The first pilot of "Trustworthy Assessment" has been approved by an intacs^TM inspector successfully. 

The IA Division (Automotive Business), Neusoft Corporation, China has undergone a Maturity Level 3 assessment based on Automotive SPICE® v2.5 PAM and the Organizational Maturity Model given in ISO/IEC TR 15504-7. This assessment was of Class 1, Type-B acc.to ISO/IEC 15504-7, the results of which having been validated, and approved, by an independent inspector appointed by intacs^TM under the Trustworthy Assessment Scheme. intacs has issued a “Certificate of Achievement”.  The IA Division (Automotive Business), Neusoft Corporation, China is now the first organization to have achieved ML 3 under the Trustworthy Assessment Scheme.

working on the basis of the International Assessor Certification Scheme!

The intacs™ scheme is

• an independent and legally registered not-for-profit association
• with open and transparent operations in an honorary capacity
• and global and multilingual presence.

Objectives

Because of the need to improve on assessment performance, to reduce variations in the quality of assessment results and to make results more comparable, intacs™ was set up in response to requests from industry and international ISO/IEC 15504 experts. The main objective was to ensure high quality assessor qualification in the worldwide community for process assessment according to ISO/IEC 15504.

In order to reach these goals, intacs™

• sets training and certification standards for ISO/IEC 15504 assessors
• sets standards for maintaining assessor competence
• promotes assessment models and community interactions

Industry acceptance

intacs™ is the scheme accepted by the automotive industry and the HIS / VDA AK 13 (working group responsible for defining process requirements for car manufacturers and n-tier suppliers).