than ever before, prime aerospace contractors are outsourcing almost all of their regular machining and are actively looking for qualified shops to do that work (Source: American Machinist)
 
The estimated demand for engineering process outsourcing to India has grown at 30 to 35 percent since 2004 to 2006, said the study released by Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, adding the momentum would be sustained in the ensuing years (Source: Gulf Times)
 
 
 
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“There is a compelling value in outsourcing engineering.”

Ajit Prabhu, CEO, QuEST.

 
 
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“We selected QuEST as our partner of choice to provide engineering services, as they are a purely engineering focused solutions provider with their demonstrated capabilities in engineering technologies and for their ability to evolve with time and meet our growing requirements."
 
 
   
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QuEST is a leading provider of outsourced engineering services and manufacturing. We provide support across the entire product life cycle from design and modeling through analysis, prototyping, automation, data documentation, manufacturing support, vendor management, and in-house precision machining. Through our Global Product Development framework leveraging our local presence and global reach, we enable companies in the aerospace, civil structures, industrial products, oil & gas, power generation, and transportation markets to cut product development costs, shorten lead times, extend capacity, and maximize engineering resources. QuEST employs over 1200 people and has delivery centers in India, USA, and Italy, and a footprint in UK, Germany, China and Japan. For more information, visit www.quest-global.com
 

 
   
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The scope for outsourcing within the field of engineering is vast and holds limitless possibilities for growth. It offers quality and precision at a fraction of the cost and is waiting to be exploited. And going by the success of other outsourcing experiments, the only way to go seems to be upwards.

Whether you are looking at Design Automation or Drafting and 3D Modeling; whether you are looking at Engineering Analysis or Instrumentation & Control; whether you are looking at Re-engineering, Plane Design or Precision Engineering, you will find many of your questions answered right here.

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