Tecumseh India

HYDERABAD: Tecumseh India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of $2 billion Tecumseh Products of the US, has decided to spin off its engineering design centre called the CADEM Centre into a separate company. The centre is equipped with latest software's for modeling and analysis. It is now in discussion with companies in the US and Germany and will approa... ch companies in the UK soon for undertaking their CAD and analysis related work. "The CADEM Centre will remain a 100% subsidiary of Tecumseh India. We will spin it off as a separate company next year," said Vipin Sondhi, Managing Director, Tecumseh India. The centre, which started off with four employees in July 2001, currently employs 24 people. By May 2003, the centre plans to have 100 employees to achieve its critical mass. The centre is fully secured for data transmission, as the work undertaken is mission critical. Ever since its inception, the CADEM Centre has undertaken a variety of projects of both modeling and analysis from the parent company. The CADEM Centre helps Tecumseh save 30 per cent of its cost. "We have engineers with software knowledge. We need people with domain knowledge. We use Unigraphics for modeling and Ansys for analysis," said R.Ravi, Deputy General Manager, management co-ordination and IT, Tecumseh India. He added that this calls for highly skilled people and high performing hardware. "The CADEM Centre is equipped to cater to appliances, white goods, auto components, machine tools and aeronautical industries," R.Ravi said. Total solution is given to the customer. According to R.Ravi, being a US company it will help them in establishing an understanding with other foreign companies.Read More