Product Engineering

A Green Planet By Design

Companies can contain their environmental impact through better product, process and systems engineering. Valmeeka Nathan, Vice President and Head, Product Lifecycle and Engineering... Solutions, Infosys Technologies, advocates using virtual environments for simulation and what-if studies, virtual process planning, ‘shop floor to top floor’ integration and product lifecycle management frameworks. According to our expert, green engineering enables the development of smarter, lighter, safer and more energy-efficient products.

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Global Engineering: Do More with Less

Global engineering helps companies accelerate innovation leading to faster time-to-market. According to Valmeeka Nathan, Vice President and Head of Product Lifecycle... and Engineering Solutions, Infosys Technologies, companies must adopt a structured transformation approach to achieve successful global engineering. A phased approach must effect behavioral changes in the engineering organization, identify programs, focus on processes for re-engineering and implement transition methodologies.

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Rewarding Innovation

While the jury debates whether offshoring can help in innovation, offshoring companies are certainly trying to help seed innovation. In context, ACM and Infosys have announced... a new award to recognize contemporary computing research and innovation.

Globalization and Offshoring of R&D

Though 'Moving up the value chain' is the Holy Grail of offshoring, it is a phrase most gurus and IT leaders are hard pressed to elaborate. This said, offshoring of Research & Development,... and some of the high-end work, is already happening.

More Companies are Outsourcing Innovation: But what does it mean to you?

Agreed, organizations and executives are certainly looking to leverage external skills and talents when it comes to innovation; and the idea here is not very radical. Even a couple of years ago, the business press had begun talking up "Outsourcing Innovation... " What has changed in recent times is the greater confidence of corporate leaders in the ability of offshore partners to deliver projects and work from halfway across toe globe.

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