Amada Soft India, a subsidiary of Japanese machine tool conglomerate manufacturer, Amada is setting up a technical centre, including vocational training centre at Bangalore which will focus on research and development on machine tools components and software used in it. This is first Amada's first such facility in the South Asia region.
Amada has bought eight acres of land near Bangalore International Airport and will train about 70 to 80 employees in Bangalore and about 140 across India. The centre will also be involved in training of Amada’s own employees working in India.
Speaking to Financial Chronicle, Amada, president and CEO, Mitsuo Okamoto, said, the investment shows our commitment to India and he hopes the Indian market to be stable in next few years. Amada has manufacturing facility in Europe, US, Japan and China. A mini version of the technical centre is already running in Whitefield Bangalore.
Earlier speaking to Financial Chronicle, Amada, senior managing director, Toshio Takagi, said, “The technical centre will also act as the real interface between the company and Indian customers”. He added the centre would try to understand the real Indian clients’ voice.
Amada will invest about $13 million for the centre. The company’s focus in Indian market is computer numeric control (CNC) machines. These are cnc bending machines, cnc laser cutting machines and cnc punching machines. Amada has an offshore software development centre at Chennai.
The software centre caters to Amada’s global software needs. In 2004, it shifted its software development centre to Chennai from its headquarters in Kanagawa, near Tokyo. The software development centre has about 130 employees. Takagi, said, “We are also planning to venture into open technology so as to smooth the integration between our system and customers’ legacy systems”.
Company officials said, Amada’s revenue from Indian market is about Rs 250 crore. Amada is also planning to diversify its market to aerospace and airports by catering to their requirements of sheet metals.
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