by Alastair Walker | Aug 16, 2019 | Automotive, Functional Safety
Google analytics is a wonderful thing. Since we published our series of blogs on ISO 26262 Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) at the end of 2017, this series has been a clear leader in our rankings, hence this has brought us to a fourth blog on SEooC and since the...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 23, 2019 | Medical Devices, Quality Management
Welcome back to this final instalment of this three part blog series on Quality Management and supporting processes. One of the critical components of any quality management system today is the need to develop a robust risk management programme. As such, this final...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 17, 2019 | Quality Management
Welcome to the second of this three part series of blogs related to Quality Management and supporting processes, where we will take a look at another “companion” document created to help businesses navigate the implementation of a management system that meets the...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 9, 2019 | Quality Management
Welcome to the first in another three part series of blogs related to Quality Management and supporting processes. My name is Stuart Hardie, a Quality Management Consultant with Lorit Consultancy, and this series of blogs will cover a few examples of “companion”...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 4, 2019 | Automotive, Events, News
Last week Alastair Walker and Dijaz Maric attended the VDA Automotive Sys Conference in Potsdam. We were welcomed with wonderful weather in a beautiful city and an interesting conference programme with sessions and key notes from a huge number of international...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 2, 2019 | Automotive, Quality Management
In the final part of this blog series, we are talking about the supplier management according to IATF 16949 and reference to external development processes. Since a large number of subsystems are often created by suppliers, an efficient supplier management is...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jun 19, 2019 | Automotive, Quality Management
In the first part of this blog series we talked about the importance of a quality management system according to standard, IATF 16949 which was aimed at development service providers. In the second part of this blog series we want to show further justifications for...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jun 12, 2019 | Events, News
Like last year Lorit Consultancy will again be part of the VDA Automotive Sys Conference in Potsdam, Germany from 26 to 28 June 2019. We are happy to announce that Alastair Walker, Owner and Consultant at Lorit Consultancy, will talk about “SOTIF – The Human Factor”...
by Martina Riebenbauer | May 20, 2019 | Automotive, Quality Management
Like for most suppliers in the automotive industry, car manufacturers (OEMs) require from electronics suppliers to deliver their products according to the IATF 16949 Automotive Quality Management System Standard. With the new edition of the Automotive Standard, IATF...
by Martina Riebenbauer | May 13, 2019 | Automotive, Safety
In our final part of this three-part blog on the recently published Publicly Available Specification ISO/PAS 21448:2019 ‘Road vehicles – Safety of the intended functionality’ (SOTIF) we focus on the topic of how SOTIF approaches human factors and compare this...
