Post Pandemic Era: Future of the Automotive Online Assessments

The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future

“…Online assessments [2][3][4]6,12 require the use and combination of advanced infrastructure. Figure 1 below describes the typical online assessment setup.…”

“…Even if an assessment claims to be onsite, parts of the project or assessors might still be online. Some recommendations for online and hybrid assessments based on the referenced study 2 and based on the experience of online assessments in the SOQRATES 1 working 3-6 groups are listed below.…”

“…In this paper, the results of a working group 1 and a statistical study by a large company 2 are discussed to give an outlook to industry and the assessor community about how the topic of online assessments will develop in the future. It describes the research method, the identified reasons for using online assessments, the typical assessment setup, and the results from the statistical study, and finally it gives a summary and an outlook.…”

“…Best Practice Statement 2 by SOQRATES Group: The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an Accelerator of the Approach to manage assessment distributed in a complete online setup. [2][3][4][5][6][7] Originally in the Automotive SPICE, 8,9 VDA Guidelines 10 in section 8.3.1 the performance of online assessments were considered to be not accepted. After COVID-19 was striking in April 2020 iNTACS published a Guideline for Remote Process Assessments, 11 supporting online assessments during COVID-19.…”

“…Guidelines and best practices for online assessments were published in EuroSPI 2019, 4 EuroSPI 2020, 3 and EuroSPI 2021. 2,6 And after the COVID-19 threat was decreasing in 2022 still the online assessments maintained to be an accepted approach (in fact for most assessments).…”