Sypris Electronics has achieved the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 rating

CMMI is an internationally recognised measure of an organisation’s engineering process maturity. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a US Department of Defense funded research centre at Carnegie Mellon University whose main purpose is to help organisations make measured improvements in their engineering capabilities, developed the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

CMMI provides an industry standard model for developing and appraising an organisation’s engineering development process.

The CMMI ranks organisations according to a hierarchy of five process maturity levels, with a set of standards associated with each of the five levels.

A Level 3 rating means that an organisation has defined and institutionalised the use of standard organisational processes.

Sypris Electronics engineering organisation underwent a Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) Class A Appraisal led by Borland, an SEI-authorised Lead Appraiser.

The CMMI appraisal team, comprised of both Borland and Sypris Electronics personnel, reviewed more than 180 organisational process assets covering programme management, systems and software engineering disciplines and reviewed both direct and indirect evidence of 18 process areas across multiple appraisal projects.

The appraisal projects gave 35 presentations to the CMMI appraisal team and participated in interviews.

The involvement of process engineers, systems engineers, software engineers and program management from the different projects were critical in achieving the CMMI Level 3 goal.

‘This achievement is the culmination of a four year effort that demonstrates our engineering maturity and the value Sypris Electronics places on process improvement and support to our customers’, stated Bob Sanders, President of Sypris Electronics.