Verification vs Validation: Functional Safety Jul 31st, 2018 These processes are commonly confused for one another while each of them actually serves a very specific purpose. Verification… Learn More
What’s the Cost of Achieving Functional Safety? Sep 25th, 2017 Even though the supplier was very knowledgeable in this product, he had limited experience with functional safety engineering. During the… Learn More
Hardware Component Qualification: An ISO 26262 Offbeat Aug 9th, 2017 Hardware component qualification is an alternative means of compliance with ISO 26262-5. Every safety-related hardware component and part used within… Learn More
Sticking to the Basics: HARA Jul 12th, 2017 The HARA can easily become a tedious task to complete when the number of functions and scenarios increase. Below are… Learn More
Safe is Lean: Failing Faster with FMEAs Jun 26th, 2017 Take, for instance, the FMEA. It is probably a fair statement to say the typical automotive engineer would not associate… Learn More
Is your car safe against hacking? Mar 29th, 2017 Earlier, physical access was a prerequisite for any sort of tampering or malicious embedding of software. However, this has been… Learn More
Understanding the Level of Abstraction in ISO 26262 Jan 24th, 2017 To illustrate this, the qualitative analysis of requirements can be performed at multiple levels: A system level analysis to ensure… Learn More
Autonomous Vehicles: The Road Less Traveled Oct 26th, 2016 President Obama wrote in an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Right now, too many people die on our roads –… Learn More
The Science of Writing Technical Safety Requirements May 2nd, 2016 Yet there’s no set formula for writing them. The ISO26262 standard does not prescribe any specific method for specifying technical… Learn More