About

[What HPMPL is, and why it exists]

Background

Manufacturing costs in developed economies continue to rise, increasing the demand for outsourced manufacturing. Access to highly-skilled engineering labor is equally if not more expensive, making it out of reach for many businesses. Solutions to these rising costs have been addressed primarily through two different ways.

• Increased automation capabilities for manufacturing in developed economies: when the most significant factor driving cost increases is the cost of human labor, decreasing the required human labor through increased automation is an obvious solution. This requires skilled engineering.
• Outsourcing to less developed economies which are well-situated for manufacturing. China, for example, has built its economy around global outsourcing.

An engineering process outsourcing firm can help with the first by providing access to affordable engineering services and with the latter by assessing, vetting, and developing relationships with appropriate suppliers.

The key problem

Both of the above solutions tend to work better for large corporations than for small- to medium-sized business (SMBs)

• The machines which facilitate automation are expensive in themselves, and some degree of skilled labor is required to install, maintain, program, and operate them - and the degree of skill required increases with the complexity of manufacturing operations and the tightness of required tolerances. The more automation is facilitated, the more expensive the machines involved are. For large corporations, this is not inherently problematic. For SMBs, costs can often be prohibitive.
• Outsourcing is also easier for large corporations which can establish subsidiaries or send key personnel overseas as liaisons for long periods of time.

Engineering Process Outsourcing (EPO) to India for SMBs: the HPMPL solution

An American engineer contracting for two small, niche businesses was given difficult tasks to accomplish on an impossibly small budget. Having become extensively familiar with India's unique culture through friends, acquaintances, and students, he then teamed up with a seasoned engineer in Pune to achieve the unachievable, and HPMPL was born. What HPMPL has already done successfully for its first clients, it can do successfully for any other company.

What's special about us

We operate in India

• [Possibly move to Why India] India has a large and rapidly growing manufacturing sector with a large aerospace and defense sector capable of producing tight tolerances and employing multi-axis strategies.
• India's manufacturing capabilities are uniquely situated within cultural conditions which drive it towards excellence. Education is valued in India in a way which might seem difficult to believe. Teachers in India - at every level - are afforded enormous respect and prestige and are always addressed as 'Sir' or 'Ma'am'. Popularity in Indian schools veers towards the top academic students rather than athletes and cheerleaders, such that Indians are curious whether movies depicting the culture of American high schools are pure fantasy. [Possibly redundant with Why India] STEM degrees abound in India, with an astonishing number of engineering university students pursuing degrees in engineering and over a million engineering graduates annually. At the same time, the job market is highly competitive, such that graduates in mechanical engineering often start their careers in positions not usually associated with engineering degrees in developed countries: operating CNCs, assembling or fitting parts, etc.
• This creates a truly unique situation and opportunity in manufacturing which is difficult to comprehend in Western countries without understanding the cultural conditions which create it. Whereas higher education in engineering is typically only involved in the highest-level positions in places like the US, such educational accomplishment will typically be involved at all levels of producing parts and assemblies in India.
• [Possibly remove — covered on Why India] Relative to the global economy, India is remarkably affordable - both in terms of the salaries of engineers and the affordability of manufacturing costs.

We are located in Pune, Maharashtra

• Pune is one of the top two manufacturing hubs in all of India, known especially for automotive, machinery, and industrial equipment manufacturing and precision engineering services, but possessing an extraordinary breadth of manufacturing capabilities. Pune forms a largely self-contained manufacturing ecosystem, identified by the government of India in a recent study as one of the few areas in India capable of producing an entire automobile or industrial machine entirely locally. Virtually every manufacturing process required by any client can be provided entirely locally, with a local supply of raw materials and stock which has evolved in conjunction with the manufacturing itself.
• Pune is only about a two-hour drive from the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, one of India's major sea-freight centers, simplifying ocean freight logistics.
• Pune is only a few hours by car or train from Mumbai, providing easy access to the manufacturing and supply resources of the Greater Mumbai Metropolitan Area and its major air freight port.

Our resident director has spent his entire career in the Pune manufacturing sector and has a vast network of established personal relationships with local manufacturing suppliers, affording him a degree of access and respect which simply cannot be purchased at any price.

Our US liaison is no mere sales person, but leads our engineering team, ensuring that there is no miscommunication between our team and clients and that all projects meet the exact expectations of the customer.

We are specialized

Unlike many other companies in this field, we do not provide generalized sourcing solutions at this time. Instead, we have chosen a narrow, deep focus on providing as much of the development pipeline as necessary for mechanical components and assemblies.