Safety & Systems Engineering

More safety with Berner & Mattner

How can the automotive industry meet the demands of the standard ISO 26262 with ever more complex systems and structures and in terms of time and economic aspects? For ECU development, this requires consulting and service partners who cannot only implement the process and quality aspects in a practice-oriented manner but who also understand the technical domain as experienced embedded developers.

As a solution for this demanding task, Berner & Mattner offers its concept of "Systems & Safety Engineering", where "embedded systems" experts with special know-how in the areas of safety and system engineering work together in a team. In this way, all areas of expertise to develop standards-compliant safety-critical systems are covered. Additionally, existing gaps between the disciplines of hardware and software, OEM and suppliers as well as functional safety and product development are closed. The interaction of these components leads to a holistic safety approach having already resulted in measurable efficiency increases and failure prevention in numerous client projects.

Your advantage

• Reduction of failure, recall and product liability risks
• Coverage of all safety life cycle activities according to ISO 26262
• Closing the knowledge gap between disciplines during the development of software-controlled electronic systems
• Continuous training of our employees ensures that all innovations and changes of the standard requirements as well as the latest interpretations of the standard in practice are directly transferred to the affected development projects
• A faster way to a safe and functioning system according to specifications: Reducing development costs and times, avoiding product risks

Our competencies

Safety activities during life cycle

• Performing or managing all activities of the entire safety life cycle according to ISO26262/IEC61508/CENELEC
• Hazard and risk analysis, including (A)SIL classification
• Preparation of functional and technical safety concepts on OEM and supplier level
• Definition of safety and diagnostic measures in HW and SW
• Model-based specification of (safety) architecture and design on system, hardware and software level, traceability to requirements
• Analysis of failure modes and rates as well as diagnostic coverage (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA)
• Preparation of safety and validation plans, standards-compliant test concepts and templates
• Assessments, approval and preparation of homologations

Safety process consulting

• Evaluation of existing development processes (gap analysis) according to ISO26262/IEC61508/CENELEC, also in conjunction with SPICE
• Process definition, tailoring of standard requirements to business needs, integration into existing processes
• Preparation of process documentation, guidelines, training materials
• Taking over the safety manager role in (pilot) projects, training and coaching
• Negotiation of development interface agreements between OEM and suppliers
• Supplier evaluation, supplier tracking, technical due diligence

Systems Engineering

• Establishing product understanding and documentation/modeling with UML, SysML, Simulink, etc.
• Technical analysis of requirements
• Preparation of (model-based) system architecture documentations
• Documentation of ECU, HW and SW interfaces
• Tracking failure effects (e.g. with hierarchical FMEA, component fault trees) and allocation of technical safety measures
• Feasibility studies and technical risk analysis
• Moderation at the OEM/supplier interface
• Consulting on efficient and adequate verification/validation of technical solutions