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Software Defined Networking is an emerging trend in the networking and communication industry and it promises to deliver enormous benefits, from reduced costs to more efficient network operations.

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The evolution of healthcare intelligence: Insights from HIMSS 2024

The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, held in Orlando from March 11-15, 2024, marked a significant moment in the convergence of healthcare and technology. The event, drawing in over 30,000 healthcare professionals and more than 1,000 exhibitors, underscored the accelerating integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into healthcare operations and patient care. It may be

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Project execution support for grid integration (HVDC) and grid stabilization (FACTS)

A major OEM in the high voltage segment was facing a shortage of skilled resources to execute grid integration and stabilization projects. We mobilized a team of engineers to expedite the customers’ HVDC and FACTS projects. We established a reliable system to train and develop talent to meet the current and future requirements of such

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Upgrading over 250Mn 2G subscribers to 4G technology

Upgraded customers of one of the world’s largest mobile operators from 2G to 4G technology and enhanced proliferation of 4G access in rural areas.

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Cloud-based value-added services (VAS) for a US-based Telecom provider

Provided customers with Cloud-based, value-added services that can be accessed and managed from their devices and offered next-gen messaging services for their users.

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From Aspiration to Action: A Collaborative Journey of Learning and Innovation

During a technical discussion, one of our esteemed customers in the rail domain, highlighted the problems faced in deploying AI models and the challenges associated with identifying the right kind of MLOps tools. I could understand and visualize the use case and wanted to replicate a similar scenario in-house as it could be a first

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Quest Defense: Going From 30 to 300

Looking back on the past three years, it’s incredible how much Quest Defense has grown. Back in May of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic took a serious toll on our business, and we were struggling to maintain a team of 30 people. Since then, we’ve greatly expanded our business operations, developed a thriving “working together” culture,

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Transforming Rail Mobility through Automation

With rapid changes in the technological landscape, staying ahead of the curve has become a significant challenge in the engineering world, impacting R&D departments, factories, and supply chains. Engineering is what powers the world we know today. Transportation relies on the engineering industry and the expertise of those who work in it to move the

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Assisted Driving to Autonomous Driving

Revolutionizing transportation as we know it, autonomous vehicle technology has taken the world by storm. Companies like Tesla, Waymo, Cruise, and Mercedes come to mind when we think of independent mobility. While Tesla has earned a reputation for its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), it’s essential to understand that there is a significant difference between

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Changing the Narrative – How Companies Can Transform Supply Chain Risk into a Strategic Competitive Advantage

During a recent dinner meeting with the SVP Supply Chain of a multibillion-dollar industrial company, the question was posed, “How has 2022 been so far, and how are you positioned to finish the year?” After a long pause, he responded, “there was never a dull moment.” He further explained that the events, which in the

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From trainee engineer to subject matter expert: My Quest Global journey has just begun

With my burning passion for solving challenges, I joined Quest Global fresh out of college in September 2011 as a trainee mechanical engineer. I still vividly remember the first few months. I was thrilled yet anxious to start my professional journey. I am forever thankful to my first manager, Rajkumar Rajasekaran, who welcomed me into

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GQIM 2023: Increasing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Quality and Information Security

Solving the world’s hardest engineering problems is a task riddled with risks that we relentlessly endeavor to minimize daily. To ensure that our teams are constantly at the top of their game, every year, we dedicate a month to Global Quality & Information Security (InfoSec), aka GQIM. Through GQIM, we focus our collective effort and

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Multi-modal Driver UX for Diminishing Driver Distraction

One of the most significant problems facing the automotive industry is the issue of driver distraction. Text messaging was considered to be the primary source of driver distraction for many years. However, studies have shown that in-vehicle touchscreens are more detrimental to driver reaction times than text messaging. A driver operating a touch screen experiences

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In Pursuit of Net Zero Product Delivery

Sustainability is at the forefront of our collective conscience. The next generation is incredibly environmentally focused, and the business world has to muster that same energy if we are to rise to the challenge of our global environmental crisis. As climate change normalizes natural disasters, it is more pressing than ever that businesses offer responses

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“How Humility and Collaboration Brought Me Success!” Arivazhagan V’s Story

I have been working in the oil & gas domain since 2013. My first job was in Rajasthan, India, where I worked for six years straight. I got married in 2018 and joined Quest Global in 2019. I was thrilled to join Quest Global because working here meant transitioning from a field job to a

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An Accidental Engineer or the Choice of Destiny?

Thirty years ago, if you saw a young boy playing basketball with his rookie team in shorts on a hot summer day, determined to become a professional sportsman, that was probably me. Hi, I am Tinku Malayil Jose, head of the Center of Excellence for Embedded and Device Engineering at Quest Global. My engineering journey

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I yearn to give my community the same opportunity I had

Originally from Puerto Rico, at 19, I was given the opportunity to play NCAA baseball in the USA. Despite the challenges, my parents knew this was the right decision for my future and encouraged me to shift to the USA. After playing my senior year at Eastern Connecticut State University, I went back. However, due

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Scarcity of Engineering Talent within Aerospace and Defense Organizations

The Covid-19 pandemic severely impacted the Aerospace industry, leading to significant restructuring within original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the aerospace supply chain. Production volumes were dramatically cut, and spending on new programs was canceled. However, the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry is seeing a faster than predicted recovery due to the rapid increase in airline

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Automotive

Enabling Digital Transformation of Products and Services Quest Global at CES 2023 Booth #11015 | North Hall, LVCC Jan 5 – 8,  Las Vegas Meet With Us ➤ Home Events CES 2023 Automotive Automotive Over the past few years, the dynamics of the automotive industry and consumer expectations have undergone seismic change. By integrating new

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Hi-Tech

Enabling Digital Transformation of Products and Services Quest Global at CES 2023 Booth #11015 | North Hall, LVCC Jan 5 – 8,  Las Vegas Meet With Us ➤ Home Events CES 2023 Hi-Tech Hi-Tech Radical technology disruptions continue to push the boundaries of human imagination every single day. Convergence of technologies, apps, and devices is

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Are Global Standards & Tests for Locomotives Stretching Your Budget & Delivery Timelines?

Since the first Industrial Revolution, trains have come a very long way. Railways have been the safest and most economical mode of global transportation for ages. And, in today’s world battling climate change, railways have emerged as the least-polluting mode of transport. To maintain and further enhance the safety promised for passengers & freight on

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Lucia Piedra: Proud of my Heritage

As a young Mexican-American girl, I was impressed and inspired by the great Hispanics of my time, such as Cesar Chavez—a great independence activist—and Ellen Ochoa—the first Hispanic woman to go to space. I, too, dreamt big, knowing there would be challenges and many obstacles along the way. But my vision to keep dreaming and

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Software Performance Testing & Benchmarking

Executive Summary According to Dunn & Bradstreet, 59% of Fortune 500 companies experience an estimated 1.6 hours of downtime weekly. Considering the average Fortune 500 Company with a minimum of 10,000 employees is paying $56 per hour, the labor part of downtime costs for such an organization would be $896,000 weekly, translating into more than

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Lead the Next Wave of Device Engineering

With almost 75% of manufacturing companies expecting servitization to dominate the future, manufacturers know they need to go beyond the physical products and offer more to customers. This holds particularly true in the devices market, with almost all brands offering similar product features at a specific price point. Today, thanks to rapidly changing technologies, OEMs/ODMs

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Rail Capabilities and Offerings

Rail Capabilities and Offerings The Rail industry is evolving to become a future-forward mode of transportation. Our clients need a trusted partner in solving the hardest engineering problems to help them adapt efficiently and earn the preference of a new generation of riders. The following interactive brochure summarizes how we help our customers in solving pressing industry problems like: Improving the passenger

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Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Sustenance Factory by Quest Global

Empowering customers overcome worldwide silicon crisis The pandemic-led supply chain/logistics disruption resulted in silicon delays (digital, analog, mixed and discrete), premature or forced end-of-life for components and higher procurement cost, leading to a loss of revenue and market share for products. The losses to silicon chip shortages were staggering, vis-a-vis lost production, time and market

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Leverage the power of Custom SoCs with Quest Global

With product cycles shrinking globally, designing a System on Chip (SoC) is key to differentiating consumer products and experiences with chip-based features. Hence, a steady increase in the number of large companies (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Tesla) designing their own chipsets. The most notable include Apple’s M1 Processor, which now resides on the latest

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Choosing the right LCNC platform: Insights and Best Practices

Today, Low Code-No Code (LCNC) platforms are getting a lot of attention. Many new players are stepping into the market day by day. One can easily get confused about which one to consider for their specific needs. All these platforms differ, not only in terms of features and functionality, but also in their level of

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My 17 year Born to Engineer Journey with QuEST

The ups, downs and everything in-between – Karthikeyan Munusamy   My journey at QuEST started after I completed my studies from Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai in the year 1997. As a young engineer, all that mattered to me was to make my mark in the industry. I first started as a shift engineer in

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Streamlining DevOps: A Building Block for Organizational Success

While DevOps has become a ubiquitous practice, optimizing and streamlining DevOps processes remains a challenge. Quest Global has been helping customers overcome inherent technical inefficiencies, siloed workflows or lack of standardization of tool sets and in effect, streamline their DevOps processes successfully. Considered to be one of the key accelerators for driving rapid technological advancements,

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Enabling Automotive OEMs Validate Vehicle Infotainment Systems

Modern in-vehicle infotainment systems connect with smart automotive technologies like ADAS systems, V2X connectivity solutions, telematics devices, smartphones, sensors etc., and integrate them with each other to provide a great driving experience. A typical high-end infotainment integrated system contains several thousands of features and the exponential combinatorial sequences that these features throw up along with

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Future Trends in Data Warehousing

Data warehousing as a concept had its origins in the 1980s when organizations started building warehousing solutions for business data. A data warehouse is a centralized storage and processing system for organizational data coming from a multiple sources. They enable organizations to make more informed decisions about business through data collection, consolidation, analytics and research.

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QuEST: Your ADAS Solution Partner

The article talks about the ADAS service provided by QuEST to its customers that helps them save cost and reduce time to market. Background Regarded as the bridge between traditional cars and the cars of tomorrow, ADAS as a technology is enabling vehicles to perform more and more tasks intuitively and independently. According to a

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Hi-Tech

Connect With Us Hi-Tech Arguably, innovative technologies have been the driving force in transforming human lives beyond imagination. Unprecedented and radical technology disruptions continue to push the boundaries of human imagination every single day. As a trusted thinking partner for all digital transformation needs, we provide services and solutions that are driven by an approach

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CES 2022

Meet Us at CES 2022 Hi-Tech Healthcare & Medical Devices Automotive At the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES), QuEST will be joining some of the biggest brands and the sharpest innovators from across the globe to showcase our spectrum of solutions in Hi-Tech, Healthcare and Medical Devices and Automotive. QuEST has been at the forefront

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Connected Vehicle: The Next Frontier In Digitalization

Just as phones are no longer limited to calling, cars are no longer just a mode of transportation. Along with the maturity of technologies like Electric vehicles, Internet of Things, 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Telematics, and Cloud – connected cars have evolved to become a reality in the last few years. They will play a central

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Redefining Supply Chain and Logistics with AI

Successful management of the supply chain is an important factor which gives a competitive edge to any company. An efficient, optimized and well managed supply chain leads to cost reduction, faster production cycle and fulfillment of customer orders. Considering the fact that the supply chain is made up of many interconnected and important blocks like

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Complete Product Development of Digital Instrument Cluster

By leveraging our expertise in automotive systems for design & development, we developed a Digital Instrument Cluster that helped our customers introduce next-generation systems to market ahead of their competitors. Learn how

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Offshoring compliance engineering indispensable strategy

Product engineering is a challenging business. It is driven by very high volume and low margin just like businesses in all other segments like oil and gas, paper and pulp, medical, mining, marine, power, energy, or cement. Most of the sales of a new product happen during the first three months of its introduction. Customers

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Should cost analysis – a key tool for sourcing and product designers

Most companies look for improving product value and increase profit margins focusing on ‘cost out’ opportunities using Strategic sourcing, Function analysis, Value analysis, Value engineering, TRIZ, Tear down, Benchmarking etc. These have become vital elements of any discipline to analyse and reduce cost as customers are forced to develop products with stringent cost targets. This

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Innovation in engineering services outsourcing the need, challenges and way forward

This paper gives an overview of the need for innovation in Engineering Service Outsourcing (ESO) companies, the challenges faced and the way forward. Starting with a background of the outsourcing landscape, the evolving needs of the market/customers are detailed. A comparison of engineering services with the IT/BPO industry helps us draw parallels between drivers of

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Should-cost challenges demystified – a must read for effective cost-management in organizations

Customers today demand products to be developed with shorter lead time to market, higher quality and reliability, faster delivery and service, and affordable price whilst adhering to stringent design requirements. Companies that are being forced to meet these challenges, mostly focus on meeting the design requirements. In the process cost gets side-lined.This paper will help

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Engineering processes ecosystem in an ESO

The need for robust processes in Service Organizations need not be debated. In a servicesecosystem, operating processes differentiate a greatorganization from a good organization.At QuEST Global, a study of the portfolio of our strategiccustomers provides evidence of high quality processesand practices being implemented in their business. Eachone of these is an industry leader and all

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Semiconductor Industry: Riding the Industry Cycle with QuEST

During industry downturns, most OEMs are forced to cut down on R&D spend and lay off part of their workforce to sustain the cost. Once the industry recovers, these companies find themselves in a situation where they do not have cutting edge products to take to the market. They also suffer from a damaged reputation

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Positioning of Engineering and Manufacturing Suppliers in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Manufacturing is the process of converting raw materials, components, or parts into finished goods that meet a customer’s expectations. In fact, it is the most tangible part of the product lifecycle because it results in a clear outcome – the “PRODUCT”. Manufacturing has gone through several stages of evolution – starting with artisans creating products one at

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Reimagine, Adapt and Reinvent: Digital Healthcare for the Post-COVID World

COVID-19 has presented a humanitarian crisis like no other, with more than seven million infected by the virus and 400 thousand lives lost. The healthcare industry is challenged as never before to re-imagine designs of mission critical devices, dramatically ramp up production capacity, and get essential equipment such as ventilators and personal protective equipment quickly

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Responding with Agility to the Changing Business Landscape

Necessity is the mother of all inventions or in today’s context ‘Necessity is the mother of all transformations’. Here we are fighting a pandemic with lockdowns around the world, and still enabling business continuity and resilience by adapting to all the near term needs. Organizations are realigning their strategies to stay relevant and productive, including

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Embedded DevOps – Addressing Pressing Challenges in Digital Adoption

In an increasingly connected world, technology cannot be a standalone player. Gartner study predicts that by 2021, the number of wireless connected devices in the world will grow to 25 billion. Making them operable and intelligent will need active embedded DevOps. While products and services are two separate domains, the new digital economies and consumer

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Enabling Aircraft OEMs to Deliver Top-quality Products Faster

Recent reports from leading aircraft manufacturers indicate that aircraft fleet size around the world will double in the next two decades. The demand for new aircraft, including replacements, will be more than double during this period. OEMs in this industry are facing order backlog, and are working to overcome the challenges for on-time delivery while

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IoT in Action: Discover New Business Opportunities with IoT

A team of experts from QuEST Global, an engineering services provider, participated in IoT in Action, a flagship event series by Microsoft. QuEST showcased its AI-driven vision analytics platform, ThirdEye, a comprehensive artificial intelligence-powered platform that leverages image analytics on the edge/cloud. With the ThirdEye platform, QuEST enables customers to maximize the advantages offered by

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Cockpit to Corporate – Lessons on People Leadership

Today, the business world is strife with cut-throat competition and a “grow or perish” environment. Therefore in business too, WAR-like strategy, planning, and execution are pivotal. From the strategy for gaining customers and growing, to winning the war for talent, to retention of talent and keeping them engaged through various measures. Many lessons can be learned

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How to Strategically Manage Nonconformances for Timely Product Delivery?

Engineering organizations have multiple challenges to deliver quality products on time, with quality concerns before, during, and even after production being high. OEMs which cannot achieve targeted shipments, have to face piling work-in-progress inventory, upset customers, and stressed employees. When a product or process fails to meet the desired specifications, quality management standards call for

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Top 5 Capabilities That IoT Providers Can’t Do Without

Internet of Things (IoT) has been gaining lot of attention, speculation, discussions and even prediction off late. IoT as service has been growing steadily over the years 2015 and 2016 and is going to keep up the pace through 2020. A report by Gartner confirms that there will be a whopping 20.8 billion growth in

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AR Drives Field Service Improvements

Today, augmented reality (AR) helps with creating proof of concepts, identifying specific business challenges, developing and implementing solutions, and helping meet the technically advanced need of customers. AR is not just limited to Pokemon Go anymore, it is not just helping enterprises with costly maintenance and repair work or with more B2C projects alone, it

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Big Data Analytics – To Deliver Higher Aerospace Safety, Better Performance And Customer Experience

Why is Unscheduled Maintenance High in Aviation? Aircraft and aero engines are complex equipment and are getting sophisticated day by day. More complex the equipment higher is the failure rate and this holds true for electronic systems using latest emerging technologies. Another factor for high number of failures is early release of non-safety critical electronic

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Deep Learning And the Future of Business

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most controversial domains in the genre of computer science, since it was first proposed in the year 1950. Defined as a part of computer science, and concerned with designing systems, it exhibits the characteristics associated with human intelligence. In fact to be precise, AI has transformed machines into

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Vision Analytics: How Computer Vision Can Become a Game Changer for your Business

Recent reports from Tractica, a market intelligence firm, revealed that the market revenue from actual and predicted computer vision hardware and software will witness new heights in 2022. Computer vision refers to replicating human perception and associated brain functions to acquire, analyse, process and understand an image/video. This process of isolating an image/visual/video and then

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Omnichannel Conversation Platforms: The Future of Work

The legend that robots would one day replace human workers just became real. A Canadian company has managed to automate its management and administrative processes to such an extent that it does not have an HR department at all. A 700-member company, it has deployed an automation system that tracks things like billable hours, workflow

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The Digital Transformation Dilemma – In the Industrial World

More than 80% of business leaders responding to a Gartner survey expect their company to become a digital enterprise by 2019. To be a true digital enterprise, it requires more than a few technologies, what is really needed is the aspiration to evolve and adopt newer leaner ways to operate, proven and agile business models,

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The QuEST to Assure End-to-end Deliveries

Think you are right in the middle of an enthralling match, over the weekend and dinner is not delivered on-time! A critical and unsatisfactory situation right? A similar situation occurs when your service provider lacks quality and delivery assurance service. We have a problem not because we didn’t have a solution, but because we didn’t

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IoT: Setting the Pace of Progress in Aerospace

A recent survey by a leading global consultancy firm estimated that, of 1,400 global business leaders, 84 % confidently asserted that they could create new income streams from the IIoT. However, 73% still do not have any concrete plans to do so and are trying to develop a comprehensive strategy. A universe of intelligent products,

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How to Decode the Producibility Conundrum with a Center of Excellence?

In the early 1900s, the world had just started moving horizontally in Ford cars made on the assembly line. Notwithstanding the existing technological constraints, the Wright brothers had designed and manufactured a disruptive innovation that literally had them up in the air. Within not even the next two decades itself, airplanes were designed and manufactured

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Augmented Reality (AR): The Future of Vehicle Infotainment

Augmented reality (AR) is increasingly drawing the attention of the automotive engineering community around the world. A study has found that the automotive AR market will grow steadily at a compound annual growth rate of almost 18 percent by 2020.  So what is Augmented Reality? Fundamentally, Augmented Reality is live view of our surroundings augmented

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5 Key Emerging Trends in the HMI Automotive Market

The in-car Human Machine Interface (HMI) is an evocative confluence of design excellence and compelling customer experiences. Mobile millennials are unwilling to let go of ‘connectivity’ during their mundane commute, demanding seamless and omnipresent connections between the machine and their worlds. Car ownership patterns have also undergone a drastic change. The ‘uberization’ of transport and

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Why Aerospace OEMs need Suppliers to Deliver Integrated Engineering Solutions (IES)?

In recent years, the aerospace industry has witnessed increased orders in the Civil sector, fuelled by a growing demand for air travel and a return to growth in the Defence sector.  Advanced wide-body platforms such as the A350 and Boeing 787 are already in production, whilst the 777x and the A330 neo are nearing entry

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Embedded Industry’s Evolving Role in the Digital Age

The value of the embedded systems market is expected to grow at a CAGR of above 6% between 2016 and 2021, generating estimated revenue of USD 225.34 billion by the end of 2021.[1] The figures clearly underline the increasing value of embedded systems in our rapidly digitizing world. Embedded systems are a big and essential

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Manufacturing the Digital way

Manufacturing the digital way: A commentary on key technologies shaping the industry 47% of manufacturing organizations are already embracing digital transformations, as per a recent survey by Fujitsu[1]. This transformation is changing the way modern factories look and operate. By embracing this transformation, manufacturers are able to improve productivity in their own plants, stack up

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Industry 4.0 is here

The next wave of manufacturing is upon us, and it is changing the way our factories and people do business. Industry 4.0, the 4th industrial revolution, channelizes the power of automation, data and analytics to enable machines to be the real decision-makers. Also known as ‘smart manufacturing’, Industry 4.0 is not as much about smart

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How IoT keeps Aero Engines Running Healthy?

IoT: Automating Engine Degradation Diagnostics, Optimizing MRO The duration for which an engine stays grounded depends on the need for maintenance and repair of the engine. Higher the wear and tear, greater is the need for maintenance, longer is the time it stays grounded, bigger is the revenue loss. The question is — how can

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Digitalize to Optimize Process, Product, and Revenue

The aerospace and defense sector is undergoing a massive shift. Aging fleets and rising demand for air travel is boosting the demand side. On the supply side, OEMs are continually innovating on the technology front to optimize their operations to improve efficiency, remain competitive, enhance profitability, and generate more value for their customers. As a

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Self-learning and Interactive Systems will make in-Vehicle Infotainment more Effective

Rapid digitalization and advanced analytics are driving changes in the automotive industry. Tech-savvy millennials; anytime, anywhere connectivity; provision for in-vehicle Wi-Fi; and demand for entertainment on the move are prompting carmakers to integrate advanced infotainment in cars. According to the PWC forecast, the market for connected technologies for vehicles will triple by 2021 to reach

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How to build and Scale Centers of Excellence (CoE)?

Your business is improving. Your business processes have been perfected. You have the right people and your tools are in their rightful places. There exists a culture of continuous improvements that has given rise to a series of best practices at all levels. Your customers are happy with the results. There is no better time

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Is the market Ready for fully Autonomous Vehicles?

Autonomous vehicles are already in use in industrial fleets, in highly controlled environments. When it comes to consumer vehicles, the ground is still getting ready. From automakers to technology giants, 19 companies are working to launch autonomous or driverless cars on the road by 2020.1 According to a study published by McKinsey, adoption of autonomous

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Moving towards Model Based Enterprise

Moving towards Model Based Enterprise Today, even as organizations strive to improve operational efficiency by lowering cost and improving time-to-market, customers have become more demanding in terms of precision, quality, and agility.  In this backdrop, businesses across verticals have gone back to the quintessential drawing board for answers. The principal challenge is encapsulated in the

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Strategic Outsourcing for Greater Benefits

Since 2011, the US military budget has been shrinking. At the same time, the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) sector witnessed a surge in global passenger traffic and demand for new aircraft due to environmental concerns.1 This led to an increase in demand for the commercial aviation sector. In the next 20 years, the demand across

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Leveraging Local-Global Delivery Model to Optimize Value

According to a survey conducted by KPMG, 41 percent of the 76 Aerospace and Defense (A&D) senior executives say growth is of extremely high priority. However, they also indicate that cost and performance management is a big concern. According to Doug Gates, KPMG International Global Chair, Industrial Manufacturing and Global Lead, A&D, “A&D organizations will

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Evolution of Medical Device Software development – Experience of an Engineering Service Partner

Last decade witnessed a phenomenal growth in the medical device industry with an average annual growth of 5%. Changes in power equations due to governmental involvement like OBAMA care, heightened regulatory scrutiny, ever increasing rate of innovation, new healthcare delivery models and the emergence of emerging markets. QuEST has been supporting medical device firms for

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Non-Conformance Management to Ensure on Time Product Delivery

Engineering organizations have multiple challenges to deliver quality products on time, with quality concerns before, during, and even after production being high. Most OEMs attribute shipment delays to production non-conformances. Companies that do not achieve targeted shipments see piling work-in-progress inventory, upset customer, and stressed employees. When a product or process fails to meet the

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How to Effortlessly Manage your Engineering Services Supply Base by Reducing Efforts and Cost?

Stay Competitive – Improve Your Profitability If you are a large engineering or a manufacturing company or an OEM, and if you are increasingly outsourcing your engineering activities, managing the costs associated with your supply base is critical to stay competitive and improve your profits. Following are couple of ways to do so: 1. Reduce

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Repair Engineering – Meeting the needs of in-Service Fight

Smooth and efficient functioning of airlines is governed by the commercial aero engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) function. The MRO market is estimated to reach $32.1 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 4.6% over the next eight years. Technological advancements for lower emissions and less maintenance; use of advanced materials; growing prevalence

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Service Management – Benefits and Success Factors

An established Service Management framework lays emphasis on value creation for the customer, delivering strategic value to the business, providing definition for the business value of a service and will certainly have the customer’s influence on the framework. Following are some of the key benefits to customers when an engineering service provider operates on the

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QuEST Ingenium – Igniting the Passion for Engineering

At QuEST our tagline “Born to Engineer” wraps up very nicely who we are, what we do and our approach to conducting business. We have customers, colleagues who join us, others who may have left us, play back to us that this is indeed a very unique aspect about QuEST. An engineering approach to most

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Six Sure ways to win in Emerging Markets

Multiple aspects collude together to ensure success when trying for a product or service break through in emerging markets. Here are six sure ways to understand and realize the fruits of your glocalization efforts: Know your Customers Emerging markets can be typically segmented into four: • Global customers: Customers who go for global brands and

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Top 3 factors to ponder before deciding to ‘Glocalize’

As we ponder over the evolution of the global market place, global products and brands trying to tap into emerging markets had their eyes on targeted customers in a couple of selected segments. These customers were aspiring to buy global products in local markets, willing to pay the price at par with the global markets.

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Moving up the Value Chain through Innovation

ESO companies can take the following steps to grow up the value chain through innovation. LEAN/Six Sigma Most companies start their journey on process improvements through LEAN/Six-Sigma. This is a time tested method and has been adopted across all sectors. At QuEST, we started the journey in 2006-07. The Six-Sigma concept brought rigor in terms

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Top Three Challenges to Innovation and Solutions

There are several challenges faced by the ESO companies while attempting innovation. Challenge: Intellectual Property – Most of the work done by ESO’s is done directly for their customers on their products. Thus by default, they do not own the product. Any innovation that emerges as a result of the work carried out belongs to

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Productivity Improvement

The emergence of competition (resulting in lower bill rates) as well as rising operational costs (wage, infrastructure, overheads) have put tremendous pressure on the margins of ESO companies. A popular method to retain/improve margins as well as to beat the competition is to improve productivity. Productivity initiatives are driven to reduce time taken to complete

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Innovation in Product vs Service Organizations

Innovation happens when an idea is implemented to create an impact. It has three elements: idea, implementation and impact. The impact is typically measured as either cost saving or an increase in revenue – both resulting in higher profits. Innovation in product companies (or OEM) is well understood and practiced. They have well established processes,

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Emerging trends in Engineering Services in India

The engineering services industry has evolved over the last 20 years in India. Currently there are approximately 6000 engineering services organizations in the country. Over this period, customer expectations and service offerings from suppliers have changed. After the success of IT outsourcing success, we saw many companies starting outsourcing their engineering efforts for various reasons:

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