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Tata Elxsi’s Automotive Centre of Excellence achieves prestigious Automotive SPICE® Level 5 certification for Organizational Maturity
Bangalore / Thiruvananthapuram, December 16, 2009 – Tata Elxsi, the leading embedded product design company and part of the $70 billion Tata group, announced that its Automotive Centre of Excellence has achieved Automotive SPICE® Organizational Maturity Level 5 certification using the PATHFINDER™ scheme. This assessment includes certificate of assessment for Process capability and Organizational maturity. Tata Elxsi’s Automotive Center for Excellence, located in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, houses specialized teams of embedded Automotive design engineers and domain specialists offering services to Automotive OEMs and suppliers in India and across the world.
The Automotive Special Interest Group (SIG) is a joint special interest group of The SPICE User Group and The Procurement Forum and have launched the Automotive SPICE© initiative together with the major motor vehicle manufacturers to develop a common framework for the assessment of suppliers in the Automotive Industry. The result is the publication of the Automotive SPICE© Process Assessment Model together with the associated Process Reference Model. This assessment of Tata Elxsi’s Automotive Centre of Excellence was carried out by a team of assessors led by Mr. Alec Dorling, and a team of assessors from IMPRONOVA, Sweden and KPMG.
Announcing this important certification, Mr. Natarajan, Vice President – Automotive Practice, Tata Elxsi Limited, said, “Over the years, Tata Elxsi has transformed into a trusted partner of choice for automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, Semiconductor and Tool vendors. We are pleased to be certified by a global automotive body responsible for setting standards in the field of automotive design excellence. Automotive SPICE L5 certification provides ample testimony to our best in class process strengths, functional expertise, state-of-the-art infrastructure, ability to deliver stringent design reliability and talent pool for automotive engineering. We intend to scale up our focus in the automotive practice and will continue to deliver full service product development for our customers.”
Tata Elxsi has a dedicated Automotive practice with over a decade of experience in product development and engineering services for automotive companies. Tata Elxsi’s association with global giants in the automotive industry enables it to offer custom, full life cycle product R&D services to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers.
Tata Elxsi is a premium member of AUTOSAR and associate member of Flexray consortium, and fully conversant with open and standardized automotive software architecture and advanced automotive control applications. Tata Elxsi’s focus areas in automotive electronics include Green and Conventional Powertrain, Body Electronics, Safety, Security, Chassis, and In Vehicle Infotainment.
About Automotive SPICE
The Automotive SPICE© Process Assessment Model has been developed under the Automotive SPICE© initiative by consensus of the car manufacturers within the Automotive Special Interest Group (SIG), a joint special interest group of The Procurement Forum and The SPICE UserGroup. The members of the Automotive SIG include AUDI AG, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Fiat Auto S.p.A., Ford Werke GmbH, Jaguar, Land Rover, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Volkswagen AG and Volvo Car Corporation. The Automotive SPICE© Process Assessment Model will be used to perform conformant assessments of the software process capability of automotive suppliers in accordance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 15504-2: 2003. The Automotive SPICE© Process Assessment Model is based on ISO/IEC 15504-5: 2006. For more information on Automotive SPICE, please visit: http://www.automotivespice.com/web/Introduction.html
About Tata Elxsi
TTata Elxsi (www.tataelxsi.com) is a technology-led creative and design services company and part of the $70 billion Tata Group. It has a global delivery footprint through offices and centers in India, the US, the UK, Japan and Germany. It is a company focused on delivering outsourced Product Design and R&D services and creative solutions to customers worldwide. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Tata Elxsi is a SEI CMMi Level 5 company, listed and traded on the Indian stock exchanges (NSE: TATAELXSI)
For more information please contact:
Tata Elxsi
Sanaj Natarajan
Tata Elxsi Ltd.
Ph: +91 80 2297 9250
Email: sanaj@tataelxsi.co.in |
