Dr. R Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and Mr. B Ramalinga Raju, Chairman & Founder, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, unveiled the plaque to launch India’s first digital car.
Ramalinga Raju, Chairman & Founder, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, said, “Now the time has come for India Inc to go beyond being a services outsourcing destination and get into the league of IP led innovation driven services and there by being acknowledged as the global R & D ,design and innovation Hub”.
Mr.Ramalinga Raju also added, “We are making investments in technology and resource creation to cater to the growing needs of our global customers in this domain. We have carefully built vertical domain capabilities in Satyam and especially in automotive domain where we have a distinct market leadership.”
“e-Automotive R & D 2007 : The Opportunities Ahead”, brings the leading research institutes and the Government representatives connecting to the automotive and ICT industries to spearhead the research initiatives in diverse areas of automotive engineering. These areas include Alternate Fuels, Hybrid Engines, Design of vehicle subsystems, Virtual Test Drive Solutions, to other emerging areas like infotainment, Info-tronics and digital manufacturing.
This initiative brings the IT industry, institutions, R & D groups, various industry associations together to form groups of consortium and work on India’
kind. This car will combine various consortium research efforts in the country at its different sub assemblies to symbolize the combined efforts of Satyam, other ICT players in the country, Universities and Institutions in India partnering with players from the Indian automotive world.
Ramalinga Raju said “This effort is to bring out the innovation among the various industry and academic partners and to project India as the hub for creating IP specific R & D and Design capabilities to inculcate the scope to handle large R & D offshoring opportunities and communicate the capability of “India As a Whole” to the external world.”
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“We would like to play the role of enabler to bring different stakeholders together and facilitate integration of India based R&D involving institutes and industries. In the entire process Satyam would provide the technology framework, infrastructure solutions in automotive design, automotive infotronics, collaborative engineering, digital manufacturing and supply chain solutions for global automotive customers,” added Subu D.
Once completed HERA fxV ,India’s first digital car would be a technological demonstration of India’s design capabilities and superiority and of course draw the much required attention of global players towards India as an innovation led design hub.
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