by Martina Riebenbauer | Jun 5, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Reliability, Safety
In the second part of my blog series (Part 1 was about reliability prediction analysis) I want to focus on different failures and calculation models that can be used for your reliability prediction, as well as about the different standards and handbooks for...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Mar 19, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
One topic that has cropped up time and time again in ISO 26262 is the discussion on hardware parts and can/should requirements be assigned to them? Section 7.4.1.5 in ISO 26262-5:2018 gives the statement ‘The traceability between hardware safety requirements and...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Nov 27, 2019 | Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety, Training
Complying with regulatory requirements is a daily activity for software developers in the medical device industry. With the requirements of IEC 62304 on the life cycle for the development of the medical software and software within medical devices certain...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Nov 12, 2019 | Automotive, Events, News, Safety
Last week the Austrian Lorit Consultancy Team, Alastair Walker, Dijaz Maric and Martina Riebenbauer spent a whole day at the automotiv.2019 conference in Linz, Austria. This year it was all about getting connected, autonomous driving and what the future brings, which...
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...
by Martina Riebenbauer | May 2, 2019 | Automotive, Safety
In the second part of our three-part blog series on the recently published Publicly Available Specification ISO/PAS 21448:2019 ‘Road vehicles – Safety of the intended functionality’ (SOTIF) we focus on the workflow and work products. The key initial work product...
