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 thrive from innovation, persistence and a commitment to community. Founded in Columbus, Ind., in 1919 as Cummins Engine Company by Clessie Lyle Cummins, the firm was among the first to see the commercial potential of an unproven engine technology invented two decades earlier by Rudolph Diesel.
Clessie Cummins was a self taught mechanic and inventor with the desire to d…
