Partnership combines innovation-led product engineering with AI-powered manufacturing transformation to accelerate commercialization and enterprise-scale deployment.
CLEVELAND, OH — Oct. 21, 2026 — Nottingham Spirk, one of the world’s leading innovation and product development firms, and Tech Mahindra (NSE: TECHM), a leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation and technology consulting solutions to enterprises across industries, today announced a partnership to help manufacturers accelerate innovation, industrialization, and enterprise transformation at scale.
The collaboration brings together Nottingham Spirk’s five decades of product innovation expertise with Tech Mahindra’s Physical AI capabilities across simulation-led digital twins, AI vision, robotics integration, and autonomous decision-making to enable manufacturers to validate intelligent automation in virtual environments before deploying and scaling it across real-world production operations.
Manufacturers today face increasing pressure to shorten product development cycles, modernize legacy operations, and deliver innovation at unprecedented speed. Through this partnership, Nottingham Spirk and Tech Mahindra will jointly help customers bridge the gap between product innovation and enterprise-scale execution, accelerating the journey from concept to commercialization.
The partnership will also focus on developing joint go-to-market offerings across product engineering, manufacturing transformation, Industrial AI, digital engineering, smart manufacturing, cloud-enabled operations, and next-generation engineering services. Customers will benefit from integrated capabilities spanning ideation, product design, engineering, digital transformation, industrialization, and global deployment.
Manikantan NS, Global Head & SVP–Manufacturing Vertical, Tech Mahindra, said:
“Disruptive innovation begins with the courage to explore uncharted possibilities, and the ability to transform them into meaningful, scalable impact. Our partnership with Nottingham Spirk combines its proven leadership in breakthrough product innovation and commercialization with Tech Mahindra’s strengths in AI, Physical AI, engineering, and Adaptive Manufacturing. Together, we will help enterprises create next-generation products, experiences, and business models, while accelerating the evolution from connected and automated operations to intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous manufacturing, driving sustainable growth, greater competitiveness, and improved life experiences.”
Robert Chaves, Chairman, Nottingham Spirk, said:
“For fifty years, Nottingham Spirk has operated on a simple but demanding standard: an idea is not an innovation until it is in the hands of a customer. That standard has produced results few firms can match — a 95% commercialization rate across more than 1,600 patents and over $100 billion in revenue generated for our clients.
Today’s most competitive products sit at the intersection of physical engineering and digital intelligence, demanding expertise that spans the full product stack — from concept through global deployment. This partnership with Tech Mahindra makes that possible. Nottingham Spirk brings full-spectrum engineering depth — from mechanical and electrical foundations through hardware integration, IoT architecture, and edge AI — and a proven track record of turning breakthrough ideas into market-winning products. Tech Mahindra brings AI capabilities, cloud infrastructure, and global delivery that transforms successful products into enterprise-scale platforms.
Together, we cover the complete innovation lifecycle — from the first concept sketch to enterprise-scale deployment across world markets. Transformation at Scale and Speed represents our shared commitment to helping manufacturers innovate faster, scale smarter, and create lasting business value.”
By integrating innovation-led engineering with AI-enabled digital transformation, the collaboration aims to help customers accelerate product development, improve operational efficiency, reduce time-to-market, and achieve measurable business outcomes. As manufacturers continue to embrace Industry 4.0 and AI-driven operations, Tech Mahindra and Nottingham Spirk will jointly engage customers through innovation workshops, executive briefings, thought leadership initiatives, solution accelerators, and strategic co-innovation programs to shape the future of manufacturing.
About Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra (NSE: TECHM, BSE: 532755) offers AI-powered technology consulting and digital solutions to global enterprises across industries, enabling transformative scale at unparalleled speed. With 146,000+ professionals across 90 countries, Tech Mahindra provides a full spectrum of services including consulting, information technology, enterprise applications, business process services, engineering services, network services, customer experience & design, AI & analytics, and cloud & infrastructure services. Tech Mahindra is part of the Mahindra Group, founded in 1945, one of the largest and most admired multinational federation of companies. For more information on how TechM can partner with you to meet your Scale at Speed™ imperatives, please visit https://www.techmahindra.com
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About Nottingham Spirk
Nottingham Spirk is a premier product innovation firm that turns breakthrough ideas into commercialized products, robust patent portfolios, and new business ventures — with an unparalleled 95% commercialization rate across more than 1,600 patents and over $100 billion in revenue generated for clients. For fifty years, the firm has partnered with global brands, government agencies, corporations (from the middle-market to the Fortune Global 500), Private Equity firms, and funded ventures to bring Innovation at Speed™ to markets that cannot afford to wait.
Nottingham Spirk is built for an increasingly connected world, with capabilities spanning embedded systems, AI enablement, advanced engineering, and value engineering. The firm applies this expertise across sectors — including deep technical work with NASA, the U.S. DoW, and the DoE — developing solutions that balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and scalability.
At the core of this work is Nottingham Spirk’s proprietary Vertical Innovation® process, which brings insights, research, design, engineering, technology, rapid prototyping, value engineering, and commercialization together under one roof. The result: companies and government agencies move faster from opportunity to market, without sacrificing technical rigor or economic discipline.
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