The development processes of KOSTAL, a global manufacturer of mechatronic components in the automotive industry and headquartered in Germany, were stored as Microsoft Office documents in a central QMS system until 2014. There was no guided tailoring of the standard process description to individual projects.

The customer is an automotive supplier who is based in Germany and has worldwide locations. At its location in China, the company had to prove Automotive SPICE® Level 2 in two running projects on control devices (ignition lock, sensing element of roof unit) for Chinese OEMs.

The customer is the US subsidiary of a global German technology group from the medical engineering industry. Strict market regulations require compliance with FDA, IEC 62304, and many other standards.

The customer is a global tier one supplier in the automotive industry based in Germany. With over 200,000 employees and several large acquisitions, the organization is heterogeneously structured with different cultures, dependencies and processes.

The customer is a global tier one supplier in the automotive industry based in Germany. As many other automotive suppliers, this company was leader in mechanics and electronics, but weak in the software sector, due to a lack of respective experience.

Internal engineering structures of a global automotive manufacturer, based in the US, are widely isolated from each other in the business units of mechanics, electronics and software.

The customer is an international corporation based in the US. In its core market Aerospace & Defense, the company is locked into strict specifications which require compliance to AS91100C/D, DO-178C, DO-254 and many other standards and regulations.