Innovation is a key success factor for companies in order to remain competitive in the long term. A key question here is how artificial intelligence can effectively support the innovation process.
AI-supported Innovation Read Post »
Many projects nowadays have the challenge that they are not based on sufficient resources. Besides
the omnipresent lack of skilled professionals, we often experience that companies decide to start
additional projects, although the resources are actually not even sufficient for the running ones.
Too Busy to Improve? Read Post »
At the end of last year, the VDA QMC published the new version 4.0 of the “Automotive SPICE®” process assessment model. The “International Assessor Certification Scheme” – “intacs®” for short – had already decided to develop a new concept for the training of assessors and practitioners, the release of which is to take place in coordination with the VDA QMC in parallel with the new model version.
Automotive SPICE® 4.0 and the new intacs® training concept Read Post »
The new version of SPICE for Mechanical Engineering was recently released. This shows fundamental changes compared to the previous version, as the structure of the processes has changed. In addition, it has been harmonized with version 4.0 of the Automotive SPICE® maturity model, although it has not been incorporated into the standard.
SPICE for Mechanical Engineering 2.0 – What your customers really expect Read Post »
The increasing complexity, shortened development times, distributed development, heightened cost pressures, technological change, and organizational transformations are just a few of the challenges facing the current development.
Systems Engineering – Why the heck do we need this? Read Post »
Cybersecurity Goals, Controls, Requirements and Threats are important forces for cybersecurity engineering. It is nearly impossible to separate them in a timely manner. In fact, they influence each other during definition.
Fo(u)rces of Cybersecurity Engineering Read Post »
In May 2023, the VDA QMC published a pre-release version of Automotive SPICE® 4.0 on its website together with the draft “Automotive SPICE® Guidelines 2nd edition” (the so-called yellow volume). We took a closer look at the modifications in both documents.
ASPICE 4.0: Evolution or Revolution? Read Post »
First, our processes constantly ask us to specify requirements. Then we have to bother with quite a lot of documents and specifications. Even the relevant literature cannot explain to me in an understandable way what the difference between all these requirements is supposed to be. And finally, an assessor comes and evaluates my specification as insufficient.
How do I bring levels to my requirement chaos? Read Post »
The Automotive SPICE® process assessment model is facing significant changes with its new version 4.0. The goal of the VDA QMC changes is to add cybersecurity-specific processes to the model to meet regulatory requirements such as those of UNECE R155 for managing cybersecurity risks in supply chains.
Automotive SPICE® 4.0 – The next major update of the most used process assessment model Read Post »
Wait, hasn’t the development of electrics and electronics always been part of our systems? In principle yes, but the development was largely self-sufficient and the existing interfaces were often neglected.
Hardware SPICE – When electronics development becomes part of our system Read Post »
