Airbus hires Infosys Tech

IRIS

Infosys Technologies has been hired by aircraft maker, Airbus Industries, for

designing of wings. Infosys’ avionics group has already started working on the

project and expects to do more for the aircraft maker. Infosys has been focusing

on avionics domain as a high priority area.

The avionics group is part of the Infosys’ engineering services consulting

practice (ESCP) group. The main focus of the avionics group is to ensure that

the group is knowledgeable in terms of both software and hardware so as to

provide clients with the following capabilities: mission computers, flight

control and management systems, navigation systems and air traffic management.

Software application development, maintenance and re-engineering are some of

the traditional and well-known services that Infosys offers. However,

engineering services is a relatively unknown area and within focus for most

software exporters in India. The range of services which ESCP offers stretches

from product design and engineering analysis to embedded systems, from product

data management (PDM — where design teams in different locations can

collaborate) to e-Engineering.

The ESCP group was set up recently to target global leaders in the avionics

business. It comprises of professionals and senior industry consultants. The

ESCP builds life critical embedded software for some of the world’s leaders in

avionics, automotive, defence systems and medical electronics. The challenge

lies in providing predictable, affordable, maintainable, high integrity

software. Software has become a driving element in development and modernization

of civil and military avionics systems and thus software provided by Infosys

needs to safe and reliable.

Two of the most important features that separate life critical software from

other software are reliability and predictability. Infosys adopts techniques

such as failure modes and effects analysis to improve reliability of the

software products. Predictability is the ability of the software to behave in a

predictable manner. In building such life critical software, Infosys has enabled

its clients to reduce the total cost of ownership through reduction in time to

market with the help of its technical and managerial capabilities.

ESCP has a team strength of around 500 and is one of the fastest growing arm

of Infosys. ESCP is a key differentiator in Infosys` service offerings. It works

on high-end, technical and critical solutions, which would help Enterprise in

streamlining their manufacturing and business process. 200 of the Fortune 500

companies are in some kind of product development but the size of the market is

not known. Designers, analysts and test engineers are ESCP target staffers.

The engineering service contributed 2.9 per cent (1.6 per cent during the

same period last year) of the revenues during the quarter ended December 2001.

ESCP focuses on satisfying the immediate needs of clients in markets such as

automotive, aerospace and high-tech manufacturing by building a team of

individuals in the field of cross-platform integration.

Source: myiris.com