Mitsubishi, NeST set up development centre

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan (MELCO), the world leader in electrical and electronic equipments and NeST, a premier provider of specialised software and engineering services, have set up an exclusive development centre at Technopark here. The centre was inaugurated on Friday by Hiroyuki Morikane, Head, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Sanda Works, Japan. The exclusive development centre located at NeST Towers inside Technopark will cater to the increasing demand for complex software found in new generation cars. The centre, with an initial intake of services of 200 engineers, will develop advanced in-vehicle systems that MELCO supplies to the world’s leading car manufacturers.  “We have been working with NeST for over five years and are very impressed with the capability of its engineers and their commitment to quality and delivery. I’m indeed happy that an exclusive development centre for MELCO is being established within NeST,” Morikane San said. “The setting up of this exclusive development centre is a milestone in the relationship between NeST and MELCO. With software requirements for the transportation sector increasing day by day, NeST considers this relationship to be strategically important for its ambitious growth plans in engineering and software services,” said N Jehangir, vice-chairman and managing director, NeST Group. “With over 1,500 engineers in Technopark, working on cutting-edge technologies in VLSI, hardware design, software and algorithms development, NeST is a natural choice for developing complex audio, video and navigation systems for companies like MELCO. We are really excited by the development of this relationship,” said S Sasi Kumar, president of NeST Software. NeST Software (Network Systems & Technologies (P) Ltd) is a technology company which offers customised software and hardware development services for engineering applications and product development services for customers worldwide.  NeST Software is the software division (http://www.nestsoftware.com) of SFO Technologies and is part of the NeST Group of companies (www.nestgroup.net). With some of the world’s leading corporations as customers, NeST has business operations in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Sweden, the UK and the Middle East, apart from a notable presence in the domestic market.