An Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis can support the evaluation of candidates for opportunities of collaboration, e.g. new suppliers (see Use Cases below). Official Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis may only be conducted by intacs-certified Competent or Principal Assessors (see also: how to become a certified assessor).

The Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis is a subset of Automotive SPICE®, considers aspects of Automotive SPICE® for Cybersecurity Engineering, but excludes Machine Learning Engineering and Hardware Engineering.

The typical duration of an Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis is 2-3 days.

What are the Use Cases?

An Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis can be used to evaluate the process capability of potential suppliers upfront to an awarding.
Especially if there was no Automotive SPICE® assessment in the past at the supplier (or it is too long ago) there is a high risk to award a supplier without knowing its process capability.

Several companies like Volkswagen use it to rate and classify their suppliers.

Also in ongoing projects an Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis can be performed, e.g. process maturity rating to pass quality gates or milestones.

What is the Scope?

The following processes can be assessed up to capability level 1:

Automotive SPICE® Assessment	Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis
Specific project or projects	Exemplary project or projects, because a specific project (reflecting the customer/solution intend) is not in place
Processes in scope are rated between capability levels 0 to 5	Processes in scope are rated with capability levels 0 or 1
Basis for rating is the “NPLF” rating scheme (Not/Partially/Largely/Fully achieved)	Basis for rating is the “Red/Yellow/Green” rating scheme
Several processes in process groups management, system engineering, software engineering, hardware engineering, machine learning, supporting, acquisition, supply, validation	Based on Automotive SPICE®, but reduced scope: – e.g.: no hardware, machine learning, validation, acquisition processes. – content of the aspects to be checked is reduced per process On the other side, added cybersecurity processes.
Duration for typical (example) scope: 16 processes, level 2: 6 days	Duration depended on scope: 2-3 days

An Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis is performed by an assessor team (at least two certified assessors) and will be conducted with the following steps:

• Planning
  • Detailed goal and scope definition
  • Preparation of the assessment plan and schedule
  • Preparation of the interviews and the kick-off meetings
• Kick-off Meeting
  • Briefing of the assessor team together with the lead assessor
  • Short presentation of the assessed organization
  • Presentation of the assessment schedule
• Interviews
  • The processes mentioned above will be assessed as defined in the schedule.
• Consolidation and Team Feedback
  • Final consolidation of the rating by the assessment team
  • First feedback with all participants: clarification of questions and, if necessary, evaluation of additional evidences
• Report
  • The results of the analysis will be assembled into a report and handed over to the sponsor.

• Performance of an Automotive SPICE® Potential Analysis: We have several intacs® certifed assessors (see also About Us). We can take over the assessment lead, co-assessor or both.
• Training: INTACS® certified Automotive SPICE®​  ​Potential Analysis Training

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