Considerations of Functional Safety, Automotive SPICE, and Cybersecurity in Automotive New-Product Development

by Jonathan Hunt,Chad Kymal,Dr.Juan Pimentel published on November 28, 2019

Product design in autonomous and electric vehicles requires a product architecture of systems, subsystems, hardware, software, requirements management, and the “Engineering V.” Electronics, hardware, and software in the product also necessitate new software standards. Automotive SPICE, a software capability standard required by many OEMs, has the voice of the customer translated into system architectural requirements, which flow down to system requirements, then to software architecture, next to software requirements, and finally into unit requirements. As the requirements flow down, customers, suppliers, sub-suppliers must work closely together because product development of Functional Safety, SOTIF, Cyber Security, and AIAG-VDA FMEA demands linked development.


Organizations in the automotive industry, and other sectors such as steel, plastics, and semiconductors, have been heavily influenced by automotive industry standards and practices like IATF 16949, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Production Parts Approval Process (PPAP). Excluding the IATF 16949 which is the Automotive Quality Management Systems Standard, the others are collectively called “Core Tools” which include Measurement System Analysis (MSA) and Statistical Process Control (SPC).




Chad Kymal, CTO and Founder of Omnex Inc.,


Chad Kymal is the CTO and founder of Omnex Inc., an international consulting and training organization headquartered in the United States. Chad is also the CEO of Omnex Systems, an Enterprise Quality, and IMS Software provider. He is on the ISO/TC 176, ISO/TC 207, and PC 283 committees for ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management), and ISO 45001 (Health and Safety Management Systems). Chad is also the U.S. expert for the ISO 10013 documented information update. He is a certified lead auditor for IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, HAACP, ISO 45001, and AS9100. Chad teaches these and many other courses for Omnex, such as integrated management systems. Chad and Omnex teach, implement, and audit AIAG 4th Edition FMEAs, AIAG-VDA FMEAs, and SAE J 1739 FMEAs. Chad, along with Greg Gruska of Omnex, originally discovered the linkages between the PFMEA and DFMEAs in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Chad Kymal

Chad Kymal is the CTO and Founder of Omnex Inc. He is the author of seven books and more than 100 papers including several on integrated management systems. Chad is currently on the writing committees for several standards including TC 22/ SC 32/WG 8 for ISO 26262 (Functional Safety), ISO/TC 176 for ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), ISO/TC 207 for ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management), and PC283 for ISO 45001 (Health and Safety Management Systems). He founded and was the CEO of an Automotive registrar for over 10 years and is familiar with conducting audits, being witnessed for audits, and also evaluating auditors and assessors. He authored and teaches a course for 3rd Party Auditors for Automotive Registrars on behalf of International Automotive Certification Bodies Association (IACBA). This course explains how 3rd Party Auditors audit IATF 16949 in an environment that includes ASPICE, Functional Safety and Product Cybersecurity. He is currently rolling out the course to global 3rd Party Auditors for IATF 16949. Chad has spent over 20 years in system, hardware and software development in various capacities. He assesses and works in automotive system, hardware and software for Agile, ASPICE, and Functional Safety ISO 26262. Chad is also currently an intacsTM certified Principal Assessor for Automotive SPICE.