Automotive System Safety - Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management

Contains practical insights into automotive system safety with a focus on corporate safety organization and safety management
 
Functional Safety has become important and mandated in the automotive industry by inclusion of ISO 26262 in OEM requirements to suppliers. This unique and practical guide is geared toward helping small and large automotive companies, and the managers and engineers in those companies, improve automotive system safety. Based on the author's experience within the field, it is a useful tool for marketing, sales, and business development professionals to understand and converse knowledgeably with customers and prospects.
 
Automotive System Safety: Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management teaches readers how to incorporate automotive system safety efficiently into an organization. Chapters cover: Safety Expectations for Consumers, OEMs, and Tier 1 Suppliers; System Safety vs. Functional Safety; Safety Audits and Assessments; Safety Culture; and Lifecycle Safety. Sections on Determining Risk; Risk Reduction; and Safety of the Intended Function are also presented. In addition, the book discusses causes of safety recalls; how to use metrics as differentiators to win business; criteria for a successful safety organization; and more.
* Discusses Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF), with a chapter about an emerging standard (SOTIF, ISO PAS 21448), which is for handling the development of autonomous vehicles
* Helps safety managers, engineers, directors, and marketing professionals improve their knowledge of the process of FS standards
* Aimed at helping automotive companies--big and small--and their employees improve system safety
* Covers auditing and the use of metrics
 
Automotive System Safety: Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management is an excellent book for anyone who oversees the safety and development of automobiles. It will also benefit those who sell and market vehicles to prospective customers.

List of contents

Series Editor's Foreword ix
 
Preface xi
 
Abbreviations xv
 
1 Safety Expectations for Consumers, OEMs, and Tier 1 Suppliers 1
 
Trustworthiness 1
 
Consumer Expectations 3
 
OEM Expectations 4
 
Supplier Expectations 6
 
2 Safety Organizations 11
 
The Need for a System Safety Organization 11
 
Functions of a Safety Organization 12
 
Critical Criteria for Organizational Success 13
 
Talent to Perform the Safety Tasks 14
 
Integral to Product Engineering 14
 
Career Path for Safety Personnel 15
 
Safety Process Owned by Program Management 15
 
Executive Review 16
 
Pillars of a Safety Process 18
 
Alternatives, Advantages, and Disadvantages 26
 
3 System Safety vs. Functional Safety in Automotive Applications 41
 
Safety Terminology 41
 
Functional Safety Standards vs. System Safety 42
 
Background 42
 
Application of Functional Safety Standards 42
 
Safety of the Intended Function (e.g. SOTIF, ISO PAS 21448) 44
 
Triggering Event Analyses 45
 
Background 45
 
Systematic Analyses 46
 
Validation 49
 
Validation Targets 49
 
Requirements Verification 50
 
Release for Production 53
 
Integration of SOTIF and Functional Safety and Other Considerations 55
 
Background 55
 
Analyses and Verification 57
 
Validation 58
 
4 Safety Audits and Assessments 61
 
Background 61
 
Audits 61
 
Audit Format 63
 
Use of External Auditors 65
 
Assessments 67
 
System Safety Assessment 67
 
Work Product Assessment 67
 
5 Safety Culture 71
 
Background 71
 
Characteristics of a Safety Culture 71
 
Central Safety Organization 72
 
Safety Managers 74
 
Joint Development 75
 
Enterprise Leadership 75
 
Liability 75
 
Customers 77
 
Safety Culture vs. Organization 77
 
6 Safety Lifecycle 79
 
Background 79
 
Concept Phase Safety 80
 
Preliminary Hazard Analysis 80
 
Preliminary Architecture 81
 
Requirements 83
 
Design Phase Safety 84
 
Design-Level Safety Requirements 84
 
Verification 86
 
Manufacturing
 
Phase Safety 86
 
Safety in Use 87
 
Safety in Maintenance 88
 
Safety in Disposal 90
 
7 Determining Risk in Automotive Applications 91
 
Analyze What the Actuator Can Do 91
 
Analyze Communication Sent and Received 93
 
Determine Potential for Harm in Different Situations and Quantify 94
 
Exposure 95
 
Priority 96
 
Consider Fire, Smoke, and Toxicity 97
 
8 Risk Reduction for Automotive Applications 99
 
History 99
 
Analysis of Architecture 99
 
System Interfaces 100
 
Internal Interfaces 101
 
Requirements Elicitation and Management 102
 
Three Sources of Requirements 102
 
Cascading Requirements 104
 
Conflicts with Cybersecurity 105
 
Determination of Timing Risks in an Automotive Application 106
 
Milestones 106
 
Samples 107
 
Program Management 108
 
Design and Verification 109
 
Sample Evaluation 109
 
Verification 111
 
9 Other Discussion and Disclaimer 113
 
Background 113
 
Three Causes of Automotive Safety Recalls - Never "Random" Failures 114
 
Failure Rates 114
 
Recalls Due to Random Hardware Failures 1

About the author

JOSEPH D. MILLER of J. D. Miller Consulting, Inc, USA, was Chief Engineer of System Safety where he established and directed the system safety process for TRW Automotive worldwide. He led the US Technical Advisory Committee (USTAG) for Functional Safety (ISO26262) for 12 years and served as an ISO expert voting the US position. He also led the US delegation for the Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF) ISO PAS 21448.

Summary

Contains practical insights into automotive system safety with a focus on corporate safety organization and safety management

Functional Safety has become important and mandated in the automotive industry by inclusion of ISO 26262 in OEM requirements to suppliers. This unique and practical guide is geared toward helping small and large automotive companies, and the managers and engineers in those companies, improve automotive system safety. Based on the author's experience within the field, it is a useful tool for marketing, sales, and business development professionals to understand and converse knowledgeably with customers and prospects.

Automotive System Safety: Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management teaches readers how to incorporate automotive system safety efficiently into an organization. Chapters cover: Safety Expectations for Consumers, OEMs, and Tier 1 Suppliers; System Safety vs. Functional Safety; Safety Audits and Assessments; Safety Culture; and Lifecycle Safety. Sections on Determining Risk; Risk Reduction; and Safety of the Intended Function are also presented. In addition, the book discusses causes of safety recalls; how to use metrics as differentiators to win business; criteria for a successful safety organization; and more.
* Discusses Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF), with a chapter about an emerging standard (SOTIF, ISO PAS 21448), which is for handling the development of autonomous vehicles
* Helps safety managers, engineers, directors, and marketing professionals improve their knowledge of the process of FS standards
* Aimed at helping automotive companies--big and small--and their employees improve system safety
* Covers auditing and the use of metrics

Automotive System Safety: Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management is an excellent book for anyone who oversees the safety and development of automobiles. It will also benefit those who sell and market vehicles to prospective customers.

Product details

• Authors: Jd Miller, Joseph D Miller, Joseph D. Miller
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781119579625
• ISBN: 978-1-119-57962-5
• No. of pages: 235
• Series: Quality and Reliability Engineering Series; Wiley Series in Quality and Reliability Engineering; Quality and Reliability Engine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Maschinenbau, Qualität, Fahrzeugtechnik, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik, Quality & Reliability, Qualität u. Zuverlässigkeit