VDA AUTOMOTIVE SYS CONFERENCE 2022 – Two Process Fellows, two presentations
May 17, 2022
At this year's VDA AUTOMOTIVE SYS CONFERENCE, which will be held June 28-30, 2022, in Potsdam as well as online, two of our Process Fellows will each give a presentation:
Bernhard Sechser will kick things off on the 1st day of the conference at 10:15 a.m. with his presentation intacs™ SPICE Assessors today and tomorrow – Skills and training requirements for new topics such as Cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity - a topic that is currently on everyone's lips and affects every company that wants to survive in the automotive industry in the future. In addition to the already high demands on the quality and functional safety of the systems developed for a highly complex vehicle, topics such as access protection, threat defense, security strategies, etc. are now being added. For the developers of such systems themselves, it is already difficult to know and consider all the necessary aspects. But beyond that, there must be other, independent, and objective people who must be able to evaluate the implemented solutions, both technically and in terms of systematical development.
Automotive SPICE® is a process assessment model that is demanded by vehicle manufacturers as the basis for almost all these systems. In Functional Safety according to ISO 26262, it is often equated with the "QM" level. However, the topic has never officially managed to be integrated into Automotive SPICE®.
When it comes to cybersecurity, things are quite different. In its rule R155, the UNECE requires, among other things, that vehicle manufacturers identify and manage cybersecurity risks in the supply chain. In this context, Automotive SPICE® is named as an appropriate method to identify process-related product risks by adding cybersecurity-specific processes. But here, too, the question arises as to who should and can check these processes for adequacy, especially in the context of type approval, where a positive assessment result will become crucial. Until now, there have been no specific requirements for this.
This presentation aims to shed light on this problem on the assessor side and to present both the currently defined procedure and the future intacs™ training scheme.
Our Process Fellow Timo Karasch will talk about Long term experiences with Mechanical SPICE in a complex product development on the 3rd conference day at 11:30 a.m.
How can the models from Mechanical and Automotive SPICE really help us in development? We have accompanied the development of a complex product consisting of mechanics, software, and electronics over a longer period of time.
Based on trainings, assessments and gap analysis for mechanical SPICE, a couple of pitfalls and challenges have been identified. This lecture will present an assessment process with recommendations and hints for assessors and companies using SPICE for mechanical engineering.
This field report from Timo Karasch, a member of the “SPICE for Mechanical Engineering” intacs working group shows reliable findings from several months of development and improvement in a complex product development. It gives an insight into how the generic processes of the available models can be mapped to the real development in a meaningful way. The article addresses both the challenges and recommendations for companies and assessors.
Bernhard Sechser will kick things off on the 1st day of the conference at 10:15 a.m. with his presentation intacs™ SPICE Assessors today and tomorrow – Skills and training requirements for new topics such as Cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity - a topic that is currently on everyone's lips and affects every company that wants to survive in the automotive industry in the future. In addition to the already high demands on the quality and functional safety of the systems developed for a highly complex vehicle, topics such as access protection, threat defense, security strategies, etc. are now being added. For the developers of such systems themselves, it is already difficult to know and consider all the necessary aspects. But beyond that, there must be other, independent, and objective people who must be able to evaluate the implemented solutions, both technically and in terms of systematical development.
Automotive SPICE® is a process assessment model that is demanded by vehicle manufacturers as the basis for almost all these systems. In Functional Safety according to ISO 26262, it is often equated with the "QM" level. However, the topic has never officially managed to be integrated into Automotive SPICE®.
When it comes to cybersecurity, things are quite different. In its rule R155, the UNECE requires, among other things, that vehicle manufacturers identify and manage cybersecurity risks in the supply chain. In this context, Automotive SPICE® is named as an appropriate method to identify process-related product risks by adding cybersecurity-specific processes. But here, too, the question arises as to who should and can check these processes for adequacy, especially in the context of type approval, where a positive assessment result will become crucial. Until now, there have been no specific requirements for this.
This presentation aims to shed light on this problem on the assessor side and to present both the currently defined procedure and the future intacs™ training scheme.
Our Process Fellow Timo Karasch will talk about Long term experiences with Mechanical SPICE in a complex product development on the 3rd conference day at 11:30 a.m.
How can the models from Mechanical and Automotive SPICE really help us in development? We have accompanied the development of a complex product consisting of mechanics, software, and electronics over a longer period of time.
Based on trainings, assessments and gap analysis for mechanical SPICE, a couple of pitfalls and challenges have been identified. This lecture will present an assessment process with recommendations and hints for assessors and companies using SPICE for mechanical engineering.
This field report from Timo Karasch, a member of the “SPICE for Mechanical Engineering” intacs working group shows reliable findings from several months of development and improvement in a complex product development. It gives an insight into how the generic processes of the available models can be mapped to the real development in a meaningful way. The article addresses both the challenges and recommendations for companies and assessors.
