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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Automotive Engineering Offshore activity gaining ground in India

India is steadily gaining ground in almost all kind of outsourcing and offshoring services. Automotive engineering offshore activity is also gaining ground. Currently automotive offshoring has been a small component of engineering offshoring activity in India. As per one of the estimation global engineering offshoring activity amounts to $10-15 bn and India accounts for just around 12% of this market. The global offshore engineering spend is expected to grow to anything between USD150-225 Bn by 2020 and India could have around 20-25% share of this industry. Automotive offshoring is expected to contribute a big chunk of this engineering offshore pie.

As per another recent survey by Frost & Sullivan, Indian automotive engineering service outsourcing industry is expected to clock a 32% growth by 2012-13 and is likely to generate USD 2.2 bn in revenues for the country in next two years. The report also emphasized on spin-off of automotive engineering services from IT sector to realize better growth opportunities.

Leading global automakers like Toyota, Daimler-Chrysler, Fiat, Ford etc source components from India. Both Toyota and Volvo source gear box for the automobile range from India. Daimler-Chrysler not just sources components but also uses IT services for integrating electronic gadgets in their cars. In fact Daimler-Chrysler sourced USD125 Mn worth of such components and software from India.

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