Ruwel Acquires NCS in India

Ruwel GmbH, said to be Germany's biggest producer of printed circuit boards for the world's electronics industry, has announced that it has taken over 80 percent of the shares in Naavinya CAD Soft Ltd (NCS), Bangalore, India. A buyer's option on the remaining 20 percent has also been agreed.
NCS employs highly qualified engineers in the CAD/CAM field who take over, check and process customer PCB data in readiness for production.

Ruwel said it has been cooperating very successfully with NCS for four years now. Due to generally shorter product life cycles and an increasing variety of types, the average number of pieces per circuit board has been declining steadily in recent years and this trend is expected to continue. Batch sizes are diminishing, while the variety of types is on the increase. That means considerably more work on the technical preparation side.

According to the company, qualified engineers are currently in short supply in Germany. Furthermore, medium-sized companies from rural areas, like Ruwel, have to compete for next-generation engineers with major international corporations from the big cities. For that reason Ruwel decided to handle the growing additional need for job scheduling by way of their time-proven partner in India. All engineers there have more than two years' specific experience in circuit board layout and design. Each of the new Indian colleagues will receive a three months' training in the company's specialities at Ruwel.

Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, a federal state with a population of 56 million, and an acknowledged high-tech centre in India. Research laboratories of major corporations such as Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Philips and SAP are in Bangalore. With a population of six million, the town is one of India's globalization centres, and domestic software giants like Wipro and Infosys have their corporate head-quarters there. Ruwel is planning to expand its activities rapidly in India.

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