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BANGALORE,
INDIA, Nov. 25, 2005 – QuEST, a leading global product
development solutions provider, today announced their plans
to strengthen the relationship with Rolls-Royce plc.
QuEST will provide Rolls-Royce with a range of solutions in
engineering design and development. QuEST engineers will do
system and component design, modelling, stress analysis,
performance engineering, service engineering,
instrumentation engineering, manufacturing engineering,
technical publishing, repair design and ground support
equipment design across different product categories of
Rolls-Royce.
“India is a country which today represents a significant
market as well as a reputed source for engineering and
manufacturing in addition to IT. We selected QuEST as our
partner of choice to provide engineering services, as they
are a purely engineering focused solutions provider with
their demonstrated capabilities in engineering technologies
and for their ability to evolve with time and meet our
growing requirements” said Sir John Rose, Chief Executive of
Rolls-Royce plc, in a statement released to the press.
“We are indeed delighted and honoured to have been selected
by Rolls-Royce, a company renowned for the quality of their
products and services world wide”, said Ajit Prabhu, CEO of
QuEST. “This is an endorsement of our leadership in the
outsourced engineering solutions space, our strength in
aerospace engineering domain, and our wealth of knowledge in
turbo machinery and structures, makes us a natural partner
of choice for world-reputed global majors like Rolls-Royce.”
From a small but not insignificant start in Oct ‘03, when
QuEST initiated the execution of a pilot project for
Rolls-Royce, a team of about 100 engineers has been built by
the company till now. This team of dedicated engineers has
been supporting product development activities for
Rolls-Royce Defence Aerospace working on a wide range of
engines.
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce has more than 1000 aero engines in service in
India. The company’s global market sectors – civil
aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy are all
represented in the country.
QuEST
QuEST, a Carlyle-funded global engineering solutions
provider, employs nearly 800 engineers across US, UK, Italy,
Japan, China and India. Founded in 1997, the company is a
pioneer in engineering outsourcing with estimated revenues
of $28m for FY 2005-06. QuEST is a pure play engineering
firm with expertise ranging from concept design to product
realization solutions in the following domains: aerospace,
automotive, energy and industrial. QuEST serves many Fortune
500 companies, and Six Sigma and ISO are some of the
approaches QuEST employs to provide clients quality
solutions at optimal cost. Also visit www.quest-global.com
for further information. |
