These types of Captive Global centers provide the following focused services for a global multinational:

• Engineering – product design or
• Research and development innovating and developing products, services, and supporting processes.

They add a higher level of value by leveraging talent in offshore geography and enabling innovation in the entire product development life cycle. 

Traditionally the research was mostly conducted near the main manufacturing and corporate setting. Captive R&D Centers can cache upon the option of quality talent available in locations like India, the R&D Centers are being set up in these offshore geographies. 

Captive engineering centers provide shared engineering services to multiple manufacturing centers, field units and R&D centers as back-end support to core activities.