von Martina Riebenbauer | Jun 19, 2020 | Automotive, Medical Devices
A term we encounter regularly in safety related industries is state of the art. Top level documents in different industries e.g. ISO 26262 in automotive or the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) often sprinkle the term throughout with the expectation that organisations...
von Martina Riebenbauer | Jun 10, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety
In this blog we revisit the subject of dependent failures as defined in ISO 26262 (Part 11: Blog Post 3: Dependent Failure Analysis 2017) and more to the point how they can be quantified. Depending on the item under development the number of potential dependent...
von Martina Riebenbauer | Jun 5, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Reliability, Safety
In the second part of my blog series (Part 1 was about reliability prediction analysis) I want to focus on different failures and calculation models that can be used for your reliability prediction, as well as about the different standards and handbooks for...
von Martina Riebenbauer | Mai 20, 2020 | Functional Safety, Medical Devices
Your updated ‘cheat sheet’ to hazard analysis terminology in medical devices. (May 2020) We’ve already seen how a key part of ensuring functional safety is a robust risk management system. The first step in risk management is assessing risk; a key initial part of that...
von Martina Riebenbauer | Mai 13, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Qualitymanagement
In the first part of my new blog series I want to focus on one of the key elements when talking about reliability: prediction. Reliability prediction for electronic components or systems is a very important part of the development or design phase and provides help to...
