Automotive SPICE®
Automotive SPICE®
Automotive SPICE® has been developed by consensus of the car manufacturers within the Automotive Special Interest Group (SIG) of the joint Procurement Forum/SPICE User Group under the Automotive SPICE® initiative.
As the complexity of automotive products has increased exponentially over the last years, modern luxury vehicle now comprise as many as 150+ Electronic Control Units (ECUs). With days to come, the increase in functionality will get more and more challenging as moderns car are turning out to be complex software systems. This also leads to various challenges in automotive software development in terms of requirements, design, testing, management, quality, configuration etc.
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In this scenario, organizations need to have a robust process approach while dealing with automotive software development projects. Automotive SPICE® is such a model, which defines processes and best practices for embedded software development. Automotive SPICE® is developed by experts of the automotive industry which contains the processes (best practices) for automotive industry. Automotive SPICE® is a trademark of VDA (Verband der Automobilindustrie – Association Of Automotive Industry).
Major OEMs has agreed to set Automotive SPICE® as the standard process model for their development as well as a means of qualifying their suppliers and assessing the risks associated with those suppliers. Often, they are required to achieve a certain capability level in selected processes, a criteria to be fulfilled before winning a contract. Typically, assessments are performed by OEMs or consulting organizations to ensure the status of suppliers to ensure they quality for levels are desired.
Automotive SPICE®, is two dimensional model having Processes in one dimension and Capability levels in another. There are Thirty Two processes grouped in to three process category, eight process groups as shown on process dimension, and 6 (practically 5) capability levels as shown on Capability Dimension.
The first version of Automotive SPICE was published in May, 2005. Since then it has been one of the most popular and trusted model among Automotive OEMs for implementation and assessment. OEMs have set their requirements against achievement of ASPICE processes. The latest version is Automotive SPICE version 4.0 released on November 29, 2023
Automotive SPICE® Services
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QMGC provides training on latest topics of Automotive SPICE and related SPICE topics.
- intacs® Certified Process Expert Automotive SPICE®
- intacs® Certified Provisional Assessor (Automotive SPICE® v4.0)
- intacs® Certified Process Expert and Provisional Assessor Combined Training (Automotive SPICE® v4.0)
- intacs® Certified Automotive SPICE® 4.0 Upgrade Training
- intacs® Certified Hardware SPICE
- intacs® Certified Machine Learning SPICE
- intacs® certified Cybersecurity for Automotive SPICE® Assessor
- intacs® Certified AGILE SPICE
Automotive SPICE Consulting
We provide consulting for Automotive SPICE® and its extensions (AGILE SPICE, Hardware SPICE, Machine Learning SPICE etc.) to establish process framework and its implementation. We ensure adequate support is provided to these organizations towards achieving required capability and maturity level to their Research and Development (R&D) teams and delivery of high-quality products.
Our consulting services can help you:
- Evaluate the current ‘as-is’ status of you organization processes and identify improvements through gap analysis.
- Develop, Update your organizational processes and process assets and align with your business goals and requirements of models/standards to be implemented
- Support process and tool implementation
- Ensure the requirements of models and standards are met w.r.t.Automotive SPICE® ISO 26262, SPICE for Cybersecurity, AGILE SPICE®etc.
- Reduce overheads and increase customer satisfaction
- Systematically improve existing workflows and methods to achieve the required capability levels with a strong focus on your business goals.
- Reduce process overhead by supporting efficient tool implementations, for example, to implement bi-directional traceability.
- Fulfill the requirements of Automotive SPICE® in harmony with functional safety, cybersecurity and agile requirements.
- Fulfill the requirements of Automotive SPICE® extensions, including Automotive SPICE® for Cybersecurity, Mechanical SPICE® and Hardware SPICE®.
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