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Defining functional safety in today's systems

Like you, we deeply care about the safety and security of our loved ones as they live, move and interact in a world dominated by highly complex and interconnected electronics and software. We have made it our company’s core mission to educate and support industry partners like you to meet state-of-the-art industry standards like ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 to create a responsibly safe and secure world together.

Every functional safety or cybersecurity risk management and compliance journey is different. Each one is shaped around an organization’s starting point, circumstances, constraints and goals. Therefore, we will approach your program with an open mind to get a holistic understanding of your ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 risk landscape by evaluating product development processes, product design artifacts, stakeholder interactions, and your near and long-term goals. Subsequently, we will work collaboratively with your team to develop technical solutions and counter-measures to meet these goals.

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We won’t just stop there – we will be highly committed to helping you strengthen and innovate your product development processes, using lessons learned and methods developed together during our collaboration.

We perform a detailed Gap Analysis of our Client’s development processes and products against ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 for a specific program.

We perform a detailed Gap Analysis of our Client’s development processes and products against their desired compliance goals for a specific program.

Discover

We develop a practical action plan with our Client and work collaboratively to address gaps with knowledge sharing, technical solutions and counter measures to effectively achieve program goals.

Prepare

Respond

We equip and work closely with our Client to prioritize and proactively address mission-critical and immediate risks that are discovered during the gap analysis.

Respond

Optimize

We create lasting impacts for you by helping integrate process improvements, technical solutions and lessons learned for your program to optimize your product development framework.

Optimize

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Gap Analysis

We offer a comprehensive gap analysis workshop to evaluate your product development processes, product design, technical documentation and compliance arguments against your desired compliance goals, even when they involve multiple concurrent industry standards like ISO 26262, ISO 21448 and ISO/SAE 21434. We conduct the gap analysis in three steps:

1. Discover:

This step allows us to get a foundational understanding of your product development processes and interfaces with external stakeholders/ partners with the help of a multiple-choice ‘discovery questionnaire’.

2. Preliminary Gap Analysis:

Your responses to the discovery questionnaire enables us to organize an effective virtual gap analysis workshop with your key management stakeholders to get a deeper understanding of your organization’s circumstances, challenges and goals.

3. Final Gap Analysis:

The final step involves a highly tailored “due diligence” style gap analysis workshop with your engineering team to get a comprehensive understanding of the maturity of your product development processes, product design/ technical documentation and compliance evidence against the expectations in standards and regulations to meet your organization and/or program-specific compliance goals.

Within two weeks of completing this step, we will present our gap analysis report with findings and recommendations in presentation format, along with an executive summary. We will highlight mission-critical and immediate risks, if any, to enable a proactive response from our client.

Independent Confirmation Reviews

You are developing a complex, interconnected, safety-critical automotive product.  Compliance with ISO 26262:2018, the state-of-the-art functional safety (FuSa) standard, is essential for your company to win business, build trust with your customers and cement long-term success in the market.

The ISO 26262 standard, like many other technical standards, does not provide prescriptive guidance and checklists. It can be very resource-intensive to navigate compliance as a development team, let alone build an independent organization to perform confirmation reviews. At SRES, we deeply understand complex automotive electronic systems and can successfully step in as your independent confirmation reviewers and ease your path towards compliance. 

Leveraging deep expertise in these standards and a proven track record of conducting impartial and independent reviews, we can help you confirm you are on the right path. We ensure your key work products are aligned with your functional safety objectives before you proceed to a formal functional safety audit or assessment. By mitigating your risks early, you can accelerate your time-to-market with the timely completion of your safety artifacts during development.

We can support confirmation reviews for all work products in ISO 26262-2:2018, Clause 6.4.10, up to the most stringent ‘ASIL D’ level of integrity and the highest ‘I3’ level of independence, including:

  1. Impact analysis at the item level
  2. Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
  3. Safety plan
  4. Functional Safety Concept
  5. Technical Safety Concept
  6. Integration and test strategy
  7. Safety validation specification
  8. Safety analyses and dependent failure analyses
    • Safety Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
    • Safety Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
    • Failure Mode Effects and Diagnostics Analysis (FMEDA)
    • Common Cause Fault (CCF) Analysis
    • Freedom From Interference (FFI) Analysis
  9. Safety case

Knowledge and Competence

We are deeply passionate about creating a lasting impact on your organization by sharing our knowledge and practical experience, and providing high-level overview and in-depth advanced training courses to their leadership, engineering, and production teams so that they can serve as well-informed change agents to transform and optimize their organization’s product development processes, product design, and decision making for success.
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Strategic Technical Consulting

We bring decades of hands-on automotive product development experience and an in-depth understanding of automotive standards to benefit your program. We offer a combination of safety and cybersecurity management support, process definitions and tailoring guidance, and most importantly, collaborative development of high quality technical work products to meet the demands of state-of-the-art automotive standards, including but not limited to, ISO 26262 (Automotive Functional Safety), ISO 21448 (Safety Of The Intended Functionality), ISO 21434 (Automotive Cybersecurity), and ISO/PAS 8800 (Safety and Artificial Intelligence in Automotive).

We are highly motivated to get compliance right the first time for your organization and your program, and to build up your team along the way for self-sufficiency on future programs. Whether you are a well established organization or a new entrant into the automotive industry, we are committed to making you competitive in the near-term and resilient in the long-term with consulting services across three pillars:

  1. Process excellence
  2. Responsibly safe and secure product development
  3. Content and tools enablement

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