Overview

Infosys Turbomachinery and Propulsion services utilize advanced technology to reduce weight, noise, emissions, development cycles and cost while improving fuel efficiency, product lifetime, engine availability and reliability.

Our team consists of over 800 highly experienced domain experts who have successfully designed and developed solutions for major global original equipment manufacturers (OEM), including,

  • gas turbines for power generation
  • aero engines for civil and military aircraft
  • steam turbines for fossil, nuclear, solar and geothermal applications
  • wind turbines for onshore and offshore applications
  • control systems and plant equipment

We help our clients stay ahead of their competition by leveraging our solutions that deliver on requirements of new designs for performance upgrades, lifetime extension programs and reliability improvements.

Solutions deliver value at speed and scale that helps to optimize cost, enhance efficiency and improve time-to-market

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Our Service Offerings

We offer innovative solutions for global OEMs for their entire product lifecycle, from product development to production and operations.

  • Gas turbines:
    • Developing next-generation gas turbines that are fuel efficient, have lower emission levels, and offer higher reliability and availability for end users
    • Accelerate time to market by offering a comprehensive suite of solutions across the product lifecycle such as feasibility studies, concept and detailed design engineering, manufacturing support and concession management
  • Steam turbines:
    • Market leading engineering solutions which offer highly efficient and flexible turbines, advanced blade profiles and diffusers, long last-stage blade’s covering the entire range of nuclear, combined cycle, industrial, solar and traditional power plants
  • Wind turbines:
    • Optimize design for turbine components such as hub and nacelle to reduce cost and improve efficiency
    • Carry out root cause analysis (RCA) to identify key pain points and streamline design
  • Test and validation:
    • Our integrated engineering and digital package offer one-stop solutions for design testing and validation requirements
    • We assist in rig and instrumentation design, data acquisition and test management for performance guarantee, fleet management and automation and simulation
  • Control systems:
    • Future-proofing control system solutions in the power domain
    • Our domain expertise in basic controls to high end simulations makes us a trusted partner for our customers
  • Plant integration and accessories:
    • Offer cost-efficient concurrent engineering solutions for turnkey and EPC partnerships from concept design to commissioning across the spectrum of fossil, combined cycle, solar and hydropower plants

Our Core Engineering Capabilities

Core Engine Skills

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics

Design of state-of-the-art 3D blading

Heat transfer and cooling

Heat transfer and cooling

Designs for life extension and performance increase

Combustion

Combustion

Low emissions with high fuel and operational flexibility

Mechanical integrity

Mechanical integrity

Meeting life targets for new builds and life extension for in service equipment

Mechanical design

Mechanical design

End-to-end component design and ownership

Design for additive manufacturing

Design for additive manufacture

Metal additive manufacturing for improved functional performance and lifetime and component repair

Control system design

Control system design

Control solutions and protection software to support installed base demands for capacity boosting, reliability, availability and flexibility

Engine integration skills

Engine integration

Systems engineering to manage and meet overall requirements

Testing and validation

Testing and validation

Verifications of design and performance, guaranteed to meet the end customer’s needs

Plant Engineering and Integration skills

Piping and arrangement

Piping and arrangement

Design, stress qualification and detailing for optimized layout arrangement

Construction and commissioning

Construction and commissioning

Site inspection, construction sequences and test plans

Mechanical and electrical equipment

Mechanical and electrical equipment

Design, integration and lifecycle engineering for seamless support

System and process engineering

System and process engineering

Functional safety lifecycle according to given standards

Customer documentation

Customer documentation

Authoring and document management

Configuration management

Configuration management

Outage forecast and inventory optimization

Key Market Drivers

Business Drivers

  • Smart solutions that accelerate time to market
  • Higher efficiencies for improved return on investments
  • Reduced carbon emissions to meet sustainability goals
  • Optimize cost to convert CAPEX to OPEX

Engineering Drivers

  • End-to-end design solutions for turnkey partnerships
  • Design optimization for better results with reduced cycle time

Innovation Hubs

Infosys Turbomachinery and Propulsion services operate through centers in Mysore & Bangalore (India) , Moscow (Russia) and Karlovac (Croatia). Our latest center in Baden (Switzerland) is part of Infosys’ overall growth strategy to help clients navigate their digital transformation journeys.

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Challenges & Solutions

  • Large team with specialty skills (i.e., thermoacoustic, testing and validation) to deliver scale and speed
  • Close presence to our customers while exploring a global footprint for lower costs
  • Digitally enabled solutions, accelerators and frameworks (augmented reality overlays, digital twins)

  • Value analysis, value engineering solutions, should-cost analysis of parts considering design for and sourcing in emerging markets
  • Improved operation (output/efficiency/emissions), enhanced reliability, availability and ultimately reduced service cost
  • Servicing, replacing and interconnecting legacy control systems and providing high fidelity simulators for optimizing operation, training and assisting operating personnel
  • IoT solutions for real-time condition monitoring, automated collection and analysis of field data for dashboards, early warnings and root cause analysis

  • Partnerships with academia and joint research projects for efficiency improvement, emission reduction, advanced combustion and cooling schemes
  • Design for additive manufacturing technology
  • Decarbonization using hydrogen combustion, coal to gas repowering, syngas and biodiesel operation
  • Operational flexibility to support grid stability for increasing fraction of renewable power
  • Digitally enhanced processes, products and services (i.e., enhanced operating manuals using augmented reality/ virtual reality technologies)