Pune | March 5, 2018 : KPIT Technologies (BSE: 532400; NSE: KPIT), a global technology company specializing in IT consulting and product engineering, today announced that it won multiple awards at the Dassault Systèmes 2018 Value Solutions Sales Convention Americas, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
KPIT was awarded ‘Key Team Win of the Year’ for work on behalf of its client, Soucy Group, a Canada based manufacturer and supplier of components for recreational, industrial, agricultural and defence vehicles. Soucy is implementing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) as a first step towards realization of its smart manufacturing vision.
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KPIT was partner of choice for implementing Dassault Delmia Apriso to improve productivity, genealogy, traceability, and quality on the manufacturing floor. Vinayak Kelkar, Digital Manufacturing Lead for North America at KPIT, along with Soufiane Ben-Tekaya, Director of Sales at Dassault Systèmes, and Satish Kumar, Head of Delivery and Smart Manufacturing at KPIT, received the award.
Vinayak Kelkar, was conferred with the ‘Dassault North America Rookie of the Year’ award for his stellar performance in the Apriso Practice. KPIT is one of the key Deployment Partners of Dassault Delmia Apriso, which plays an important role in KPIT's Digital Manufacturing services helping clients to transform their manufacturing value chain.
 
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Figure 1: Soufiane Ben-Tekaya (second from right), Satish Kumar (third from right) receiving the Dassault ‘Key Team Win of the Year’ award
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Figure 2: Vinayak Kelkar (middle) receiving the Dassault ‘Rookie of the Year’ award 2018
 
Probodh Chiplunkar, Head of Digital Business at KPIT said, "We are delighted to receive this recognition from Dassault. We focus on providing tangible value to manufacturing customers with our Industry 4.0 solutions and technologies that enable transformation across the manufacturing value chain. The team has done a fantastic job in translating our vision for smart manufacturing and Industrial IoT to the customers. I congratulate all the team members for the recognition and thank Dassault for believing in us and our capabilities."
Stephan Soucy, CTO at Soucy Group said, "We have created a roadmap for adoption of Industry 4.0 which will bring real-time insights from all of our manufacturing plants. The first step is to implement MES system and after evaluating multiple MES software, we selected Dassault Delmia Apriso with KPIT as our partner. We chose KPIT because of their extensive experience in implementing MES systems, especially Apriso, and their overall smart manufacturing capabilities and solutions."
About KPIT Technologies Ltd.
KPIT (BSE: 532400, NSE: KPIT) is a global technology company specializing in providing IT Consulting and Product Engineering solutions and services to Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities and LifeSciences companies. Together with its customers and partners, it creates and delivers technologies to enable creating a cleaner, greener and more intelligent world that is sustainable and efficient.