by 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...
by 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...
by 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...
by 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...
by 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...
