Efficient Implementation of Standards for Security, Safety and UNECE
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Efficient Implementation of Standards for Security, Safety and UNECE The efficient implementation of a multitude of standards is a key challenge in engineering. From worldwide consulting projects with OEM and Tier-1 supplier, Vector Consulting shows how standards in the domain of safety and security are applied. Companies thus achieve the necessary quality in accordance with product liability while at the same time limiting the otherwise excessive costs of complying with standards. The article provides guidance on the organizational design in the implementation of the standards, for example within agile teams.
AUTHOR
Christof Ebert is Managing Director of Vector Consulting Services in Stuttgart (Germany).
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STANDARDS ARE THE STATE OF THE ART
Standards simplify international coopera tion, create clear interfaces along the sup ply chain and protect consumers. Most rel evant from a legal perspective is that they describe the state of the art. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to comply with all applicable standards due to their fast growth. They tend to overlap and exhibit regional characteristics. Standards must be carefully implemented in their complexity in order to be legally effective and at the same time not create overheads. Standards are agreements on products, processes or procedures. They are agreed at national and international level by rec ognized associations and by trade or gov ernment organizations. In product devel opment, standards are the basis of the “state of the art” – for example in product
liability or in safety and cybersecurity. With ISO (International Organization for Standardization), the United Nations (UN) has deliberately chosen the highest level of standardization in order to support international cooperation and thus world peace. FIGURE 1 shows a section of the standards with a focus on IT and electron ics development in the automotive indus try. Regional variants and derived stan dards are not shown to simplify matters. Often standards are accepted and established procedures that facilitate co operation. In development and IT, many standards have been created de facto, for example for the exchange of data and for component interfaces. Standards facili tate international cooperation and offer reliability in projects and in the use of external components for product devel opment. They are particularly useful in the reliability and security of products.
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An important advantage of standards for both producers and consumers is the clearly defined state of the art. Standards released at the time a product is put on the market together form the so-called “state of the art”. This state of the art is import ant not only for engineers as a compen dium of applicable knowledge, but also for the jurisdiction. If malfunctions occur and accidents even occur as a result, it is checked whether the producer has com plied with this state of the art. As far as they can demonstrate this, for example by means of processes, training, instruc tio
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