Incap revs up India design unit

Contract manufacturer Incap plans to extend its design operations in India, aiming to double its current has design team of 15 people by 2010. Their qualified, experienced designers in Bangalore also serve European and U.S. customers. Typical customer products designed in India are UPS products, inverters and power supplies.

Sami Mykkänen, the president and CEO of Incap Group: "The need for design services continues to increase. In India especially, many new customer accounts have been established through design projects. It is important in view of our customers' competitiveness that manufacturing cost can be reduced constantly. With this in mind, we also provide increasingly value engineering and product re-design services in order to cut down costs and reduce production turnaround times."

While actual product design operations are focused in India, all of Incap's plants will continue to provide product manufacturability design services. It is important, especially in the manufacture of mechanics and product packages, that design expertise is available in production for improving the manufacturability of products at the prototype and ramp-up stage.

Design services are a key part of Incap's service offering. In addition to actual contract manufacturing, Incap provides its customers with production-related manufacturability design, electronics, software and mechanics design, and testing design services.