CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 January 2008
Product News
HCL Partners With Visiprise to Provide Professional Services to Global Manufacturers in the Medical Device Industry
HCL Technologies Ltd. ("HCL"), a leading global IT services company, has entered into a global consulting partnership with Visiprise, Inc. for the Life Sciences industry, covering all aspects of the medical device manufacturing cycle. Visiprise provides manufacturing execution solutions (MES) that help global manufacturers to gain visibility into operations, achieve shop floor control and manage product and process traceability. The consulting agreement will include joint marketing, sales and pre-sales services and will result in the ability for seamless licensing, blueprinting, implementation, plant-business integration, roll-out, support, upgrade / migration and instance consolidation services to manufacturers.
The strategic partnership will further strengthen HCL's position as "innovators/leaders" in the Manufacturing IT landscape with initial focus on medical devices further expanding to Hitech, Aerospace, Auto and other discrete industries. Under this agreement Visiprise will also be training and certifying HCL consultants on Visiprise solutions.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Pradep Nair, VP, Global Life Sciences and Healthcare practice, HCL Technologies, said, "With increasing global competition, it is imperative for manufacturers to innovate faster, cheaper, with sustained/better quality meeting stringent regulatory norms. Manufacturers are therefore making strategic investments in comprehensive IT solutions focused towards improving efficiency in the plant operations and increasing collaboration between engineering, enterprise and plant functions as well as extended eco systems such as partners and suppliers. HCL's partnership with Visiprise is well poised in bringing about the transformational change in plant operations. We believe that Visiprise's technology and strategic alignment with SAP and PLM vendors will help customers in seamless business integration from shop-floor to top-floor, which aligns well with HCL's focus towards Manufacturing IT solutions and services."
"HCL's focus in medical devices, coupled with their comprehensive approach in providing total plant-level IT aligns well with our vision of delivering a total manufacturing solution for the integrated enterprise," said Mike Lacky, Vice President of industry business units from Visiprise. "HCL Technologies has a global footprint and a proven ability to deliver solutions in a complex, manufacturing environment."
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