About

Who we are and what we do

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 second 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 businesses (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.

Manufacturing Sourcing and Engineering Services Outsourcing 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

• 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 combined with a unique culture which prizes educational accomplishment - particularly in STEM fields. See the Why India page for more information about the advantages of outsourcing to India.

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 as well as 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 locally - with no parts or stock sourced elsewhere. Virtually every manufacturing process required by any client can be sourced without leaving the greater Pune metropolitan area, 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 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. We also have strong personal connections with manufacturers of LED lighting fixtures.