Platform Assessment – Challenges and Recommendations Regarding Automotive SPICE©

With Automotive SPICE® PAM v4.0 [1], the assessment effort increases compared to the previous versions. In addition, many customers require more than one assessment per individual project - and each assessment is supposed to evaluate the entire product. This contradicts the approach of many automotive suppliers to develop diverse platforms and thus reduce the workload of individual development teams [12]. Based on the experience gained during more than 100 Automotive SPICE® assessments, intention is to present an approach to reunite the controversial points of view in a meaningful way. After defining the platforms where this approach is applicable, it will be used for selected processes to present practises that would have to be specifically considered by the assessor team in an Automotive SPICE® (in addition to the familiar VDA guidelines) on the part of a platform project and on the part of a customer (application) project to bring both sides back together.