Wipro has launched a well-equipped testing facility called
Tarang (Sanskrit word for wave) for Indian as well as global
OEMs and developers. This looks to be the most updated testing
facility in India with range of test services for products
covering from cars to semiconductor devices.
India's well-known scientist and former President A P J
Abdul Kalam inaugurated Wipro's Tarang facility. He shared
his bit of product testing and development experience during
his young times at ISRO and DRDO to the young and talented
engineers and scientists of Wipro and to the other invitees.
He also stressed the importance of test facility for a region
like India.
Wipro's Chairman Azim Premji said, investment in product
R&D is important for economies like India, and during
this period of world economy's transition it's even more
important.
To address the woefully inadequate product R&D infrastructure
situation in India, Wipro invested in to this new testing
facility. The total investment in this facility is around
8.5 million US$.
Girish Paranjpe, joint CEO, IT business, Wipro, said, this
facility is designed by keeping engineers in mind. The way
they design and the quality and approval issues they face
are key considerations in designing this facility. Wipro
is also providing a small consultancy team for tuning or
redesigning the system under test to get qualified faster.
Tarang facility will provide testing services in the area
of EMI/EMC, mechanical, thermal, acoustic, safety and reliability.
The applications covered include aerospace, automotive,
industrial, medical, telecom, computer, and consumer.
Indian companies covering government PSUs to small and
medium enterprises can benefit from this facility by availing
testing services locally instead of getting it done at offshore
places. The other such facility in India is Government owned
SAMEER-CEM at Chennai.
The equipments at Tarang support testing of complete products,
subsystems and also the semiconductor and electronic components.
On the semiconductor front, Wipro is already partnered with
Tessolve in providing testing services.
On the question of economy recovery Girish Paranjpe commented,
with some visibility of stability, few positive things are
expected in next quarter but he warns it may take time to
see the impressive growth.
With the technology getting outdated faster, keeping the
test equipment updated to latest technology and the new
emerging applications is the big challenge for test equipment
service providers. Particularly in RF systems, where the
frequency of operation is expected tp go beyond 40 GHz.
The test equipments got to be ready for such high microwave
frequecies. Even at product level, major market changes
throws a big challenge for testing. A petrol car emission
is so different from electric car.
