Robert BOSCH central quality division runs a BOSCH wide server, and assessors from all sites can use/access it. In divisions like BOSCH AS first a Raspberry server is used in the local assessment, then the assessment is exported and imported to the central server. Most use the central serer directly with a https access. Each business unit has an organizational account and each assessor has an assessor account. Automotive SPICE assessments in automotive steering, trainer in cooperation with central quality assurance for automotive spice.
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ZF Friedrichshafen AG
ZF Friedrichshafen AG uses a number of laptop licenses, and runs a central server supported by the IT in the C division in Schweinfurt. ZF has used the portal since many years and assessments since approx. 2007 are maintained in the server. Recently Raspberry servers have been provided for field testing to selected people in ZF. automotive spice assessments in e-division, i-division, chassis-division, cybersecurity training, strategic improvement programme coaching for automotive spice
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Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
HELLA uses a corporate wide portal, also applies laptop licenses and in assessments recently the Raspberry portable solutions have been used. All assessors (internal and external) are recommended to use the Capability Adviser infrastructure. automotive spice assessments, acting as SQIL
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Marquardt Group
MARQUARDT uses a corporate wide portal, also applies laptop licenses. Assessors (internal and external) are recommended to use the Capability Adviser infrastructure.
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AVL List GmbH
Automotive SPICE Assessor courses, partner in soqrates working group, training of trainers in functional safety and cybersecurity, partnering training body in EuroSPI Academy, workshop lead in eurospi conference which is managed by ISCN
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KTM AG
functional safety and cybersecurity courses, partner in soqrates working group, functional safety assessments, winning KTM quality award in 2016, keynotes at Eurospi conference which is managed by ISCN
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Magna
Automotive SPICE training and assessments, functional safety assessments, improvement coaching, functional safety coaching, partner in soqrates working group
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MAHLE GmbH
establishment of quality system for automotive SPICE, functional safety training, functional saftey coaching, coaching in automotive SPICE, presenter at Eurospi conference which is managed by ISCN
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Our Team
Dr. Richard Messnarz Director of ISCN and Principal Assessor
has a PhD in Technical Mathematics and Informatics. He is a lead researcher and an Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor working on software process improvement based on ISO norms since 30 years. h-index: 29 | i10-index: 89
Dr. Richard Messnarz has studied Technical Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Technology Graz.
He made his PhD at TU Graz, and he worked as a researcher and lecturer at TU Graz 1990 - 1997 before he left to ISCN.
Dr. Richard Messnarz is an ISO 15504 and Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor and for the last 30 years he has been acting as consultant and/or trainer
for leading companies like ZF Friedrichshafen AG, BOSCH Automotive Steering, BOSCH Automotive Electronics, BOSCH DGS, Continental Automotive, AVL, MAGNA,
RENESAS, KTM Motorsport, HELLA, LEAR, Automotive Lighting, T-Systems and many more.
Dipl.-Ing. Damjan Ekert Software Project Manager and Principal Assessor
has a master's degree in Telematics/Informatics (TU Graz). Damjan is an experienced software developer while also working on process improvement assessments being an ASPICE Principal Assessor. h-index: 14 | i10-index: 20
Tobias Danmayr Senior Software Development Engineer
studied physics at KFU Graz and informatics at TU Graz. He is an experienced software developer working on state-of-the-art back-end solutions. Tobias is the lead developer for the Capability Adviser. h-index: 3 | i10-index: 3
Tobias Danmayr is a senior software engineer and Automotive SPICE Provisional Assessor at ISCN and responsible for the Skill-Portal, EurpoSPI Website and
development of the Capability Adviser Assessment Tool. He is employed at ISCN GesmbH since 2016.
Laura Aschbacher MA Marketing and Design Lead
has a master's degree in Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction Design at FH Joanneum and studies Digital Transformation at TU Graz. Laura is an experienced interface designer and marketing as well as design expert. h-index: 4 | i10-index: 3
Laura Aschbacher studied Information Design at University of Applied Sciences Joanneum, Graz Austria. Her Bachelor Thesis was about Design Project Planning.
She also acted as ISCN project manager for the EuroSPI App development which was first presented at EuroSPI 2018, to have a mobile application for
conference management.She designed the new Capability Adviser interface, the new EuroSPI Logo, the EuroSPI App, the new exhibition stand and package to
sell Capability adviser etc.
Jonathan Breitenthaler BSc Software Development Engineer
has a bachelor's degree in Telematics (TU Graz) and works as a back-end software developer for the Capability Adviser. Jonathan together with Tobias is in charge of the Capability Adviser technical support. h-index: 0 | i10-index: 0
Jonathan's description is coming soon.
ETH Dipl.-Ing. Bernhardt Steger Competent Assessor and Consultant
has a master's degree in informatics (ETH Zurich) and is part of the ISCN Group since 2012. Bernhardt is an Automotive SPICE Competent Assessor working on assessments with companies such as BOSCH and MAGNA together with ISCN. h-index: 3 | i10-index: 1
After his informatics study at the ETH Zurich Dipl.-Ing. Bernhardt Steger has been working 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
(including the integration into Autosar). He has been SW project lead for X-Drive at MAGNA Powertrain till 2009.
He joined the ISCN Group in 2012. He is an Automotive SPICE Competent Assessor, and together wih ISCN he worked in Projects at ZF Friedrichshafen AG,
ZF/BOSCH Lenksysteme, BOSCH Central Division, BOSCH DGS, MAGNA, VARROC, etc. and acted as a trainer for Automotive SPICE Introduction courses.
ISCN co-developed with Mr Steger a mechatronic project management method and tool set used in ZF/BOSCH Lenksysteme.
Also a project management tool interfacing RTC and MS Project has been developed for VARROC.
Dr. Andreas Riel Innovation and Digitalization Expert
has a master's degree in informatics (TU Graz) and is a lead researcher and trainer / assessor for industry. Andreas is therefore commited to linking industry and university for the future of innovation and technology. h-index: 22 | i10-index: 60
Dr Andreas Riel has more than 20 years industry experience. He was innovation manager at AVL List Graz. Then he moved to Grenoble Institute of Technology,France and
became the coordinating manager of a FP7 project for innovation in manufacturing, which resulted in the foundation of EMIRacle. Andreas Riel joined the ISCN Group in 2012.
Andreas is a Competent Automotive SPICE Assessor and an ECQA Certified Functional Safety Manager and ECQA certified trainer.
He worked with ISCN in Projects at ZF Friedrichshafen AG, ZF/BOSCH Lenksysteme, KTM Motorsport, etc.
Dr. Georg Macher MBA Lead Researcher and E-learning Expert
has a PhD in informatics (TU Graz) and studied economics at WU Wien. Georg is a senior scientist at the technical informatics insitute of TU Graz and collaborates with ISCN continuously for research purposes. h-index: 20 | i10-index: 46
Dr Georg Macher is a senior scientist at the technical informatics insitute of the University of Technology Graz. ISCN is collaborating with the TU Graz and staff
acts in ISCN Projects (Automotive SPICE and functional safety related work) on the market. Dr Macher is a specialist in functional safety and cybersecurity.
He is an Automotive SPICE Assessor, and he is an ECQA Certified Functional Safety Manager and ECQA certified trainer.
He continues the work which began with Dr. Kreiner who worked with ISCN in projects at ZF Friedrichshafen AG, BOSCH AS, RENESAS, TTTech, AVL, etc.
Dr. Svatopluk Štolfa Competent Assessor and Safety / Cybersecurity Expert
has a PhD in Informatics at VSB TU Ostrava and works as a Competent Assessor together with ISCN for software process improvement in the field of safety and cybersecurity. h-index: 11 | i10-index: 16
Dr. Svatopluk Štolfa's description is coming soon.
Dr. Richard Messnarz Director of ISCN and Principal Assessor
has a PhD in Technical Mathematics and Informatics. He is a lead researcher and an Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor working on software process improvement based on ISO norms since 30 years. h-index: 29 | i10-index: 89
Dr. Richard Messnarz has studied Technical Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Technology Graz.
He made his PhD at TU Graz, and he worked as a researcher and lecturer at TU Graz 1990 - 1997 before he left to ISCN.
Dr. Richard Messnarz is an ISO 15504 and Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor and for the last 30 years he has been acting as consultant and/or trainer
for leading companies like ZF Friedrichshafen AG, BOSCH Automotive Steering, BOSCH Automotive Electronics, BOSCH DGS, Continental Automotive, AVL, MAGNA,
RENESAS, KTM Motorsport, HELLA, LEAR, Automotive Lighting, T-Systems and many more.
Dipl.-Ing. Damjan Ekert Software Project Manager and Principal Assessor
has a master's degree in Telematics/Informatics (TU Graz). Damjan is an experienced software developer while also working on process improvement assessments being an ASPICE Principal Assessor. h-index: 14 | i10-index: 20
Tobias Danmayr Senior Software Development Engineer
studied physics at KFU Graz and informatics at TU Graz. He is an experienced software developer working on state-of-the-art back-end solutions. Tobias is the lead developer for the Capability Adviser. h-index: 3 | i10-index: 3
Tobias Danmayr is a senior software engineer and Automotive SPICE Provisional Assessor at ISCN and responsible for the Skill-Portal, EurpoSPI Website and
development of the Capability Adviser Assessment Tool. He is employed at ISCN GesmbH since 2016.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. — Thomas Carruthers
ISCN has been formed originally based on research results from TU Graz (1994) and most experts of the company are still lecturing at the universities, are participating in actual leading research projects, and are supporting in series development projects in automotive. The experts are either 90% industry and 10% lecturing, or if they are still fully working at the university they are from applied research.
This way ISCN cooperates with
University of Technology Graz, Austria
University of Applied Sciences Joenneum, Graz Austria
Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Experts in ISCN have a research profile with knowledgeable h-index and i10-index and work in automotive research projects.
All experts working in ISCN teans have technical background and are not from a non-automotive field of study.
We're also managing an international conference for 26 years, the EuroSPI conference, in automotive topics with service, system and software improvement best practice aswell as managing a working party of leading Tier 1 in Germany and Austria cooperating, since 2003, on best practices for cybersecurity, functional safety, Automotive SPICE and traceability called SOQRATES.
The best practices from both EuroSPI and SOQRATES are integrated into our training and coaching programs for industry.
Our Credo
Involve me - ISCN follows a strategy that we motivate and convince engineers to e.g.
follow and use Automotive SPICE because we are engineers and we can convince engineers with our practical approach. Spice me up - we can access a knowledge base of best practices which help to really achieve a higher SPICE level when working with our team. Consult me - we do not just place a person in your company but we rather elaborate a real working example together with your team and
coach the team until your team has the capability ad also continues by themselves. Network me - we can connect you to real experience networks such as EuroSPI and SOQRATES.