ZF India's state of the art India Technology Centre (ITC), successfully completed one year.
ZF's first technology center in India is an essential building block of the company's digitalization strategy. Deeply integrated with the 20 main development centers of ZF worldwide, the India technology center plays a critical support role in the area of electronics, embedded software and mechanical engineering. It is focusing on software that would amount to 70% of the R&D work and is playing a pivotal role in the development of the autonomous-vehicle technology. The ITC also aims to leverage the finest talent in the country for global development projects.
In the last one year, the ITC has effectively established its systems and processes for consistent delivery of packages in line with ZF global standards. The ITC is all ramped up to support customer programs and has also got optimistic feedback from its corporate audit team and data security team for its standard operating procedures. Currently, ZF has more than 1,000 engineers working on development projects from India through its service partners and employees. In the last one year, it has successfully added around 400 talented engineers to its workforce at ITC. More than 50% of the engineers working at the ITC have come from global multinational companies and 30% of them are postgraduates. More than 80% of ITC engineers have four plus years of work experience. ZF ITC plans to hire another 1,100 people by 2020.
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