FUNCTIONAL SAFETY-Progressing towards safer mobility

Increasing complexity in E/E architectures poses several challenges to developing comfortable, clean and safe vehicles. This mandates robust processes to mitigate potential hazards due to malfunction of electronic systems throughout the product lifecycle. With the advent of ISO 26262, which provides guidelines for developing safe cars, the process is becoming standardized towards safer mobility. In this paper, the functional safety process is briefly covered and a case study of Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment for specific E/E system is presented. An in-house tool developed for functional safety process and management also is presented.