Escorts Limited and Cognizant – two huge names in the Indian engineering industry have joined hands to improve the technology and move forward towards the company’s goal of delivering path-breaking products, instil growth and a heart-warming customer experience. Escort will take part in this multi-million dollar partnership, which will span for a number of years will spread across all businesses of Escort, which includes material handling, agri-machinery, auto components and railway equipment.
Cognizant will facilitate Escorts to boost the collaboration and control across by facilitating mobile-enabling of its manpower and combining a number of its systems, which are commonly used by its customers, sales partners and vendors. This will also help Escorts to improve the quality of its products and offer a range of value-added services and products, which can be configured and customised. Cognizant will establish a Transformation Office, which will help Escorts get accustomed to the demand-based manufacturing technique and adaptive production lines. Development will also be sought in such areas like machine-to-machine communication, telematics, analytics, cloud and mobility.
Escorts will also be able to align its business and manufacturing strategies in a better and systematic way, leading to its expansion. Escorts will also be able to practise remote product diagnostics and monitoring, remote product monitoring and connected worksites. Real-time data analytics will be easier and sourcing will be done from a number of sources for a better productivity, decision-making and a deeper customer insight.
