Advent desires to assist automakers/manufacturers and suppliers in improving information management and design processes. Our recommended improvements are designed to achieve significant cost-saving, reduced litigative exposure and improved information management. Advent will provide cost effective solutions to:

• Design requirement basis retrievability
• Record retrieval
• Knowledge base retention
• Software configuration control
• Hardware / system configuration control
• Functional / compatibility improvement

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Advent desires to be the premier supplier of cost effective, value oriented engineering design validation services to automotive Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers at the engineering manager and project engineer level. The objective of design validation is to identify and correct design deficiencies up front or in parallel with the design process AND promote and improve overall product reliability. Such services would include:

• System interaction evaluations
• Fault tree analyses
• Failure mode and effect analyses
• Test plan development and result evaluations
• Component life assessments
• Software validation

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Advent desires to assist automotive Tier 1 through Tier 3 suppliers in developing, refining, and maintaining ISO 9000/QS 9000 Quality Assurance Programs. Advent's expertise takes advantage of lessons learned from other industries to provide long term cost saving improvement solutions to new and existing quality assurance programs. Improvement opportunities will be in the areas of:

• Performance vs. prescriptive auditing
• Procedure format, content, and configuration control
• Records management
• Lead auditor training and direct participation

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Advent desires to offer consulting services to automotive legal support groups in the areas of litigative support and long term risk reduction from prior "lessons learned." Areas of litigative risk continue to grow as vehicles increase in number and complexity. Advent wishes to assist in minimizing risk by closing the loop on past "lessons learned" and design approaches used by future platform design teams by:

• Analysis of problems and failure data
• Expert witness
• Adding relevant structure to the design process through tracking of design requirements bases
• Formalizing and prioritizing design criteria into seven categories:
  • Safety litigation
  • Functional requirements
  • Regulations and industry standard requirements
  • Customer survey
  • Market approval
  • Nice to have
  • Maintainability

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