Browse Topic: Liability

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02/23/2021

The purpose of this Standard is to provide an integrated set of fundamental processes to aid a developer in the engineering or reengineering of a system. Use of this Standard is intended to help developers a) establish and evolve a complete and consistent set of requirements that will enable delivery of feasible and cost-effective system solutions; b) satisfy requirements within cost, schedule, and risk constraints; c) provide a system, or any portion of a system, that satisfies stakeholders over the life of the products that make up the system. NOTE—The term product is used in this standard to mean: a physical item, such as a satellite (end product), or any of its component parts (end products); a software item such as a stand-alone application to run within an existing system (end product); or a document such as a plan, or a service such as test, training, or maintenance support, or equipment such as a simulator (enabling products). d) provide for the safe and/or cost-effective

G-47 Systems Engineering

Processes for Engineering a System

EIA632A-TEST-REC (Historical)02/23/2021

G-47 Systems Engineering

Unsettled Issues Facing Automated Vehicles and Insurance

EPR202001508/05/2020

This SAE EDGE™ Research Report explores how the deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) will affect the insurance industry and the principles of liability that underly the structure of insurance in the US. As we trade human drivers for suites of sensors and computers, who (or what) is responsible when there is a crash? The owner of the vehicle? The automaker that built it? The programmer that wrote the code?Insurers have over 100 years of experience and data covering human drivers, but with only a few years’ worth of information on AVs – how can they properly predict the true risks associated with their deployment? Without an understanding of the nature and risks of AVs, how can the government agencies that regulate the insurance industry provide proper oversight? Do the challenges AVs present require a total reworking of our insurance and liability systems, or can our current structures be adapted to fit them with minor modifications?{"bold":"Unsettled Legal Issues Facing Automated

Williams, Ian

The Road to the Top is Not on the Map: Conversations with Top Women of the Automotive Industry

R-49109/04/2019

Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, and Terry Barclay, CEO of Inforum, bring together over 30 of the most influential women in the automotive industry to share their insight and advice. From suppliers to OEMs, they hail from every corner of the industry. Readers will learn how to take charge of their own careers by understanding the experiences these professionals. Topics include: • Work-Life Integration - How can you be whole at home, at work, and in the community? • Education and Lifelong Learning - Do you really need a graduate degree? • Mentor and Sponsor Relationships - How do you find mentors and sponsors and form productive relationships with them? • Career Challenges - How do you evaluate when to take career risks? How do you say yes when all the boxes aren't checked? • Resilience - Where do you find the internal fortitude to keep going? • Personal Satisfaction - What do these leaders find most joyful about their careers? The Road to the Top is Not on the

Bailo, Carla, Barclay, Terry

Google talks self-driving vehicle development

16AUTP06_0806/01/2016

As automakers add advanced driver-assist systems to conventional passenger vehicles, they are developing one path to the fully autonomous vehicle-but not the only one. So, the inevitable question: When will fully self-driving cars arrive and what will they be like? Google, with years of experience in this area, has predicted as early as 2020. Work underway was described by the project's CEO, John Krafcik, who spoke at the recent J.D. Power/NADA/NY Auto Show forum.

Weissler, Paul

CALS Configuration Management SOW and CDRL Guidance

CMB7_3 (Current)10/01/2014

G-33 Configuration Management

Counterfeit Materiel; Assuring Acquisition of Authentic and Conforming Materiel

AS6174A-TEST-REC (Historical)07/29/2014

This SAE Standard standardizes practices to: a maximize availability of authentic materiel, b procure materiel from reliable sources, c assure authenticity and conformance of procured materiel, including methods such as certification, traceability, testing and inspection appropriate to the commodity/item in question, d control materiel identified as fraudulent/counterfeit, e and report suspect or confirmed fraudulent/counterfeit materiel to other potential users and Authority Having Jurisdiction.

G-21 Counterfeit Materiel Committee

Counterfeit Materiel; Assuring Acquisition of Authentic and Conforming Materiel

AS6174A (Current)

07/29/2014

G-21 Counterfeit Materiel Committee

Functional Safety Industry Best Practices for Introducing and Using ISO 26262

2013-01-019104/08/2013

Functions such as adaptive cruise control, crash protection systems, active body control and ESP are increasing in complexity and taking an ever more active role in controlling the car. These functions are realized by systems of sensors, actuators and interconnected electronic control units. The systems must be designed to function under a variety of operating conditions and must adhere to a number of mechanical, hardware and software constraints. In order to be able to manage the emerging product liability risks associated with such systems as well as ensuring the high level of quality required of automotive systems, significant improvements to engineering processes are necessary. In this article, we describe our experiences in adapting companies' development processes to conform to safety standards and to cope with the challenges mentioned above. We detail key success factors in overcoming these challenges and provide practical examples from working with global OEMs and tier-one

Ebert, Christof

Counterfeit Materiel; Assuring Acquisition of Authentic and Conforming Materiel

AS6174 (Historical)05/01/2012

G-21 Counterfeit Materiel Committee

Toolbased Calibration of the OBD Manager

10VARANN1312/21/2011

At the moment the documentation of failure inhibition matrices and the fault path management for different controller types and different vehicle projects are mainly maintained manually in individual Excel tables. This is not only time consuming but also gives a high potential for fault liability. In addition there is also no guarantee that the calibration of these failure inhibition matrices and its fault path really works. Conflicting aims between costs, time and fault liability require a new approach for the calibration, documentation and testing of failure inhibition matrices and the complete Diagnostic System Management (DSM) calibration. The standardization and harmonization of the Diagnostic System Management calibration for different calibration projects and derivates is the first step to reduce time and costs. Creating a master calibration for the conjoint fault paths and labels provides a significant reduction of efforts. The failure inhibition matrix and fault path

Riener, Markus

Fraudulent/Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Tool for Risk Assessment of Distributors

ARP6178 (Historical)12/19/2011

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice is applicable for all organizations that procure electronic components from sources other than the original component manufacturer of the component. It is especially applicable for assessing distributors that sell electronic components without contractual authorization from the original component manufacturer.

G-19 Counterfeit Electronic Parts Committee

Method of Reducing Stray Energy Burns in Laparoscopic Surgery

TBMG-950004/01/2011

Any surgery brings with it risk, both to the patient and the surgeon. However, laparoscopic surgery sometimes brings an additional invisible risk: stray energy burns. Electrosurgical devices and laparoscopic instruments can suffer insulation failures and capacitive coupling, potentially causing stray energy burns to the patient. Often these burns occur out of sight of the surgeon and may go unnoticed until the patient presents with symptoms like peritonitis or sepsis.

Method of Reducing Stray Energy Burns in Laparoscopic Surgery

TBMG-TB-00950004/01/2011

Active Electrode Monitoring (AEM) instruments incorporate a “shielded and monitored” design to lower risk of injury. Any surgery brings with it risk, both to the patient and the surgeon. However, laparoscopic surgery sometimes brings an additional invisible risk: stray energy burns. Electrosurgical devices and laparoscopic instruments can suffer insulation failures and capacitive coupling, potentially causing stray energy burns to the patient. Often these burns occur out of sight of the surgeon and may go unnoticed until the patient presents with symptoms like peritonitis or sepsis.

Standardization of Graphics for Service Information and Translation Expense Reduction

2009-01-285710/06/2009

The cost of human natural language translation of Service Information, Assembly Instructions, Training Materials, Operator Manuals and other similar documents is a major expense for manufacturers. One translation avoidance method involves replacing most of a document’s text with still and/or animated graphics. While the graphics with minimum text concept has savings potential, clarity of communication must be maintained for widespread application of this technique. The necessary clarity should be achieved if standards are established for the symbols and graphical conventions used. This paper provides an example of a repair procedure documented using the graphics with minimum text paradigm, describes many of the anticipated standards and provides an update on the progress towards achieving a standard development project.

Taube, Arnold A.

Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Avoidance, Detection, Mitigation, and Disposition

AS5553-TEST-REC (Historical)04/02/2009

This SAE Aerospace Standard standardizes practices to: a maximize availability of authentic parts, b procure parts from reliable sources, c assure authenticity and conformance of procured parts, d control parts identified as counterfeit, e and report counterfeit parts to other potential users and Government investigative authorities.

G-19 Counterfeit Electronic Parts Committee

Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Avoidance, Detection, Mitigation, and Disposition

AS5553 (Historical)

04/02/2009

G-19 Counterfeit Electronic Parts Committee

Product Lifecycle Management Does for Ideas What ERP Did for Assets, without the Headaches

2008-01-230409/16/2008

Essentially, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is to a company's product value chain (Engineering IP) what Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is to its inventory and manufacturing processes. This paper's intent is to provide insight into today's global business platform, and how having the proper strategy with a scalable PLM solution will provide both short and long term value.

Wood, Graham A., Zuefeldt, Dan

Workflow and Asset Management Challenges in a Distributed Organization

2008-01-127904/14/2008

Increasingly Automotive OEMs and their suppliers find themselves spread across different continents. This in turn gives rise to knowledge, physical assets and key decision makers also being spread across the globe. This poses significant challenges for the companies to effectively manage and keep track of their resources. It is also challenging to work with teams spread across globe and for the team to arrive at intelligent decisions quickly and efficiently. In last few years we have spent significant amount of person hours trying to create systems and Software to help manage Workflow and Assets spread across diverse Geographic and Political areas. This paper intends to discuss some of the key factors involved such as: Keeping Track of Assets in a diverse and distributed Organization Controlling the movement of Assets Implementing workflow Software for change management in a distributed Organization Using workflow Software to manage/approve the movement of Assets Challenges in

Anand, Ravi, Anand, Beena, Ganesan, Subra

Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction and Litigation, Fourth Edition

B-87002/21/2008

This book, written for professional accident reconstructionists, lawyers, and forensic engineers, is organized in two sections on forensic engineering reconstruction of motorcycle accidents and legal analysis. While introducing a few new formulas, Obenski, a consulting engineer specializing in failure analysis and accident reconstruction (and an experienced motorcycle rider) emphasizes how the familiar formulas and methods accident reconstructionists already know can be applied to motorcycles.

Obenski, Kenneth S., Shapiro, Eric S., Debes, Jack C.

Motorsports Industry Knowledge Exchange (MiKE): Oxymoron or Holy Grail (An Imperative for Sustaining Regional, National and Global Competitiveness)

2006-01-361012/05/2006

Of all high-performance engineering industries, motorsports perhaps exemplifies best the unique combination of key engineering and business elements vital for swift, industry-focused, successful, high-technology product advancement. This heady mix includes: complex market analysis; sophisticated research, design and development capability; rapid product innovation, prototyping and development; just-in-time manufacturing using state-of-the-art processes; and regular mandated exhibition of company competitiveness, involving (at the highest environs) demonstration of both personnel and new product capability and reliability, on an unforgiving world stage, invariably to ensure continuing investor (sponsor) confidence. Such examples of motorsport's disparate business model elements in many ways demonstrate fundamentally the industry's absolute reliance on what in corporate speak is now termed ‘brains trust’ or ‘human capital’. Invariably, however, funding for academic faculties (certainly

Meechan, Mike

Development Of One Program For Accelerated Tests

2006-01-279111/21/2006

This work presents a study on the related basic aspects with the accelerated tests used in the industry to determine or to confirm the reliability of an item and of the methodologies currented to analysis of the accelerated tests of life of the products. Are argued the importance of the models for each distribution and the methodologies applied in the work.It is implemented programs of computation in VISUAL BASIC language that allow the management and the adequacy for the processing of the data proceeding from the accelerated tests with constant stress and simple failure mode, for complete data, and with censorship the right or multiple, using the distribution of Weibull, Log-normal and Normal, combined with the most used models (Arrhenius model and Inverse Power Law), the program allows to the processing of the data of the accelerated tests for two methods, Squared Minimums and Maximum Likelihood Principle.

Nogueira, Joaquim Xavier, Dedini, Franco Giuseppe

Tort Reform and Motor Vehicle Deaths

2006-21-006210/16/2006

Theory is ambiguous as to the effect of tort reform on accidents and accidental deaths. There are factors that might lead such reforms to increase deaths, and factors that might lead to reduced deaths. Previous research on non-automotive accidents from 1980-2000 found that some reforms lead to increased deaths and some to reduced deaths; net, tort reforms led to about 24,000 fewer deaths. Here, we extend that research to examine motor vehicle deaths. There is an additional factor to consider in the case of automobile deaths. Tort reform would be expected to reduce the cost and so increase the incidence of automobile insurance. Other research has found that increased automobile insurance leads to increased deaths, and so tort reform might lead to increased deaths through this channel. As before, we find mixed results. Caps on punitive damages, product liability reform, and collateral source reform (offset awards) lead to reduced deaths; higher evidence standard for punitive damages and

Rubin, Paul H., Shepherd, Joanna M.

Re-Thinking Traffic Safety: The Global Situation, The Behavioral Model, Strategies for Improvement

2006-21-006310/16/2006

Recent United Nations and World Health Organization reports and resolutions indicate that the world has and is experiencing ever-increasing, epidemic and catastrophic levels of automotive violence as we use our cars. Meanwhile, many U.S. traffic safety agencies, government and influential business concerns have been reluctant to consider or adopt “public policy” measures based on a cultural “behavior model” to improve road users’ understanding, ability and safety performance.[1] Concerted measures and approaches to set standards and improve upon or solve human error/performance difficulties are well documented in all fields of human endeavor, except with and for U.S. drivers. These tactics are rejected as a way to resolve this “public problem”, even in the face of demonstrated successes elsewhere in the world. There is little agency and governmental confidence in the driving public's ability to improve. The pressure toward a more intelligent vehicle or intelligent transportation system

Green, Robert P.

Considerations for the Carriage and Use of Visual Distress Signals in Airline Overwater Survival Kits

AIR5690 (Historical)

08/23/2006

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) is intended to promote awareness of the dangers associated with the carriage and use of pyrotechnic signaling devices in multi-place life rafts and slide/rafts on transport category aircraft. Also included is background information and a rationale for replacing these devices with alternative signaling devices, which offer effective signaling and reduced flammability, yielding an “equivalent level of safety,” as required by the FAA for replacement of the required pyrotechnic signaling device.

S-9A Safety Equipment and Survival Systems Committee