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Coming Soon: Unlocking Potential – Case Study on ZF’s ISO 5230 Third-Party Certification with TIMETOACT

By 2025-07-15News

The OpenChain Project will hold a webinar on the 29th of July 2025 to provide a case study on how ZF – one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers – collaborated with TIMETOACT to obtain third-party certification for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230.

2025-07-29 @ 07:00 UTC / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CEST / 15:00 CST / 16:00 KST + JST

Join at the start time using this link:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/91433079580?password=a677a4f4-2af5-4453-8ec9-07dcc28f9656

Abstract:

This case study is suitable for organizations new to the OpenChain standards, organizations in the process of adopting the standards, or organizations reviewing how others met this milestone in open source process management. It will be structured as a series of short section presentations that provide:

  • A brief introduction to ISO/IEC 5230
  • The importance of ISO/IEC in the automotive industry
  • ZF’s certification journey
  • Forming an OSPO
  • Steps taken to accomplish ISO/IEC 5230 certification
  • Challenges faced
  • Role of TIMETOACT in the certification process
  • Gap analysis with TIMETOACT and ZF
  • How ZF used OpenChain and InnerSource Commons resources
  • Lessons learned
  • Closing thoughts

More About Our Webinars:

This event is part of the overarching OpenChain Project Webinar Series. Our series highlights knowledge from throughout the global OpenChain eco-system. Participants are discussing approaches, processes and activities from their experience, providing a free service to increase shared knowledge in the supply chain. Our goal, as always, is to increase trust and therefore efficiency. No registration or costs involved. This is user companies producing great informative content for their peers.

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This OpenChain Webinar will be broadcast on 2025-07-29.