Four automotive functional safety mistakes that must be avoided

Find the Latest SoC Solutions
for... Automotive... IoT... Security... Audio... Video

www.edn.com, Sept. 23, 2021 – 

Automotive stakeholders such as OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers must observe functional safety (FuSa) as a practice across their organization. Easier said than done, implementing ISO 26262 compliant FuSa comes with its own set of challenges. And these challenges, when not addressed, lead to project management mistakes that burden the project with delays and cost escalation. The mismanagement instances can be related to an overall lack of safety awareness in the organization or poor coordination among cross-functional teams.

In an automotive ecosystem, the negligence committed by one stakeholder trickles down to others as well. If the Tier-1 supplier does not perform hazard analysis in an extensive manner, the architecture design might turn out to be riddled with unidentified hazards and associated risks. Similarly, working on a safety-critical project with resources that have not been trained on ISO 26262 standard comes with its own perils. In this article, we have compiled a set of such FuSa management mistakes that must be avoided at all costs.

Lack of safety awareness in the organization

Functional safety is not restricted to the safety team working on a safety-critical automotive project. From developers and testing engineers to project managers, each team member must be aware of the ISO 26262 standard and its guidelines. Let's look at some of the FuSa mistakes that are committed when there is an overall lack of safety awareness in the organization.

click here to read more...

 Back