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Engineering Excellence

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.

What We Do

Build capability. Improve engineering performance.

Independent assessment, practical improvement and development across the complete engineering V-cycle.

Assess — Independent Engineering Assessment

Independent assessment of engineering capability, including ASPICE where relevant, to establish the current state and the improvement priorities.

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Improve — Engineering Capability Improvement

Practical improvement of engineering processes, from requirements and systems engineering through verification, validation and supporting quality processes.

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Develop — People & Organizational Development

Training, coaching and facilitation that help teams turn defined processes into consistent engineering practice and stronger capability.

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Why Schouten-Quality

Inside 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.

About the Founder

Gerard Schouten

Former Engineering Quality Manager · Founder & Principal Consultant

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Free Resource

ASPICE Capability Checklist

Assessment is only the starting point. The objective is stronger capability, predictable execution and better products.

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