BorgWarner’s ASPICE assessment workload grew with its product portfolio until review demand outpaced engineering capacity — a constraint compounded by engineering data spread across multiple systems. Rather than absorb the gap by permanently adding headcount for highly repetitive work, the IT organization and Product Engineering worked the problem together from the start, co-innovating with Omnex to build the ASPICE Reviewer that used technology to enable business outcomes felt on the P&L.

The approach is what transfers. Engineering defined what a credible review must produce; IT built the foundation that makes it secure and scalable — on-premise deployment and controlled data paths that keep engineering IP inside, Architecture Review Board approval including the LLM enhancement, connectors into the Tier 1 toolchain (Jira, Polarion, SharePoint) so the capability lives inside the engineering workflow rather than beside it, and a first use case deliberately engineered as a reusable platform pattern. Structured, deterministic review logic produces consistent, traceable findings at machine speed, consolidated into a high-confidence output that a human in the loop reviews and owns. Shared commitment and alignment are what turned the idea into a governed production capability quickly.

Production is the starting line, not the finish. Doug Kulka, BorgWarner CIO, describes how the capability will expand as the AI and ASPICE spaces mature: from AI-assisted review, to engineering intelligence that connects knowledge across systems, to an agentic ecosystem in which autonomous agents collaborate across engineering domains. Each step introduces new multi-agentic functionality for the user community — digital team members taking on repetitive work at scale while engineers apply judgment. A journey, not a destination.