{"id":17375,"date":"2026-05-20T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/17375\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:35:14","slug":"ai-helping-indias-engineering-hubs-generate-ip-faster-daimler-truck-exec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/17375\/","title":{"rendered":"AI helping India’s engineering hubs generate IP faster, Daimler Truck exec says"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI is enabling Indian engineering hubs<\/a> of global firms to quicken intellectual property generation<\/a> and mitigate supply chain risks, a Daimler Truck executive said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

India has long been a base for technology support and back-office functions for global companies, but firms are increasingly \u200crelying on local \u2060engineering \u2060hubs to assist in product innovation.<\/p>\n

“The contribution of Indian GCCs on IP is in general increasing,” Radhakrishnan Kodakkal, newly-appointed head of Daimler Truck Innovation<\/a> Center India, told Reuters, adding that AI would further speed up innovation and engineering work.<\/p>\n

He said the trend had begun before the recent surge in AI \u200badoption but was likely to accelerate further \u2060as companies increasingly \u200cdeploy the technology in engineering and product innovation.<\/p>\n

Manufacturers \u200bworldwide have \u200bfaced mounting pressure since the pandemic as shifting trade \u2060policies, tariffs, and geopolitical tensions have forced companies to \u200brethink sourcing strategies and restructure supplier networks.<\/p>\n

Kodakkal, who was previously at Whirlpool<\/a> and Philips, cited copper sourcing in wiring harnesses as one example where manufacturers are now tracking material composition more closely under changing tariff structures.<\/p>\n

“One example I could say is predicting the raw material cost,” Kodakkal said, adding that teams use AI \u200cand multivariate analysis to model movements in steel and other commodity prices.<\/p>\n

Changing hiring landscape<\/p>\n

Daimler Truck’s center in Bengaluru, \u200bwhich works across \u200bthe full vehicle \u2060lifecycle, including engineering concepts, simulations, software, connectivity, and analytics, is partnering with universities and training recruits internally to find “the right talent,” the executive said.<\/p>\n

The \u200badvent of AI and India’s growing shift from a technology support base to a product innovation hub is intensifying competition for specialised talent.<\/p>\n

Kodakkal said there was “a lot of need around niche talents” in areas such as AI, cybersecurity and digital technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI is enabling Indian engineering hubs of global firms to quicken intellectual property generation and mitigate supply chain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21157],"tags":[21174,3427,21177,21178,21175,21176,21179],"class_list":["post-17375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-daimler-truck","tag-ai-in-engineering","tag-daimler-truck","tag-daimler-truck-innovation","tag-indian-engineering-hubs","tag-intellectual-property-generation","tag-supply-chain-mitigation","tag-whirlpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}