safety-management

The Development Interface Agreement: Who Owns What in ISO 26262

Nobody develops the whole item. Safety still has to hold across the vehicle maker, the supplier, the chip vendor and the software house. The Development Interface Agreement is how ISO 26262 makes that work: who does which safety activity, who is responsible, what is exchanged, and what happens when something goes wrong. New article, worked through on a battery management system: where an agreement is needed, where it is not, and the four questions it has to answer.