ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Introduction

by Chad Kymal published on October 07, 2021

Programme overview

Automotive Functional Safety, ISO 26262, has gained importance in the recent years with the advent of the Electric Vehicle and Autonomous Vehicle market. This 60 minute webinar is intended as an introduction (for non-experts) to the ISO26262 Automotive Functional Safety standard which applies to new automotive product development, including ICs within those products.

Learning outcomes

Training goals are to:

• Gain an overview of the ISO26262 Functional Safety standard

• Become familiar with some of the terminology defined within the standard

Who is the course for?

Managers and engineers who are not experts in ISO26262, but wish to become more familiar with the requirements of this automotive functional safety standard and the associated terminology.

Schedule

Automotive Functional Safety, ISO 26262, has gained importance in the recent years with the advent of the Electric Vehicle and Autonomous Vehicle market. It is a vast subject with 13 different standards broken down into a general functional safety section and then followed by functional safety in system, hardware, software, manufacturing and support processes.


This 60 minute webinar will provide an easy to understand overview of Functional Safety for the Semiconductor Industry. The presentation will also simply explain the different terminologies of Functional Safety for non-experts. We will also cover what parts of ISO 26262 relate to Semiconductors and what organizations are currently doing in regards to Functional Safety. 

Speaker

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.