Functional safety
Many new applications and systems within the automotive industry involve safety, directly or indirectly. The design of safety relevant applications, however, requires more than just a smart design compared to traditional systems. The design of safety related applications needs a methodology which can produce "a documented body of evidence that provides a convincing and valid argument that a system is adequately safe for a given application in a given environment" [Adelard].
The methodology for functional safety is a question of how to mitigate risks (risk assignment) throughout the design process and the final safety validation. This means that additional mechanisms and hardware may be necessary to reach desired level of safety.
We at Mecel are involved in ISO 26262 (the Automotive standard for functional safety) and AUTOSAR (Automotive Open Software Architecture) as safety experts.
We at Mecel provide knowledge and solutions that fulfill high requirements on safety integrity either as designers or as third party evaluator.
