Bangalore: The India centre of the General Motors'' technical centre will be capable to design and develop complete cars for the global market soon even as the centre plans to double its headcount to over 1,600 in two years. They are growing from engineering services to full product development service. The centre, which currently has around 800 engineers, is also the fastest growing among the 12 centres of the world''s leading car market. The centre will also establish the clay model of cars in November this year in its newly expanded 1.6 lakh square feet capacity near Bangalore.
Most of the global car makers have outsourced design and engineering part of their cars to Indian companies to reduce costs as well as to take advantage of the vast pool of talent in India. In three-five years, the centre will have the capability to do full vehicle development for the Indian market as well as for other markets. One of the policies of General Motors is to allow local engineers to slowly come of age rather than import a mature work force and put the centre on fast track. They give training, they have separate budgets for each centre and we also send engineers to work in other centres who come back equipped with doing better work as well as return with more work for the centre. The Bangalore centre currently does work on key sub-systems like bonnets and chasis sub-system and has started doing the entire face-lift for newer versions of passenger cars.
Source : www.indian-commodity.com
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