“TCS works with leading manufacturers globally, helping them scale up product innovation and pursue their growth and transformation initiatives,” said Regu Ayyaswamy, Global Head, IoT & Engineering Services, TCS. “This partnership with Critical Manufacturing adds to our expanding range of industrial internet of things (IIoT) and MES solutions that help our customers scale-up and future-proof their global manufacturing operations.”

TCS offers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions to help manufacturers build smart, future-ready operations. The partnership with Critical Manufacturing focuses on go to market, consulting services and aftermarket support offerings. TCS will customize, deploy and maintain these solutions for its customers across the world, leveraging its deep contextual knowledge of their operations, and its global capabilities.

“We are pleased to announce the TCS partnership,” said Francisco Almada Lobo, CEO at Critical Manufacturing. “As our modern MES platform is getting significant traction, we need to supplement our teams with partners having worldwide presence and a strong MES implementation practice. TCS’s strong capabilities in both consulting and implementation services, along with a significant aftermarket offering, is ideal.”

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)

TATA Consultancy Services Limited is the biggest Indian multinational information technology service and consulting company, and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries.

Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group is a global enterprise, headquartered in India, comprising 30 companies across 10 clusters. The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with a mission ‚To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long-term stakeholder value creation based on Leadership with Trust’.

Tata Sons is the principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. Sixty-six percent of the equity share capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts, which support education, health, livelihood generation and art and culture. In 2018-19, the revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $113.0 billion (INR 792,710 crore).

These companies collectively employ over 720,000 people. Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors. There are 28 publicly-listed Tata enterprises with a combined market capitalization of over $160 billion as on March 31, 2019.

Companies include Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals, Tata Consumer Products, Titan, Tata Capital, Tata Power, Tata Advanced Systems, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications.

For more information on Tata Consultancy Services, please visit www.tcs.com.