On September 11, 2012 I got chance to visit PTC R&D
center Pune, India for the press conference.
This was for first time I visited PTC development center, the building
was quite impressive, looks like some 3D Assembly! It was nice to see many of
the media folks that I only get to see at CAD events, automotive and
manufacturing expos. The purpose of this conference was not just to give an overview
on PTC’s product line but aim was to introduce R&D Pune center, its
activities to world.
PTC Software (India) Pvt. Ltd. Marisoft
The day started off with Jeffery
W. Wilmot, Country Manager for India and Senior Vice
President of product lifecycle, delivering the
keynote, “PTC’s Initiatives”. The theme was:
‘Delivering product and
service advantage’
As a CAD user and customer,
it is always good to see the priorities and commitments of company
towards customer.
Jeff was appointed as new SVP, Country Manager for
India in May 2012. He works from Bangalore office. It was very good opportunity for us to interact
with him to know his views on various fronts. His prior experience is with US
market but looks very passionate to work in India. He sees tremendous
growth potential here; and said “India has always been a major focus area for
PTC”
With a focus on resolving
customer problems, he gave an overview on the company’s approach in solving
challenges using process expertise, technology and following customer centric
engagement model.
Furthermore, he gave
information on company’s global presence. Anybody reading this post would be exultant
to see the global figures.
6100 employees in 30
countries around the world
1950 R&D employees
1375 service professionals
27, 000+ active customers
1,193, 000+ Windchill users
1,566,000+ total active
seats
It was nice to know that
42% of R&D employees work from Pune, India and it is the biggest R&D
center among the 18 global R&D locations worldwide. “Our success
so far in India is indicative of the tremendous growth and opportunity that we
see in the Indian design and engineering industry”, said Jeffery W. Wilmot
In last couple of years, Pune
has emerged as the best choice for outsourcing R&D work for American and European
corporations due to availability of English speaking educated, skilled manpower. Also, there are many small innovative companies who have created an
ecosystem for research excellence.
Pune is the focal point for
India's CAD, CAM and CAE activity. PTC is not only the company hosting
its development center here but there are many renowned CAD vendors like Geometric Global, Autodesk, Bentley, Tata Technologies,
3dplm, Delcam, Altair, Ansys and Siemens PLM having their development centers
here. Today, there are more than 5000 CAD, CAM and CAE software developers
here.
“We are doing excellent business in India this year, no
matter what media talks about the down economy and manufacturing sector growth”
said Mr. Jeff
Mr. Venkateswaran Pazhambalacode, Jeffery W. Wilmot and Dr. Rajiv Agarwal
He concluded his presentation by giving overview on PTC’s
academic initiatives and social activities.
Next to take over the stage was Mr. Venkateswaran
Pazhambalacode, VP Software development.
His name was not new to me, I often heard about him from my
friends working in R&D. He is very active person involved in software
development activities of almost all PTC products for last 18 years. He looks
after the product management, development, testing and release management
teams. He joined Computer Vision in 1994 and got into PTC, when it acquired
Computer Vision in Jan 1998.
It was really great feeling to know the growth story of the company
in India from Mr. Venkateswaran who is with the company all these years. “Company started with 180 employees in 1998,
today we have reached to 750 employees in Pune” said Mr. Venkateswaran
He gave brief intro about the software lifecycle evolution
at R&D. Company has developed its own standards to make world class
innovative products. “I feel very proud
to tell that the products like Creo, Windchill and Arbotext are developed at
our facility in Pune” said Mr.Venkateshwaran
The company has around 400 professionals for Windchill
development in India. The leading automotive manufacturers and home appliances
manufacturers worldwide manages their product development and business
processes throughout life cycle with the Windchill certifies the quality
product developed by R&D team.
42% of PTC’s total R&D professionals are Indians. In
2004 company shifted to Marisoft facility and later added Weikfield IT CITI Info Park facility
in 2006. Today, 348 employees work from Marisoft and 348 from Weikfield. There
is also a small team of 33 professionals working from Hyderabad.
“Our employees are biggest asset for us; we have around 100
employees with more than 10 years of experience with PTC” said Mr.
Venkateswaran
Just outstanding!
Nice to know about so many employees working with a single
organization for more than 10 years. Company has best talents working in
R&D, it’s a gossip in CAD developers community that cracking an interview
in PTC is much difficult than other CAD vendors working from India. PTC offers
competitive packages along with the world class facilities and workspace.
Dr. Rajiv Agarwal, VP Software development was
up next to introduce company’s social and academic activities. . He manages all the
development and quality assurance activities for PTC’s Creo software product
line.
It was nice to know the overwhelming response to FIRST (For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge India
Robotic Competition last year.
FIRST Tech challenge is really very good initiative by
company. It gives students an opportunity to exhibit and sharpen their creative
talent under the supervision of industry experts while providing an
international platform for students who wish to contribute and excel in the
field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Basic training on
Creo, Mathcad and Windchill is given to participants to develop a working model
of robot with guidance from mentors.
This year’s FIRST challenge is announced. More than 50
volunteers from PTC Pune have already registered to guide students for the
forthcoming competition. Class VIII and IX School students throughout country
participate in building and programming the robot. The winners here are given chance to compete
at world event.
FIRST website, visit for details http://www.ptc.com/company/community/first/index.htm
PTC also, offers around fifty internship for engineering students every year. Internship period vary from 6 months to 1
year. Large percentage of interns turns to employees.
With speakers
Overall, it was a remarkable
event. Building great products depends on great people. Really good to
know the more about PTC’s R&D facility and happy to know about India’s
contribution to CAD world!
