by Linda Stein | Feb 14, 2019 | Quality Management
In this final blog on the benefits of being accredited to ISO 9001:2015, we will discuss Risk Based Thinking (RBT) – a core element of ISO 9001:2015 – and the benefits it can bring to an organisation. The only logical way to start a discussion on RBT is to...
by Linda Stein | Feb 5, 2019 | Quality Management
Welcome to the second in this 3 part blog series on the benefits of being accredited to ISO 9001:2015. We are going to look at the 7 Quality Management Principles on which ISO 9001:2015 is based and what benefits they can bring to an organisation. We will take a look...
by Linda Stein | Jan 29, 2019 | Quality Management
In society today there are so many issues that could lead to the success or failure of an organisation. The key to weathering these issues is to have an organisation with a set of strong foundations and the ability to perform self-evaluation and continual improvement....
by Linda Stein | Jan 17, 2019 | Events
We will be attending embedded world, the leading international exhibition for embedded systems, in Nuremberg from 26 to 28 February 2019. The Lorit Consultancy team will be on stand 4A-309 to speak with organisations who are looking for Functional Safety and...
by Linda Stein | Jan 16, 2019 | Automotive, Safety
In the first part of our blog we looked at the process of evaluating hardware elements in ISO 26262. In part 2 we will look at the three classes of hardware element and how the process of their evaluation relates to ISO 26262-5:2018. Operating...
by Linda Stein | Jan 10, 2019 | Automotive, Safety
ISO 26262-8:2018, Section 13 – Evaluation of hardware elements – aims to address the safety compliance of commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware devices (device we are using to avoid confusion with other terminology). One area here that could be enhanced...
by Linda Stein | Nov 1, 2018 | Rail, Safety
In the final part of our “Keeping Safety on track in the Rail Sector” blog, we are looking beyond the railway functional safety standardization framework to see how other safety relevant industries are addressing functional safety aspects. The series of railway RAMS...
by Linda Stein | Oct 23, 2018 | News
We are delighted to announce that Lorit Consultancy GmbH was founded on 17th October 2018 in Salzburg. Our growing team enables us to provide additional resource to support our customer base from both our sites in Scotland and now in the Mozartstadt in Austria. Our...
by Linda Stein | Oct 2, 2018 | Automotive, Safety
It’s been a long time coming, but the eagerly awaited second edition of ISO 26262 will soon be released. One of the topics that has led to much discussion over the years, since the first edition was released, is the usage of the tables defining methods and techniques...
by Linda Stein | Sep 19, 2018 | Rail, Safety
In our previous blog, “Keeping Safety on track in the Rail Sector”, we looked at the benefits of marrying the Cone of Uncertainty concept with the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) lifecycle. This enables us to assess more accurately the...
