Japanese CFD Solutions Provider Cradle Expands its Services in India with an Affiliate Company Contravolts InfoTech Private Limited, Bangalore

Japanese producer of CFD solution, Software Cradle Co., Ltd has unveiled plans to expand in the India, with opening of an office in the silicon city of India, Bangalore.  It’s not just an office but an affiliate company, Contravolts InfoTech Private Limited India.

The Contravolts InfoTech Private Limited is based in Bangalore and was formed to market and support Cradle's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for aerospace, automotive, electronics, and general industries applications. The company offers technical support, training, consultancy, and expertise to customers in India. The team is comprised of industry professionals, consultants, and academics from leading technical industries.

"India is an influential region in the field of technology.  Having a presence there will assuredly help Cradle reach a large market of engineers who are looking to enhance their skills with CFD software solutions," said Ichiro Komada, president of Software Cradle.

The establishment of Contravolts will allow Cradle to better support its customers throughout India and the surrounding area. Company has hired the professionals to offer tech support, training and services to their clients in India.  

The company has wide range of products like,

ScSTREAM - General Purpose Structured Mesh Thermal-fluid Analysis System
SC/Tetra - General Purpose Unstructured Mesh Thermal-fluid Analysis System
HEAT Designer - 3D Structured Mesh Thermal-fluid Analysis System for Electronics Cooling
CADthru – CAD Model Translator

Additionally, ContraVolts offers courses on MATLAB. The company would soon conduct seminars and webinars for the Indian design professionals from Bangalore office.

ContraVolts India site - http://www.contravolts.com

Cradle site - http://www.cradle-cfd.com

Tata Consulting Engineers India (TCE) to use Autodesk's Building Information Modeling (BIM) Solutions

Let us first take a look at ‘Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE)’ so that the readers outside India or those not aware about the Tata’s presence in this sector would understand the importance of the deal.  TCE is one of India's leading engineering consulting organizations. Established as Tata-Ebasco Consulting Engineering Services in 1962, the company is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited. TCE is ranked 188 among top international design firms for engineering in a ENR survey 2013. 

TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary services in project engineering across several sectors. The firm has completed more than 7,000 assignments, including the engineering of several power plants, large urban water supply, and waste water projects, several chemical, automotive and industrial plants.

Around 4000 highly qualified professionals work for the TCE. I think 70% out of 4000 are some way or the other associated with the design. I mean they are using CAD, CAE or FEA tools. TCE’s offices are located at Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Jamshedpur, a subsidiary office in Qatar and branch offices in the USA and South Africa.

Last week, Autodesk and TCE announced a strategic partnership to deliver Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions to customers in plant, infrastructure, construction and building industry verticals.

Under this deal, Tata Consulting Engineers will leverage BIM solutions offered by the Autodesk Building Design Suite, Infrastructure Design Suite and Plant Design Suite to bring business value to its global customers in power, infrastructure, chemical, process and building sectors serving them in the key markets of Africa, Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe and India, through joint business development and engineering consultancy services.

Commenting on the announcement, J.P Haran, Managing Director, Tata Consulting Engineers said, “This partnership with Autodesk will help Tata Consulting Engineers add value by implementing BIM solutions in the building, infrastructure and plant solution space. Providing technology-enabled solutions also complements our larger strategic goals in spreading our business in the global markets.”

Pradeep Nair, Managing Director, Autodesk India & SAARC said, “BIM goes well beyond traditional CAD software that is popular in most developing countries. India’s 12th Five-Year Plan envisages infrastructure investments of USD 1 trillion. BIM will help us derive cost and time savings in such mega-projects, while ensuring sustainability. As the leading provider of BIM solutions we are delighted to partner with Tata Consulting Engineers to promote the adoption of BIM in India and other emerging markets.”

The adoption of BIM has seen significant increase worldwide in areas of building, infrastructure and construction management. According to 2012 McGraw Hill North America BIM SmartMarket Report the percentage of companies using BIM jumped from 17 percent in 2007 to 71 percent in 2012 in North America. In UK, BIM is a central theme in the government’s construction strategy designed to reduce carbon and costs as part of the overall economic development. In Singapore, BIM is an important component of public housing projects.

The deal is great step for both the companies; the happiest people with the deal are the design engineers in the TCE. Now, they would use Revit or AutoCAD Civil for their projects! Before, TCE was using MicroStation. Design engineers were finding it very difficult work with the MicroStation. Most engineers are use-to AutoCAD since their student life and thus find difficulties in using other tools. Also, the clients are demanding for the BIM. So, great partnership for Autodesk and TCE, hope they achieve excellence and customer satisfaction! 

TCE Website - http://www.tce.co.in