KPIT Cummins
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KPIT Cummins is a product engineering
Product engineering
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 and IT consulting company providing solutions and services to the Manufacturing
Manufacturing
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, Automotive, Industrial Equipments, Utilities and Semiconductor
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

 companies. It is headquartered in Pune India
India
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 and has offices in 11 countries including the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, China
China
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, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, France
France
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, South Africa
South Africa
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, Germany
Germany
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, United States
United States
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, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Singapore
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 and Korea
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. Worldwide KPIT Cummins has over 6500 employees.

Quick Facts

  1. Offices in 11 countries
  2. 6500 employees
  3. 155+ customers
  4. Among BEST 5 companies by Industry focus: Automotive - International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), (2009)
  5. Among top 10 Engineering Services Vendors - Global Services 100 (2010)
  6. A specialist provider having strong Intellectual Property
    Intellectual property
    Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

     for various automotive processes
    Process (engineering)
    In engineering a process is a set of interrelated tasks that, together, transform inputs into outputs. These tasks may be carried out by people, nature, or machines using resources; so an engineering process must be considered in the context of the agents carrying out the tasks, and the resource...

     from design to customer data. - Forrester Research
    Forrester Research
    Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Forrester Research has five research centers in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; San Francisco, California;...

     (2010)
  7. KPIT Cummins are specialists in product engineering
    Product engineering
    Product engineering refers to the process of designing and developing a device, assembly, or system such that it be produced as an item for sale through some production manufacturing process. Product engineering usually entails activity dealing with issues of cost, producibility, quality,...

     design and one of the world’s leading automotive software developers. - Strategy Analytics Blog (2010) http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/auto/?p=114

History

KPIT Cummins started as a financial auditing firm decades before moving into the field of software. Close to late 80s they started developing software for banks and financial firms and went on to expand in other domains like manufacturing. Today, KPIT Cummins is one of the fastest growing IT and Engineering Services provider globally.

KPIT Cummins is focused on key verticals of Automotive, Manufacturing and Energy and Utilities.

Profit centers

Key industries
  • Manufacturing
    Manufacturing
    Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

  • Automotive
    Automotive industry
    The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue....

  • Semiconductor
    Semiconductor
    A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

  • High Tech
    High tech
    High tech is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology currently available. It is often used in reference to micro-electronics, rather than other technologies. The adjective form is hyphenated: high-tech or high-technology...

  • Energy & Utilities
    Energy industry
    The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution...

  • Transportation industry
  • Government
    Government
    Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

  • Defense
    Defense contractor
    A defense contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military department of a government. Products typically include military aircraft, ships, vehicles, weaponry, and electronic systems...



Key offerings
  • Automotive Engineering
    Automotive engineering
    Modern automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and marine engineering, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles,...

  • Automotive Electronics Software
  • Mechanical Engineering Design
    Mechanical engineering technology
    Mechanical engineering technology is the application of physical principles and current technological developments to the creation of useful machinery and operation design. Technologies such as solid models may be used as the basis for finite element analysis and / or computational fluid dynamics ...

  • Chip Design
    Integrated circuit
    An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

  • Embedded Software
    Embedded software
    Embedded software is computer software that plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.Embedded software's principal role is not Information technology , but rather the interaction with the physical world. It's written for machines that are not, first and foremost, computers...

  • Business Process Management
    Business process management
    Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to...

  • Business Intelligence
    Business intelligence
    Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....

  • Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
    Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
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  • Supply Chain
    Supply chain
    A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...

     Consulting
  • Customer Relationship Management
    Customer relationship management
    Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...

     (CRM)
  • IT Strategy
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
    Enterprise resource planning
    Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

     (ERP)
  • E-Business
  • Enterprise Application Integration
    Enterprise application integration
    Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...

     (EAI)
  • Knowledge Process Outsourcing
    Knowledge process outsourcing
    Knowledge process outsourcing is a form of outsourcing, in which knowledge-related and information-related work is carried out by workers in a different company or by a subsidiary of the same organization, which may be in the same country or in an offshore location to save cost...

     (KPO)

Research and development

The Center for Research in Engineering Sciences and Technology (CREST) is the Research and Development
Research and development
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 department of KPIT Cummins. It is focused on innovation
Innovation
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, technology, and R&D
Research and development
The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...

 in emerging technologies. The CREST team files patents and publishes research papers in international conferences. CREST has filed 37 global patents so far.

Partnerships

Enterprise IT
Application software
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- SAP
SAP AG
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 Gold Channel partner India

- SAP Services partner

- Apriso Solution partner for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

- Member of Oracle Partner Network

Automotive
Automotive industry
The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue....



- Partnership with VaST for delivering Virtualization Tools and Services

- Premium membership with Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR
AUTOSAR
AUTOSAR is an open and standardized automotive software architecture, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers, suppliers and tool developers...

)

- Premium membership with Japan Automotive Software Platform Architecture (JasPar)

- Membership of GENIVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment
Infotainment
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 (IVI) reference platform)

Semiconductor
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

 Solutions


- Member of ARM
ARM architecture
ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

 Connected Community

- Founder member of India Semiconductor Association ISA
ISA
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Timeline

Date: Event:
1990 KPIT Infosystems incorporated by a group of CPA
Certified Public Accountant
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s
1994–1998 Excellence in exports award from Government of India
1995–1996 Outstanding achievement award from Oracle
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

1997 Achieved ISO 9001, certified by KPMG
KPMG
KPMG is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands....

1999 IPO: 42 times oversubscribed. Became a public limited company
Public limited company
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 in India
2002 Merger of Cummins
Cummins
Cummins Inc. is a Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems...

 Infotech into KPIT Infosystems to KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited
2004 ISO 9001:2000 Acquisition of Panex Consulting – USA
2005 Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers
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 take 8% stake in KPIT Cummins. Integrated all offshore facilities in Pune, India into the state of the art campus at Hinjawadi
Hinjawadi
Hinjewadi or Hinjawadi or Hinjwadi was a small village on the NH4 bypass around the City of Pune in India. Now it's the Place for Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park housing around 20 software companies as listed below....

. Acquisition of SolvCentral.com – USA. Acquisition of Pivolis.com – France.
2006 Acquisition of CG Smith, India
2007 Achieved corporate mission of being a USD $100 million company by the financial year 2006-2007 Strategic investment by Cargill Ventures, a venture capital
Venture capital
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 arm of Cargill Inc.
2008 Acquisition of Mechanical Design Services business of Harita TVS Technologies, India.
2009 Acquisition of Sparta Consultin - California, USA based firm leading provider of high end SAP solutions
2010 Acquisition of CPG Solutions - Boca Raton, USA based Oracle Applications Consulting Expertise
2010 Acquisition of In2Soft GmBH - Berlin, Germany based Vehicle Diagnostics and telematics specialists
2010 Acquisition of SYSTIME-Mumbai
2011 Diversified Financial Services(under IES) sold to Infrasoft Technologies Ltd.

Mergers and Acquisitions

1) Cummins
Cummins
Cummins Inc. is a Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems...

 Infotech Ltd.
(2002) - Merger with Cummins Infotech Limited

Software development arm of Cummins Inc. - the worlds largest producer of diesel engine
Diesel engine
A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber...

s

2) Panex Consulting Inc. (2003) - Acquisition of Panex Consulting Inc., USA

SAP implementation services in Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing space

3) SolvCentral.com (2005) - Acquisition of SolvCentral.com

A leading Business Intelligence services and products company

4) Pivolis.com (2005) - Acquisition of Pivolis.com, France

Leading outsourcing consultancy

5) CG Smith Software Pvt. Ltd. (2006) - Acquisition of CG Smith Software Pvt. Ltd.

Leading Automotive Electronics Software & Solutions company and a member of AUTOSAR

6) Harita TVS (2008) - Acquisition of Mechanical Design Services Business of Harita TVS Technologies

Engineering Design Services Company catering to Automotive and Construction & Industrial Machinery.
7) Sparta Consulting (2009) - Acquisition of California, USA based firm leading provider of high end SAP solutions.

8) CPG Solutions (2010) - Acquisition of US based firm, a provider of Oracle consulting services to manufacturing and supply chain companies.

9) In2Soft GmBH (2010) - Acquisition of Berlin, German based vehicle diagnostics and telematics specialist In2Soft Gmbh.

10) KPIT Cummins Infosystems sold the Diversified Financial Services business under IES to Infrasoft Technologies Ltd. in July 2011. Along with that 140 employees across different locations working in Diversified Financial Services of KPIT were moved to Infrasoft Technologies Ltd.

Leadership Team

Name Job Title
Ravi Pandit Chairman and Group CEO
Kishor Patil CEO & Managing Director

Corporate Social Responsibility

KPIT Cummins gives:

- Scholarships are awarded to female students of the Bhagini Nivedita Pratishthan for computer related training

- Donations of computers to villages surrounding Pune has also helped increase the rural areas awareness of health issues, education, government programs as well as agricultural information

- Runs various in house donation drives on event of calamities.

- Hardware and software support to not-for-profit organizations in the United States of America (USA) Columbus Indiana

- Participates in School kit donation drives run by Social Group Seva Sahyog.

- Connects with local NGO Surajya for various social activities mainly imparting knowledge to needy section of society.

KPIT Cummins participates and hosts:

- Blood donation drives with the help of Jana Kalyan Rakta Pedhi and Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital on the Hinjawadi premises

- Donation drive for the Nav Maharashtra Community Foundation (Navam), a non-profit organization that supports innovative community projects in rural Maharashtra

- Clothes donation drive where boxes of clothes are collected and donated to volunteer agencies, SOS children villages, orphanages and other institutions

- World Environment Day = annual tree plantation drive

- Children’s Day = toys are collected and donated to various adoption centers and orphanages

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