Siemens Goa, India units innovates for the world
India research and development---Siemens Goa, India units innovates for the world

At its corporate technology center in India's state of Goa, Siemens engineers helped design a low-cost scanner. They concentrated on the camera at the scanner's heart and developed a local replacement costing only about $500 to produce, compared with the original's $2,000. The engineers drew on their experience of India's price-sensitive market for surveillance cameras. Instead of customized sensor chips, they employed the same inexpensive light conversion technology used in consumer digital cameras, and bolstered the pictures with extra image-processing technology. Image resolution was further improved by switching to a digital interface. India research and development
"The new camera is not a cheap copy of a western model," says Vishnu Swaminathan, head of the embedded hardware system program at Siemens Corporate Technology India. "We redesigned everything from scratch with a view to cutting costs while meeting the specific needs of local doctors."
Siemens says the new camera will eventually be installed in high-technology X-ray machines for developed markets. Quoted in the Financial Times, Peter Löscher, Siemens chief executive, says: "A good idea or product from, for instance, India can be plugged into a global system of sales and manufacturing. It helps increase a company's competitiveness not only in emerging markets but also in industrialized countries."
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