Tata Elxsi set to get Auto SPICE accreditation

Tata Elxsi – the leading embedded product design engineering company in Technopark, is planning to get Automotive SPICE accreditation by September 2009. R. Natarajan, vice president, automotive and aerospace practice and centre head of the Tata Elxsi’s development centre at Technopark here,  told that such standardised assessments would become mandatory for suppliers in the automotive industry in future.

Automotive SPICE is a common framework for the assessment of suppliers in the automotive industry through the publication of the Process Assessment Model and Process Reference Model.Tata Elxsi had already joined the FlexRay Consortium in 2005 and AUTOSAR consortium in 2006. The FlexRay Consortium was formed to drive the adoption of the FlexRay communication system as the de facto industry standard for high-speed communication networks for automotive applications.

AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) is an open and standardised automotive software architecture, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers, suppliers and tool developers. As a premium member of the consortium, Tata Elxsi actively participates in body electronics and specification validation activities for AUTOSAR.

“The oil crisis and the current recession have increased focus on fuel efficiency and hybrid technologies. Tata Elxsi is currently working for the realisation of a dream of viable hybrid cars by the end of 2010,’’ he said.

The Technopark Development Centre, which started with 10 engineers in one k sq ft in Technopark, has grown into a company with 700 engineers operating in a space of 67.5 k sq ft.The company has,  in fact, recruited 150 freshers to the Technopark centre this year, he said.

At the all-India level, the company recruited 650-700 freshers last year. In fact, the company was one of the few companies which honoured all its commitments to graduates who had been shortlisted last year, Natarajan said. He said that the company is also partnering in the development of a diesel engine management system for a luxury car manufacturer in Europe.

source:expressbuzz