ISO 26262 Academy is the online training platform for automotive functional safety: 93 concept guides, 15 engineering simulators, 4,799 exam questions and 230 work-product templates, built around ISO 26262:2018 by a practising functional safety manager.
Two minimal cut sets. Trace how a fault reaches the top event.
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These are screens from the platform as it runs today. Four ways of working, one account: analyse, prove, understand, document.
Build a fault tree and read its minimal cut sets. Apportion failure rates in an FMEDA and watch SPFM, LFM and PMHF move against the ASIL targets. Argue a safety case in GSN with live validation. 15 tools, each with worked automotive examples.
Markov and RBD are free for every registered user. FTA, DFA and GSN from Pro. All 15 on Expert.
Explore the simulators4,799 questions across Parts 2 to 11 in five formats: multiple choice, fill in the blank, block diagram, drag and drop and AI-graded open text. Random, adaptive and thematic modes across 15 topic areas, with a written explanation on every question and a readiness report after three exams.
5 random exams a month on Free, 5 of each mode on Pro, unlimited on Expert.
See how the exams workWhich of the following is not one of the parameters used to determine an ASIL in the hazard analysis and risk assessment?
93 guides organised along the safety lifecycle: HARA and ASIL determination, functional and technical safety concepts, hardware metrics, software qualification, SOTIF and the safety case. 6 of them carry a full video course - 70+ subtitled lessons across the platform, with diagrams that stay in sync as you watch - and the rest are written chapters with the same diagrams and worked examples.
The Functional Safety Concept guide is free. 14 guides on Pro, all 87 released on Expert.
See the full curriculum230 templates with chapter-by-chapter guidance and real examples, from the safety plan and HARA worksheet to the technical safety concept and verification report, plus 26 process descriptions and full Methods and Measures coverage.
3 templates on Free, 75 on Pro, every template and process on Expert.
Browse templates and processes01 / A different way to learn
Watch the explanation. Follow the diagram. Connect the dots. The free Functional Safety Concept guide keeps the video and the lesson in sync, so you can follow the reasoning as it unfolds.
Start the free FSC guide Full guide + videos. Free account. No credit card.The clock starts when the fault occurs. Detection spends the first part of the time budget.
One fault. A limited time to handle it.
Follow each part of the response.
Detection takes time. Budget for it.Try a step. The explanation follows.
02 / A direction that fits you
A software engineer and a safety manager need different starting points. Career Path turns your role, experience and goals into a structured sequence of guides, practice and skill checks.
See how Career Path worksChange an answer. Watch the path adapt.
Your starting point shapes your next step.
Start with the link between safety goals and requirements.
Build the reasoning behind a safe software design.
Understand memory, timing and communication isolation.
Test your understanding and review the reasoning.
This is a sample sequence. The Career Path assessment refines your plan around your skills and gaps.
03 / Try it on your own values
Two tools you can open right away. Every field says what it means and which unit it takes, and every result shows how it was worked out.
ISO 26262-5 hardware metrics
Enter your FMEDA totals in FIT and see SPFM, LFM and PMHF compared with the ASIL B, C and D targets.
Example values. Replace them with your own.
Open the calculatorReliability block diagrams
Change the architecture of a sensor, controller and actuator chain, or fail a block, and see what redundancy does to reliability.
System reliability at 104 h99.9484 %
Example values. Change them on the page.
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Explore the learning style and start with the free functional safety concept.
Build foundations with selected guides and focused exam practice.
Work across the safety lifecycle with the complete learning library and tools.
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ISO 26262AcademyTeamsFor companies and teams
Every seat carries the full Expert plan. You add the people, assign guides and exams per role, and read competence evidence from one console. Per-seat rates fall as the team grows.
ISO 26262AcademyInstructorsFor trainers and consultancies
Describe your next training: the topic, the vehicle system, the audience and how long you have. We build the deck from the academy library, a functional safety engineer reviews it, and it arrives in your brand, licensed to you for life.
Questions engineers ask
The questions visitors open most, answered the way the guides answer them. For anything about your own project, ask an expert.
ISO 26262 is the international standard for the functional safety of electrical and electronic systems in road vehicles. It defines a safety lifecycle, from management and concept through system, hardware and software development to production, operation and decommissioning, and it grades the rigour required by an Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL). The current edition is ISO 26262:2018.
ISO 26262:2018 has 12 parts. The 2011 first edition had 10. The second edition added Part 11, guidelines for applying ISO 26262 to semiconductors, and Part 12, the adaptation for motorcycles. Parts 1 to 10 cover vocabulary, management, the concept phase, system, hardware and software development, production and operation, supporting processes, ASIL-oriented analyses and general guidelines.
An ASIL is determined in the hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA) by rating each hazardous event on three parameters: severity (S0 to S3), probability of exposure (E0 to E4) and controllability (C0 to C3). The combination maps to QM (no ASIL) or ASIL A, B, C or D, with D the most demanding. The rating is made per hazardous event in its operational situation, never for a component on its own.
FMEA is inductive and bottom-up: it starts from individual failure modes and traces their effects up to the system. FTA is deductive and top-down: it starts from an undesired top event and decomposes its causes through logic gates down to basic events, which yields minimal cut sets and a top-event probability. ISO 26262 uses both, and the platform has an interactive simulator for each.
Automotive safety engineers, functional safety managers, ADAS and automated-driving engineers, hardware and software engineers moving into safety-related work, assessors, and students preparing for a functional safety career. Companies use the Teams plan to train whole departments on one contract.
The free plan includes the complete Functional Safety Concept guide with its videos, three work-product templates, one process description, the Markov Chain and RBD Simulators, five random practice exams a month and your exam history. No credit card is required, and it does not expire.
4,799 questions a subscriber can actually be asked, covering Parts 2 to 11 of ISO 26262:2018 in five formats: multiple choice, fill in the blank, block diagram, drag and drop and AI-graded open text. Every question has a written explanation. Exams run in random, adaptive and thematic modes.
15 simulators: FTA (fault trees, minimal cut sets, top-event probability), FMEA (worksheet with action priority), FMEDA (SPFM, LFM and PMHF against ASIL targets), Markov chains (continuous-time reliability models), STPA, DFA (dependent failure analysis), cascading failures and freedom from interference, HAZOP, a GSN safety case builder, reliability block diagrams, event trees, MISRA C triage, MC/DC coverage, fault injection campaigns and timing analysis. Markov and RBD are free for every registered user, FTA, DFA and GSN come with Pro, and the full set is on the Expert plan.
IEC 61508 is the generic functional safety standard for electrical, electronic and programmable systems across industries. ISO 26262 is its automotive adaptation: it uses ASILs instead of SILs, adds the HARA with severity, exposure and controllability, defines the hardware architectural metrics SPFM, LFM and PMHF, and covers the full vehicle lifecycle from item definition to decommissioning.
ISO 26262 is not a law, but it is the de facto requirement of the automotive supply chain. Most OEMs make compliance a condition of supply, and it is the recognised state of the art that regulators and courts refer to when a product-liability question arises, so in practice it is mandatory for anyone building safety-related vehicle electronics.
Yes. The Expert Consultation service connects you with human functional safety engineers, not an AI. You submit the question, receive a quote, and get a written answer with follow-up clarification. Typical topics are safety analyses, ASIL decomposition and safety mechanisms, gap assessments and audit preparation, hardware metrics and software partitioning.
A safety case is the structured argument, supported by evidence, that an item is acceptably safe for its intended use. It compiles the work products of the safety lifecycle into claims, arguments and evidence, often in Goal Structuring Notation (GSN), and it is what the independent functional safety assessment reviews.
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The free plan gives you the complete Functional Safety Concept guide, the Markov and RBD simulators and five practice exams a month. Upgrade when the project asks for more.
