Siemens to expand Chennai engineering centre

Siemens’ Chennai-based graphics & engineering center of competence is planning to double its manpower to 200 engineers over the next two years and develop applications for global market, a senior company executive said here on Wednesday.

GECC Chennai will add talented people as business expands, growing from the current manpower of 85 people to over 100 by end of this year and 200 in the next one to two years, Elangovan Karuppiah, Executive Vice President of Siemens Pte Ltd, said.

The Chennai facility was started as a second support to the main centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, about 10 years ago but became an independent entity within the group in 2011 catering to the Asia Pacific and Middle East. Growth has been rapid over the past three years with Siemens US centres off-loading work to Chennai.