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Capability Reach your goals by achieving „ higher levels of professionalism“ Adviser

The Capability Adviser supports Automotive SPICE™ and ISO 15504 Team Assessments over the intra-/internet, creates profiles, assessment reports and integrates learning management systems to distribute already established i best practices in the company.

55 Intranet and Internet Solution 55 Generation of Microsoft Word© and 55 Operating System Independent (Linux, Adobe PDF© Assessment Reports Windows etc.) 55 Export of Assessment Results and Comments to 55 No Limitation in the Number of Microsoft Excel© and Microsoft Word© Assessments, Projects or Assessors 55 Export of Attribute and Profile Ratings to 55 Multiuser System Adobe PDF© and Microsoft Excel© 55 Interactive Help 55 Reuse of Assessment Results and Evidences 55 Rating and Comments on Indicator Level 55 Import/Export of Assessments 55 Process Tailoring 55 Generation of Assessment Reports in Microsoft Word© und Adobe PDF© 55 Evidence Collection 55 Integrated Automotive & Safety (IEC 61508/ 55 Assessment Profiles and Attributes ISO WD 26262) SPICE Assessment Approach 55 Benchmarking 55 Cross-References to ISO 9001 55 Collaboration of Assessors 55 Online Review of Evidences through Assessors 55 Knowledge Database

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With the huge gain of time during compari- ” son and evaluation of all assessor results I have more time for the underlying goal of the assessments, that is to achieve an essen- tial contribution to process improvement and therefore to even better products.

“ Bernhard Sechser Continental Nuremburg ” In summary the quality of assessments at the T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH has mproved through the supporting func- tions of the Capability Adviser. Moreover the time used to prepare assessment reports decreased.

“ Christoph Daubitz T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH

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Expert Reach your goals by achieving „ higher levels of professionalism“ Team

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Dr. Richard Messnarz is an ISO 15504 Principal Assessor and for the last 20 years he has been acting as consultant for leading companies like BOSCH, ZF Friedrichshafen Dr. Richard Messnarz AG, ZF SACHS, /VW, Continental Automotive, Giesecke & Devrient, Magna Powertrain, Flextronics, T-Systems and many more. Dr. Messnarz focuses on system architecture, functional design, requirements management and safety. Dr. Messnarz manages EU initiatives to deal with innovation (www.innovationmanager.org) and process improvement (www. eurospi.net) and he is the moderator of the German initiative SOQRATES, where experiences and practical improvements for requirement management, system and SW design, system test and safety standards are replaced (involved are companies like Magna Powertrain, Magna E-Car, ZF-Zentrale, ZF-Sachs, Continental Temic, Continental Teves, , Elektrobit, KTM, etc.). In addition, he is cofounder and vice president of the European Certification and Qualification Association (ECQA) and since 1994 he has been being coordinator of the European System, Service and Software Process Improvement and Innovation Initiative (EuroSPI2) and he is organizer of the annual EuroSPI2 conference. He is currently manager of the EU project “ECQA Certified Safety Manager” (2012 – 2013).

Dipl.-Ing. Damjan Ekert has studied Telematics at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria and finished his studies with distinction. Since 2001 he has been working for Dipl.-Ing. Damjan Ekert ISCN as SW project manager, ISO 15504 and Automotive SPICE consultant and SW integrator. He was involved in different international projects, was in charge of the EU-financed project „e-security manager“ and is certified trainer for EU Project Management and e-security management. Damjan Ekert has many years of experiences as consultant in the range of software process improvement and is member of the group „model comparison“ of the Austrian research group S2QI. In addition, he is certified ISO 15504 assessor, vice president of ISECMA registered association (International IT Security Management Board) and member of the European Certification and Qualification Association (ECQA). Damjan Ekert is consultant for quality management for Magna, ZF-Lemförder and ZF- Lenksystems. He is currently involved in the area of BPM (Business Process Management) with two EU funded projects (ECQA Certified Business Project Manager and Business Process Management for Higher Education).

Dr. Volker Ovi Bachmann is a certified competent assessor and trained FMEA moderator. Since 2008 he has been being executive of SIBAC GmbH. He acted as Dr. Volker Ovi Bachmann adviser for Magna Powertrain, ZF-Lenksysteme, ZF-Lemförde and other medium- sized companies.

The advisory activities involve the issues quality management in close collaboration with ISCN. This includes also the accomplishment of assessments according to DIN/ISO 15504 (SPICE) as well as the consulting for development processes. In addition the moderation of FMEAs and risk analysis and the combination of the safety standard IEC 61508 with the named methods belongs to it. He is a specialist for mechatronical complete system observation and platform strategies. Dr. Bachmann has written diverse national and international announcements and patents.

After his informatics study at the ETH Zurich Dipl.-Ing. Bernhardt Messner has been Dipl.-Ing. Bernhardt Messner occupying with model-based SW development (Model Driven Development, MDD) since the nineties - mainly in the range of automotive.

With his long lasting experience he supports companies in the conception and implementation of MDD for increasing productivity and quality with - improvement of recoverability, - ideal use of automatic possibilities, - increase of quality, - securing of portability and - better legibility and easy incorporation. There standards (e.g. AUTOSAR) or processes (e.g. SPICE) are weaved into a company-specific MDD approach, to reduce highly the time-to-market for serial developments.

Dr Andreas Riel has more than 12 years industry experience. He was innovation manager at AVL List Graz. Then he moved to Grenoble Institute of Technology, Dr. Andreas Riel France and became the coordinating manager of a FP7 project for innovation in manufacturing, which resulted in the foundation of EMIRacle. He was coordinator of the EU project “Integrated Design Engineer” and he habilitated at the Greoboble INP. Andreas Riel joined the ISCN Group in 2012. Currently he is a member of the EU project “ECQA Certified Safety Manager” where together with ISCN and other partners a set of core competencies for safety managers are developed. He is an innovation management expert and acts as consultant for the French and German industry.

„ “ Expert Reach your goals by achieving „ higher levels of professionalism“ Team

The ISCN Group has more than 17 years experience in industry and is represented in i Austria, , France, Ireland and the Netherlands.

Dick Theisens studied at the University Twente and is manager of a spin-off of this university (Symbol BV), which provides Lean Six Sigma and high quality production Ir. Dick Theisens services for leading industry in the Netherlands and Germany. Together with ISCN and supported by a EU consortium a Lean Six Sigma Academy was formed in 2011. Dick Theisens joined the ISCN Group in 2011 to jointly offer Lean Six Sigma services for the European industry.

Adrienne Clarke, BA has been working for ISCN LTD for 11 years. Her main tasks are to act as the training manager of ISCN in cooperation with the German Automotive Adrienne Clarke BA Association (VDA) for Automotive SPICE Compact and Assessor courses. She studied new media in London and has more than 20 years working experience from the Netherlands, UK and Ireland. She is also one of the organizers of the annual EuroSPI conferences. In the recent years she has specialised as a social re- sponsibility researcher and expert and is part of the EU project “ECQA Certified Social Responsibility Manager”, which delivers core competencies to build on human resources and work forces.

References

ZF Central Automotive SPICE Assessments, Consulting & Training in SPICE, Innovation and Functional Safety, Use of Capability Adviser Portal (since 1997) ZF-Lenksysteme Consulting of Customer Projects for VW and Daimler (ASIL-D) Covering System Requirements, System Design, Project Management (since 2004) Magna Powertrain Consulting for the Set-up of Development Processes for Different Customer Projects (ASIL-D P r o j e c t s ) f o r A u d i , B M W , N i s s a n , H o n d a ( 2 0 0 7 b i s 2 0 1 0 ) , T r a i n i n g P a r t n e r s i n c e 2 0 1 1 , U s e o f Capability Adviser Portal Hella Automotive SPICE Assessments for Customer Projects for Daimler, VW, Consulting of the Process Management Team to Set Up Pragmatic and Usable Processes (since 2011) Continental Nuremberg Automotive SPICE Assessments, FMEA Moderation for ECUs for Audi, Uses Capability Adviser Portal (since 2003) ZF-Lemförder Consulting in System Requirements, System Design, Project Management etc. for Customer Projects for and Audi (since 2009) Bosch Combination of Automotive SPICE and Functional Safety Audit for Customer DAIMLER (2011) T-Systems MMS ISO 15504 Assessments for Top Projects and Support of Improvement Program, Use of Capability Adviser Portal (since 2005) Daimler Consulting for the Development of the Next Generation of Gear System NAG2 and FMEA Moderation (since 2009) ZF-Sachs Automotive SPICE Assessments in the Area of Driving Dynamics Systems and Hybrid Development, Use of Capability Adviser Portal (since 2005) KTM Consulting for Functional (Functional Safety Concept, Technical Safety Concept, HSI, DIA, Test Strategies, etc.) for 3 Models of Motorbikes (since 2011) EuroSPI2 EuroSPI2 is a European think tank and knowledge exchange platform for System, Services & Software Process Improvement & Innovation (ISCN is coordinator of this platform)

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