The long-term collaboration will modernise SKF’s present IT panorama and create an AI basis for higher agility, resilience and operational effectivity throughout the enterprise.
Press launch
GOTHENBURG | MUMBAI, Might 27, 2026: Tata Consultancy Providers (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a worldwide chief in IT providers, consulting, and enterprise options, has entered right into a strategic partnership with SKF to speed up clever transformation throughout its world operations. Via this collaboration, TCS will allow SKF to construct a future-ready digital enterprise, leveraging AI to reimagine industrial manufacturing enterprise.
As a part of the engagement, TCS will present finish‑to‑finish managed providers throughout functions, infrastructure, knowledge, finish‑person providers, safety, and connectivity for SKF throughout the globe. Combining its deep manufacturing and IT experience with AI-led agentic workflows, TCS will modernise and simplify world expertise panorama. This system may even standardise operations, strengthen area‑led expertise structure, modernise core infrastructure, and speed up the design and adoption of next-generation Enterprise Useful resource Planning platform.
Rickard Gustafson, CEO, SKF, stated, “The following decade of commercial manufacturing can be outlined by how deeply corporations combine AI into how they design, produce, and serve. SKF intends to guide that shift. With TCS as our associate, we aren’t simply modernising our expertise, we’re additionally constructing the operational and AI foundations that may set new requirements for precision and buyer worth throughout our {industry}. This can be a long-term dedication, made between two corporations that share a conviction about the place industrial manufacturing is heading.”
Ok. Krithivasan, MD and CEO, Tata Consultancy Providers, stated, “Our partnership with SKF is centred on modernising its world IT panorama and constructing a resilient, scalable digital basis for the longer term. Collectively, we’re making use of knowledge pushed intelligence and AI to create an agile enterprise that may adapt to technological and market change whereas supporting long run sustainable development and competitiveness. This collaboration displays our joint dedication for making SKF an AI-native, industry-leading technology-driven industrial producer. TCS will convey its deep area experience with superior expertise and partnership ecosystem to ship final result pushed, enterprise scale enterprise transformation throughout the worth chain.”
This partnership will assist SKF create a globally related working mannequin, combining centralised, AI‑enabled programs and harmonised processes with the pliability to fulfill native market wants. It helps SKF to embed AI in each layer throughout IT, enterprise and merchandise thereby driving quicker development, enhancing buyer expertise, and advancing strategic priorities at each world and regional ranges.
TCS’ full stack AI strategy spanning infrastructure to intelligence and entry to cutting-edge innovation ecosystems will assist SKF create a fit-for-purpose working setting which can host enterprise transformation initiatives throughout the commercial worth chain for improved buyer centricity and market differentiation.
This new partnership with SKF builds on TCS’ sturdy foothold within the Nordic area the place it has been working since 1991. At present, over 20,000 TCS workers assist main enterprises in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, driving development and transformation for among the area’s high firms throughout a number of sectors. TCS has maintained a robust presence in Sweden for over thirty years, with workplaces in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. TCS Tempo StudioTM in Stockholm supplies clients unique entry to its world innovation ecosystem. TCS has been acknowledged as a “Prime Employer” in Europe for fourteen consecutive years by the impartial Prime Employers Institute and was ranked primary in Sweden in 2026.
For greater than a decade, TCS has constantly ranked among the many high IT service suppliers for buyer satisfaction in Europe in Whitelane Analysis’s impartial survey of main IT-spending organisations, securing the quantity‑one place in Sweden in 2026. TCS can also be deeply engaged within the Swedish neighborhood because the title sponsor and expertise associate of TCS Lidingöloppet, the world’s largest cross‑nation operating race.