Engineering Excellence
Built on Experience
Helping engineering organizations build engineering capability, improve performance and deliver better products — grounded in a career spent inside aerospace and automotive engineering.
Engineering organizations do not need more bureaucracy. They need practical improvements that help engineers develop better products.
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Schouten-Quality helps engineering leaders understand where their engineering organization stands, identify what is holding performance back, and turn weaknesses into sustainable improvement.
With more than 44 years of experience in high-technology product development, Gerard Schouten brings an inside perspective on engineering—combining engineering quality, process improvement and management experience.
The focus is on the challenges engineering managers face every day: improving quality, reducing risk, increasing predictability and enabling teams to perform effectively without adding unnecessary process overhead.
- 44+ years in high-technology product development
- 50+ Automotive SPICE® assessments
- Six Sigma Black Belt, 20+ years
Build capability. Improve engineering performance.
Independent assessment, practical improvement and development across the complete engineering V-cycle.
Assess — Independent Engineering Assessment
Effective improvement starts with an objective understanding of the current situation.
Learn moreImprove — Engineering Capability Improvement
Engineering capability is built through continuous improvement—not through compliance alone.
Learn moreDevelop — People & Organizational Development
Engineering capability is ultimately built by people.
Learn moreInside engineering. Not just inside a framework.
A career in engineering and quality across aerospace and automotive.
Extensive ASPICE assessment experience across production programmes.
Practical improvement grounded in operational engineering reality.
Independent perspective from someone who has led engineering quality from the inside.
Focus on capability, verification, validation and end-to-end engineering quality.
Gerard Schouten
Senior Automotive SPICE® Consultant
ASPICE Capability Checklist
Assessment is only the starting point. The objective is stronger capability, predictable execution and better products.
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