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During my career I have seen several instances, where safety and reliability are not properly understood and often interchanged with each other. Sometimes on a concept level or vehicle function design level if the engineer is not experienced with ISO26262 (like non-EU OEM for example) but knows the basics of the ASIL concept tends to…
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FTA is an analysis method that breaks down an undesired behavior of a system to different root causes and thus reveals systematic failures and weak points of the system. Just like FMEA, FTA also originates from aerospace engineering, hence is it highly utilized in safety critical engineering. One of the most significant differences between FMEA…
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The wind of change About a decade ago the whole automotive industry got stirred up by the “next big thing” that would increase work effectivity, streamline processes, while making the company future proof. Not too long after we recovered from the LEAN craze of the 90s, the new world-changing way of working was already knocking…
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Every time someone outside of the automotive industry asks me what do I work with, I find myself in a quite funny situation. Most of the people know what SW development is, they know that the people that create the apps on their phones are the SW developers. Everyone has seen a PCB probably, so…
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FMEA, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis originates from the 1940s and still today it’s widely used in all branches of product design and development. Many standards require an FMEA analysis to help eliminating potential hazards of a system/component or process. FMEA is basically a structured answer to the question: “What could go wrong?”. It is…