China to Source Engineering Design Services from Ranal

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, September 27, 2006 -- (Business Wire India)

Ranal Engineering Services, one of the leading and niche engineering design service providers and part of the US based Ranal group, is establishing its foothold in the Chinese market in the engineering services domain.

Ranal Engineering offers end-to-end product design, analysis and manufacturing engineering services including modeling, detailing, analysis, prototyping, simulation and validation for diverse industries such as automotive, aerospace and other segments. The service offerings are across the entire engineering services value chain with delivery models that support simple project execution to turnkey outsourcing.

The company has a strong presence in the US and Europe and is entering the Chinese market, as China has a large automotive manufacturing base and is likely to emerge as a key player in years to come.

Says Mr. Ramesh Chandra, Managing Director, Ranal, India Operations, “The automotive industry, especially in the US and Europe is facing tremendous competitive pressures - rising labor costs, shorter product cycles and manufacturing issues, forcing the auto makers to explore outsourcing and off shoring options in emerging markets like India and China. We see huge opportunities in this segment in providing the complete range of solutions spanning design engineering and manufacturing engineering”.

Ranal’s advantage lies in its core strength of delivering quality engineering services to global clients at great value using diverse technologies, products and tools. The customers have benefited from enhanced product innovation, reduced time to market, lower product development costs and improved manufacturing efficiency thereby gaining strategic competitive advantages.

Ranal’s more than a decade experience in the engineering services industry coupled with in-depth domain knowledge and global delivery models has landed the company with multiple large projects in China. “Leveraging our strong position in engineering design services, we are planning to widen our base in the APAC region with our presence in China market. We aim to establish a strong foothold in China and have started working for clients who have set up manufacturing operations in China, with whom we already share a working relationship globally.” said Mr. Ramesh Chandra.

About Ranal Engineering Services:

Ranal is a global outsourcing partner for engineering design services for automotive, aerospace and other industries. The portfolio of services cover a wide spectrum of offerings in design and manufacturing engineering using diverse technologies, products and tools. The Design centers in USA (Michigan) and India (Bangalore and Pune) exploit time zone differences cutting design and development lead-times resulting in faster turn-around for customers. With ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 27001:2005 certifications for India, accreditations from ANSI - RAB for United States and UKAS for Europe, the right processes and unique outsourcing model ensure cost effective quality and time bound services required for our customers to succeed in their manufacturing and product launch programs. (www.ranal.com/engineering.htm)

About Ranal Group:

Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, the Ranal Group caters to worldwide client needs through focused competency centers based out of the United States, Canada, Europe and India. The group is backed by decades of experience in technology areas such as CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM, Robotics and off-line programming, Manufacturing Process Planning and Management, Program/Project management, Digital Manufacturing and cPLM (specifically applicable to Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Engineering and Research & Development organizations).

Ranal has over 600 clients from Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Engineering and other Industries and some of the clients include ABB, General Motors (GM), Techspace Aero, Gulfstream, Motoman, Renault and many other leading global players. . (www.ranal.com)