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General Motors sets up technical centre in Bangalore
Circuit EC / Bangalore
General Motors’ (GM) Bangalore-based
technical centre will commence operations from June this year. The
state-of-the-art technical centre would be housing 260 engineers
and would be providing technical support to GM’s other technical
centres across the globe. The centre will not carry out product
development, unlike GM’s other technical centres in the Asia
Pacific region located in Australia and China, but will only be
providing technical support.
GM has also tied up with many Indian educational
institutions, including the IITs and IISc to leverage their knowledge
and skills for research work in automotive structural materials
and manufacturing processes at the technical centre. Engineers at
the centre would conduct projects for export in critical areas like
CAD/CAM and would complement GM’s current research projects.
John D Cohoon, executive director, Global
Engineering for GM said, “GM would be investing $60 million
for the next three years into facilities and infrastructure at the
technical centre. The opening of this technical centre—which
will run in two shifts—will enable a 24-hour global engineering
organisation, which in turn will speed up vehicle development time.”
GM’s Indian technical centre would
be headed by Sheila Jain Sarver who, prior to her present assignment,
was a vehicle performance manager for mid-size trucks in the Performance
Integration Group at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford,
Michigan.
The work at the technical centre would
primarily be innovative or exploratory work.
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