von Martina Riebenbauer | Sep 1, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
In the first part of this blog (Software Safety Analysis Part 1) we looked at requirements management and traceability as key activities in the reliable implementation of software projects. In this part of the blog we look at the importance of a qualitative overview...
von Kirstin McKellar | Aug 19, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
A hot topic for many years has been the definition of the best safety (risk) analysis technique for analysing potential software malfunctions. Like many discussions of this nature there is no clear answer and the decision is often application and complexity dependent....
von Kirstin McKellar | Aug 5, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices
The challenges of safety-related continuous delivery In our previous blog we looked at the way the medical device sector is evolving. Specifically, we explored why this can lend itself to support the activities of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery...
von Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 24, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
One of the biggest challenges as a functional safety consultancy, is marrying up modern software methods and techniques with safety related requirements, and at the same time trying not to be over restrictive with the methods and processes and the advantages these can...
von Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 9, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Reliability
Welcome to the third and final part of the reliability blog series. I ‘ve already written about reliability prediction analysis and focused on different failures and calculation models. In this last part of the blog, I will continue to discuss the different...
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...
