Cognizant in multi-mn $ Mfg forte

NEW JERSEY, US: Cognizant has signed an initial five-year, multi-million dollar contract with Invensys Operations Management to co-innovate and help clients stitch their plant-floor applications with their enterprise applications so they can access real-time manufacturing information.

This is a global product research and development alliance with Invensys Operations Management, that has its forte in solutions and consulting services to the process and manufacturing industries.

As to Cognizant, this relationship is expected to strengthen its presence in the manufacturing industry and strengthen its ability to provide end-to-end services to its customers. It will enable Cognizant to further expand its customer base in discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, energy and utilities, pharmaceutical, and consumer goods segments with services and offerings in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), the company shares.

These offerings will be supported through global engineering services in the areas of product design and development, industrial automation and control, and asset reliability engineering.

“This relationship is significant,” said Sudipta Bhattacharya, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invensys Operations Management. “The manufacturing technology market is at an inflection point as companies move to seamlessly stitch plant floor applications to enterprise applications to access and act on real-time manufacturing information. There is significant innovation happening at this intersection of the real-time manufacturing execution world and the transaction based enterprise world.  In Cognizant we have found a partner who shares our vision around where the market is headed for the next generation of engineering services and manufacturing operations solutions, and brings synergistic product development and software engineering capabilities and leading edge tools. We expect to be able to learn from the strengths each of us brings to the table.” 

Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant added. “We will significantly augment Invensys’ ability to innovate and ramp up the delivery of products by blending that talent with our own consulting, enterprise integration, services-based architecture, business intelligence, supply chain and product lifecycle management.

As a part of this relationship, Cognizant would augment and maintain Invensys’ suite of products, and bring in greater operational efficiency, scalability, consistency and cost-effectiveness to its global product R&D processes, says the press note. To realize this goal, offers to join Cognizant will be made to over 400 Invensys Operations Management professionals from its existing R&D center in Hyderabad, a company note adds.