Indian IT giant Infosys and British luxury automobile maker. Rolls-Royce, have announced the opening of their joint “Aerospace Engineering and Digital Innovation Centre’ in Bengaluru.
The centre is the extension of the partnership that Infosys signed signed with Rolls-Royce in December 2020, for sourcing engineering and R&D Services for Rolls-Royce's Civil Aerospace business.
The centre has been established to provide high-end research and development (R&D) services integrated with advanced digital capabilities to Rolls-Royce’s engineering and group business services from India. Infosys and Rolls-Royce’s collaboration has been reinforced through strategic deals, aimed at yielding mutual benefits to both organisations over the next seven years.
As part of this collaboration, Infosys and Rolls-Royce will combine their aerospace, engineering and digital services capabilities to explore opportunities for driving digital and engineering innovation and associated cost optimisation strategies. By expanding the local talent pool in the country, the two companies will also deliver manufacturing engineering services for the global civil aerospace ecosystem.
By expanding the local talent pool in the country, the two companies will also deliver manufacturing engineering services for the global civil aerospace ecosystem.
Over the last decade, Rolls-Royce established a multidisciplinary engineering centre in Bengaluru as part of its efforts to boost engineering and R&D services in India.
Rolls-Royce launched R2 Data Labs, which is a innovation lab by the company, in 2017, and in 2019 the R2 Data Labs launched a startup accelerator in Bengaluru. The first cohort of this accelerator program was announced in September of the same year. The R2 Data Labs-powered programme and was supported by NUMA Bengaluru.
Of late Aerospace sector has seen a sudden boom in the country. Last December, mach33.aero - an Accelerator and Incubation Platform for Entrepreneurs in Aerospace and Allied Industries, was launched by Social Alpha, an initiative supported by Tata Trusts, along with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) [an enterprise under DST, Ministry of S&T, Govt. of India] and CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL).
Last month, ISRO and Central University of Jammu together announced the launch of a major space & aviation training institute in Jammu for the course of BTech in "Aviation & Aeronautics". The selection criteria for same will be through IIT-JEE .
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