Schmersal Group expands in India with another subsidiary for IT Engineering Services

By OEM Update Editorial February 9, 2022 6:11 pm IST

Swapnil Kulkarni was appointed as Managing Director, who was the Head of IT at Schmersal India earlier.

Schmersal Group, Germany offers its customers the largest range of safety switching appliances and systems worldwide for the protection of human life and machines. The Schmersal Group has had a presence in India for almost a decade now through its fully owned subsidiary, Schmersal India Pvt. Ltd. (SIPL) with a manufacturing plant at Ranjangaon MIDC, Pune, and EOU and R&D centre. Schmersal Group has now added one more feather to its cap with its new subsidiary Schmersal Global Competence Center Pvt. Ltd. (SGCC). As part of our global strategy, the goal was to set up a competence centre in Pune, India for IT, and Engineering services. The overall goal of SGCC is to support IT and Engineering projects of The Schmersal Group globally. 

SGCC started its operations from January 2022 and Swapnil Kulkarni has been appointed as the Managing Director who was the Head of IT at Schmersal India Pvt. Ltd., earlier. At present, SGCC offers IT and Engineering services to the Schmersal Group globally. The IT services consist of SAP, Infrastructure, Microsoft Technologies, and Custom Application Development. The Engineering Centre takes care of firmware, embedded and IIoT technologies to propel the Schmersal Group into a Digital age. 

SGCC is poised for growth and expansion with aggressive hiring in 2022 with the primary focus on providing top notch service within the Schmersal Group with an end goal to enter the Global IT Services Market as an Industry Leader.