Gothenburg | Mumbai: SKF has awarded a global AI-led business transformation contract to Tata Consultancy Services, marking a long-term strategic collaboration aimed at modernising the company’s global IT landscape and creating an AI-powered enterprise foundation to enhance agility, resilience, and operational efficiency.
Through the partnership, SKF will accelerate intelligent transformation across its worldwide operations by leveraging artificial intelligence to reimagine industrial manufacturing processes and business functions.
As part of the engagement, TCS will deliver end-to-end managed services covering applications, infrastructure, data, end-user services, security, and connectivity for SKF globally.
By combining manufacturing expertise with AI-led agentic workflows, TCS will modernise and simplify SKF’s global technology ecosystem.
The transformation program will focus on standardising operations, strengthening domain-led technology architecture, modernising core infrastructure, and accelerating the adoption of next-generation Enterprise Resource Planning platforms across SKF’s operations.
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Rickard Gustafson, CEO, SKF, said, “The next decade of industrial manufacturing will be defined by how deeply companies integrate AI into how they design, produce, and serve. SKF intends to lead that shift. With TCS as our partner, we are not just modernising our technology, we are also building the operational and AI foundations that will set new standards for precision and customer value across our industry.
This is a long-term commitment, made between two companies that share a conviction about where industrial manufacturing is heading.”
K. Krithivasan, MD and CEO, Tata Consultancy Services, said, “Our partnership with SKF is centred on modernising its global IT landscape and building a resilient, scalable digital foundation for the future. Together, we are applying data driven intelligence and AI to create an agile enterprise that can adapt to technological and market change while supporting long term sustainable growth and competitiveness.
This collaboration reflects our joint commitment for making SKF an AI-native, industry-leading technology-driven industrial manufacturer.
TCS will bring its deep domain expertise with advanced technology and partnership ecosystem to deliver outcome driven, enterprise scale business transformation across the value chain.”
The partnership will help SKF establish a globally connected operating model by combining centralised AI-enabled systems and harmonised processes with the flexibility required to meet local market demands.
SKF also plans to embed AI across IT systems, business operations, and products to support faster growth, enhanced customer experiences, and strategic priorities across regional and global markets.
TCS said its full-stack AI capabilities, ranging from infrastructure to intelligence, along with access to innovation ecosystems, will help SKF build a fit-for-purpose operating environment to support transformation initiatives across the industrial value chain.
The collaboration is expected to improve customer centricity and strengthen SKF’s market differentiation efforts.
The new SKF partnership further strengthens TCS’ position in the Nordic region, where the company has been operating since 1991. TCS currently employs more than 20,000 professionals across Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, supporting enterprises across sectors with growth and digital transformation initiatives.
TCS has maintained a strong presence in Sweden for more than three decades, operating offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. The company’s TCS Pace Studio in Stockholm offers customers access to its global innovation ecosystem.
TCS has also been recognised as a “Top Employer” in Europe for fourteen consecutive years by the independent Top Employers Institute and was ranked number one in Sweden in 2026.
For more than a decade, TCS has consistently ranked among the leading IT service providers for customer satisfaction in Europe in Whitelane Research’s independent survey of IT-spending organisations. The company secured the top position in Sweden in 2026.
TCS is also actively engaged in Sweden’s sporting community as the title sponsor and technology partner of TCS Lidingöloppet, the world’s largest cross-country running race.
