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'India has been great for Boeing' - Express TravelWorld
The Boeing Company and HCL Technologies have recently inaugurated a Center of Excellence (CoE) to support test and evaluation operations at Boeing. Dr Dinesh Keskar, president, Boeing India talks about the technology practices/processes they aim to develop at the Chennai-based CoE and the future plans of the company in India. By Sudipta Dev
Dr Dinesh Keskar
What is the function of Boeing Test and Evaluation?
Boeing Test & Evaluation (BT&E) tests and validates all Boeing products to help ensure they are safe and reliable, operate as designed and meet the requirements of customers and regulatory agencies around the world. Test and validation are vital activities to designing and delivering new products to customers. In addition to conducting flight tests, BT&E tests a broad range of products in more than 250 test environments such as wind tunnels, icing tunnels, lightning labs, propulsion labs, acoustic labs and flight simulators.
What are the reasons that led to setting up of the CoE in India?
Boeing and HCL has a close relationship for the past five years. Due to their quality of service, HCL was selected to create robust engineering application tools, which will enable BT&E to manage its IT systems more efficiently.
Do you have similar CoEs in other countries? Where?
As the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined, Boeing has many partners across the globe. We have strategic partnerships in China, Russia, Canada, and India, among others. These partnerships allow Boeing to leverage diverse technology and skills under agreements that are similar to our agreement with HCL, although they are known by different names.
Which technology practices /processes do you aim to develop at the CoE?
The facility will provide engineering applications design, development and support for applications that BT&E will use. BT&E provides effective and efficient test and evaluation services that support business programs across Boeing.
What kind of benchmarks do you aim to set?
Our goal in creating a center of excellence in India is to leverage the sound technical capability that India offers to support the requirement for engineering application, design, development and support for BT&E.
Why have you chosen HCL as a technology partner for your CoE?
We selected HCL because of their deep understanding of the global aerospace and defence industry and their proven expertise in implementing large, complex projects in the aviation sector.
What are your future plans in India?
India holds a unique status for us. Both the aviation and defence markets are significant and the India industry has huge potential. Boeing values India as a key aerospace partner and we are enhancing our strong, long-standing relationship with Indian government and industry. The pace and depth of our engagement with Indian industry through products, services and partnership has increased in recent years. Boeing is pursuing a 'One Partnership' integrated strategy to become Indias preferred aerospace and defence partner and provider. The advantages and benefits we can offer the customer by pulling together all the talent, technology, capabilities and products from the commercial and defence sides of Boeing is unmatched by any other company in the world.
But before that, Boeing has had a long relationship with India. We started our journey here with the DC 3 about six decades ago and, over the time, we have gradually got success after success by putting the 707s into India, then the 747s, now the 777s and the very latest 787 will be introduced in India next year. So its been a long and fruitful time here. In the last five years, India has grown to new heights and with the better relationship between the US and Indian governments, we are now able to participate in the defence arena. We have already achieved success in the area of P8I, recently C-17s and are now involved in the large fighter competition where F-A/18 super hornet is our candidate. India also has the unique opportunity of building a strong supply base from here to the world. We are collaborating with the India industry to grow the ecosystem. While manufacturing is picking up, India was always known for software. We are producing and buying a lot of things from them and other software companies like Wipro, Infosys, HCL, TCS, which are big name companies in India and this is a two way thing that we are doing. In March of last year, we opened a research centre in Bengaluru which has been a good success, the former president of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, visited it and was pleased, so I think India has been great for Boeing and Boeing has come a long way in India over the last 60 years.
The Boeing Company and HCL Technologies have recently inaugurated a Center of Excellence (CoE) to support test and evaluation operations at Boeing. Dr Dinesh Keskar, president, Boeing India talks about the technology practices/processes they aim to develop at the Chennai-based CoE and the future plans of the company in India. By Sudipta Dev
Dr Dinesh Keskar
What is the function of Boeing Test and Evaluation?
Boeing Test & Evaluation (BT&E) tests and validates all Boeing products to help ensure they are safe and reliable, operate as designed and meet the requirements of customers and regulatory agencies around the world. Test and validation are vital activities to designing and delivering new products to customers. In addition to conducting flight tests, BT&E tests a broad range of products in more than 250 test environments such as wind tunnels, icing tunnels, lightning labs, propulsion labs, acoustic labs and flight simulators.
What are the reasons that led to setting up of the CoE in India?
Boeing and HCL has a close relationship for the past five years. Due to their quality of service, HCL was selected to create robust engineering application tools, which will enable BT&E to manage its IT systems more efficiently.
Do you have similar CoEs in other countries? Where?
As the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined, Boeing has many partners across the globe. We have strategic partnerships in China, Russia, Canada, and India, among others. These partnerships allow Boeing to leverage diverse technology and skills under agreements that are similar to our agreement with HCL, although they are known by different names.
Which technology practices /processes do you aim to develop at the CoE?
The facility will provide engineering applications design, development and support for applications that BT&E will use. BT&E provides effective and efficient test and evaluation services that support business programs across Boeing.
What kind of benchmarks do you aim to set?
Our goal in creating a center of excellence in India is to leverage the sound technical capability that India offers to support the requirement for engineering application, design, development and support for BT&E.
Why have you chosen HCL as a technology partner for your CoE?
We selected HCL because of their deep understanding of the global aerospace and defence industry and their proven expertise in implementing large, complex projects in the aviation sector.
What are your future plans in India?
India holds a unique status for us. Both the aviation and defence markets are significant and the India industry has huge potential. Boeing values India as a key aerospace partner and we are enhancing our strong, long-standing relationship with Indian government and industry. The pace and depth of our engagement with Indian industry through products, services and partnership has increased in recent years. Boeing is pursuing a 'One Partnership' integrated strategy to become Indias preferred aerospace and defence partner and provider. The advantages and benefits we can offer the customer by pulling together all the talent, technology, capabilities and products from the commercial and defence sides of Boeing is unmatched by any other company in the world.
But before that, Boeing has had a long relationship with India. We started our journey here with the DC 3 about six decades ago and, over the time, we have gradually got success after success by putting the 707s into India, then the 747s, now the 777s and the very latest 787 will be introduced in India next year. So its been a long and fruitful time here. In the last five years, India has grown to new heights and with the better relationship between the US and Indian governments, we are now able to participate in the defence arena. We have already achieved success in the area of P8I, recently C-17s and are now involved in the large fighter competition where F-A/18 super hornet is our candidate. India also has the unique opportunity of building a strong supply base from here to the world. We are collaborating with the India industry to grow the ecosystem. While manufacturing is picking up, India was always known for software. We are producing and buying a lot of things from them and other software companies like Wipro, Infosys, HCL, TCS, which are big name companies in India and this is a two way thing that we are doing. In March of last year, we opened a research centre in Bengaluru which has been a good success, the former president of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, visited it and was pleased, so I think India has been great for Boeing and Boeing has come a long way in India over the last 60 years.
