by Martina Riebenbauer | Feb 26, 2021 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
In the final part of this blog series, we take look at some of the key challenges facing artificial intelligence (AI) in the automotive sector. With the steady push toward autonomous driving and many of the challenges identified along the way, the world is beginning...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Feb 19, 2021 | Medical Devices, Safety
In the second part of this blog series, we are not going to be talking about dollar bills or the scene from the film ‘A Miracle on 34th Street’, rather looking at the level of autonomy trusted to artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical device sector. ...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Feb 11, 2021 | Automotive, Medical Devices, Reliability, Safety
In this series of blogs, we turn our attention to the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical and automotive industries, but first in this initial part of the blog we look at some of the key challenges in implementing safe and reliable AI....
by Martina Riebenbauer | Feb 4, 2021 | Automotive, Events, Medical Devices
Visit us at the DIGITAL embedded world 2021 We are happy to announce that this March will be our 4th time at the embedded world. Embedded world is the leading international trade fair for embedded system technologies and takes place as a digital event from 01...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jan 14, 2021 | Automotive, Quality Management
Among other things, a development process needs clearly defined, well-planned project management. In the first part of this blog series, we talked about the APQP approach, but we would also like to introduce the alternative, the VDA maturity level model. VDA...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Dec 15, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
While searching for a quote for the title of the final part of the blog series, we came across many inspirational quotes from philosophers and thought leaders, regarding ultimately one of the key areas for any guidance literature on safety. What has gone wrong before...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Dec 10, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices
In the first part of this blog series (IEC 61508 The mother of all safety standards), we gave a brief introduction to IEC 61508 and additionally we mentioned the influence IEC 61508 has had on various other safety standards. In this second part of the blog we look at...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Dec 1, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Safety
In our latest blog series, we turn our attention to the standard that has influenced safety in many industries and the relevant standards defined for them. As a prelude to new Lorit Consultancy training courses and new team members joining us in 2021, we focus on IEC...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Nov 26, 2020 | Automotive, Quality Management, Uncategorized
The IATF 16949 standard defines the different processes of a quality management system in a company. It refers to various other standards in order to be able to implement the individual processes. In this blog series, I will explain which standards are necessary to...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Nov 12, 2020 | Automotive, Medical Devices, Quality Management
In 1989, on November 9th, the first World Quality Day was organized by the Chartered Quality Institute in London. Since then, the World Quality Day is celebrated annually on the second Thursday in November. But what can you do in a company on a World Quality Day? The...