L&T Tech opens centre in Dublin

L&T Technology Services, which provides innovative engineering as well as research and development services across sectors, on Monday opened a new engineering centre in Dublin to get greater pie in the $1 trillion global engineering R&D market.

In an interaction with DH, L&T Technology Services Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director Kumar Prabhas said the new centre will expand its reach into the North American market.

“The centre will showcase technologies, product design and manufacturing engineering processes dedicated to supporting digital engineering, regional talent development and expansion of L&T Technology Services’ North American operations,” he said.

Besides offices in California, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, Texas, Ohio in North America, the company has engineering centres in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Mysuru and Vadodara.

Prabhas said engineering R&D has $365 billion addressable business, and out of which $67 billion is addressed today. “It is really an under-served market. The company is focussing on five verticals that include industrial products (IP), medical, transportation, telecom and high-tech, and process industries (consumer industries),” he said.

He said the company is focussing on IP, medical and transportation areas taking into account the market size and the company’s competitiveness. “Our multi-vertical strategy helps us address these markets, as there is a tilt towards software and cross-pollination of innovation. You can take expertise in one vertical to another vertical,” he said.

The company has filed 34 patents and co-authored 134 patents with others. It has more than 200 employees operating out of its onshore delivery centre’s in the US and more than 8,000 engineers from nine nationalities.