Cummins Headquarters, located in Columbus, Indiana Cummins is a global power leader that designs, manufactures, sells and services diesel engines and related technology around the world. Today, Cummins is a multinational Fortune 500 company that operates and serves customers around the globe. At the same time, Cummins retains strong ties to its Indiana home, where the Company's headquarters remain.Cummins' roots are planted in soil nourished by innovation, persistence and a commitment to community. Founded in Columbus, Ind., in 1919 as Cummins Engine Company, for its namesake Clessie Lyle Cummins, the fledgling firm was among the first to see the commercial potential of an unproven engine technology invented two decades earlier by Rudolph Diesel. Cummins is a technology leader in the diesel engine market, with employees working relentlessly to provide cutting-edge solutions to the increasingly difficult challenge of producing cleaner-running engines. For example, Cummins was the only company in the industry to meet the 2010 EPA standards for NOX emissions with the release in early 2007 of its new 6.7-liter turbo diesel for the Dodge Ram Heavy Duty pickup.Clessie Cummins' spirit of innovation and commitment to quality lives on nearly a century later in the nearly 40,000 Cummins employees who work to design, make and sell products that can be found in nearly every type of vehicle imaginable. Cummins has a long-standing commitment to creating diversity in the workplace. That effort is matched with an equal commitment to use a diverse supply base for the goods and services we purchase. We believe that maintaining a diverse supply base is vitally important in helping Cummins be the low cost producer in all of the markets we serve. Companies that value and manage diversity have a distinct advantage over those that do not when it comes to the bottom line. In fact, the ability to manage diversity well could be the difference between success and failure for businesses, as well as the communities in which they operate Cummins complementary business units design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems.