FCI
Technology Services Ltd. was established in India, as a Private
Limited Company, in the year 2000, and was granted the status
of 100% Export oriented unit for its Chennai Division and Bangalore
Division under the Software Technology Park of India scheme. Now
converted into a limited company with registered office at Kochi,
Kerala, this company has been promoted by Framatome Connectors
International (FCI) France, the third largest connector manufacturing
company in the world, having production units in 18 countries.
Its activities are geared towards 4 major markets: Communications,
Data & Consumer (CDC), Automotive (AUT), Electrical Power
Interconnect (EPI) and Micro connections (MIC). FCI has its headquarters
in Paris-France and employs more than 12,500 people in Europe,
Asia and Americas.
The
Company has four directors on the board; namely, (1) Mr. P George
Varghese (Managing Director), (2) Mr. Thierry Lacarne, (3) Mr.
K V Sivadas, and (4) Mr. Bernard Brice.
Company has a paid up capital of Rs.110 million and the combined
turnover as on 31st December 2003 is Rs.116 million, in the
third year of operation.
FCI Technology Services Ltd has five Divisions in India providing
services to counterparts of FCI worldwide: Software division
in Bangalore, Karnataka State, Engineering Design Center in
Tamil Nadu State, Global Engineering Center at Cochin and Back
Office Support Services at Cochin, Tool and Die manufacturing
division at Cochin, Kerala State.
Information Technology Support Center at Bangalore
This center provides IT related services in ERP, Web applications,
Data Warehouse, Infrastructure Management and all related IT
applications to all the FCI sites world wide. The said center
is functioning at International Software Technology Park at
Bangalore and employs 78 people as on August 2004 and is in
continuous growth path to employ over 120 employees.
Engineering Design Center at Chennai
This center provides engineering design using CAD/ CAM software.
This center, originally catering to the automotivedivision of
FCI, is now servicing to other divisions of FCI also. It is
functioning at Tidel Park at Chennai and employs 26 people now
and is proposed to increase to 100 people in the near future.
Global Engineering Center at Cochin
This facility provides engineering support for the product and
tool design of FCI’s Automotive, CDC and EPI divisions.
Prototyping for CDC division of FCI Europe is also one of its
activities. The said center employs 12 people.
Back Office Support Division at Cochin
This activity is launched at Cochin to function as a long-term
cost effective and efficient business back office support center
that serves FCI CDC Global needs. The objective is to minimize
the business support overheads across FCI regions in Asia Pacific,
Europe and Americas. At present it has commenced the activity
with 10 business analysts who serve the Global Strategic Leaders
in FCI CDC.
Regional Tooling Center at Cochin
This center manufacture tools/moulds required for the production
of interconnection devices. Manufacture of tools/ moulds is
a high precision and technology oriented business for which
the company has been using high quality imported equipment.
The said center employs 139 people.
