HCL signs an Agreement with Manitowoc Cranes

HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL) has announced that it has been selected by The Manitowoc Company, Inc. Manitowoc and HCL have also set up a global engineering centre in Pune, India to support Manitowoc’s design centres and accelerate its new product development initiatives in regions such as India, China and Brazil.

 

Through this design centre, HCL offers a complete spectrum of engineering services to Manitowoc Cranes to produce blueprints for new and innovative crane models. HCL also anticipates, simulates, and provides novel solutions in design implementation in a cost-effective and timely manner. The design centre also extends engineering design services support to Manitowoc’s key engineering hubs and innovation centres in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Germany, France and Italy. The service offerings are primarily focussed around product design, value engineering, structural engineering, embedded software development, and hardware engineering.  

 

“Partnering with HCL enables us to further strengthen the core tenets of our strategy - to provide superior products and capitalize on global growth opportunities,” said Jens Ennen, Senior Vice-President - Global Engineering & Innovation, Manitowoc Cranes. “We are confident that our partnership with HCL will accelerate our business imperatives in the emerging markets,” Jens added.

 

“HCL’s alignment to the key business imperatives of Manitowoc and synergies between our business objectives proved to be the key differentiators during our partner evaluation process,” said Suresh Natarajan, Director - Global Engineering Services, Manitowoc Cranes.