Seminar on Building for Safety Certification (Biel/Bienne) - 22.5.12

Overview

In addition to the usual software delivery challenges of cost, features and schedules, industrial and medical device manufacturers must contend with specifying and validating their products’ functional safety, usually with the demanding goal of achieving certification by regulatory agencies.

Designing a functionally safe solution adds new requirements in various stages of product development. Special attention on functional safety at earlier stages of development will have the greatest impact, beginning with the critical step of selecting the right hardware and OS platform as a solid foundation.

Speaker biographie

Chris Hobbs is a kernel developer at QNX, specializing in "sufficiently-available" software: software created with the minimum development effort to meet the availability and reliability needs of the customer; and in producing safe software (in conformance with IEC61508 SIL3).

Chris Hobbs earned a B.Sc., Honours in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Philosophy at the University of London's Queen Mary and Westfield College.

Agenda - (register now)

08.30 Registration and Coffee
09.00 Opening
09.05 The changing nature of safe software
What has changed over the last 10 years and, implicitly, how has QNX responded to the changes?
09.50 Functional Safety and Risk Analysis
Standards like 61508 (industrial automation), 51028 (railways) address functional safety and downplay risk analysis. Standards like 62304 (medical) address risk and specifically don’t talk functional safety. Standards like 26262 (automobiles) address both functional safety and risk. What are the differences and why have they arisen?
10.20 Break
10.40 Implications of developing a safe product.

How safe is “safe enough”? What is the role of the Safety Engineer?

The standards “recommend” and “highly recommend” certain development processes. How does one get started on this type of development? The standards “recommend” and “highly recommend” certain techniques and tools (e.g., semi-formal methods, deep static analysis, recovery blocks, safety bag). What are the important ones? How practical are they? This section would include demonstrations.
12:15 Lunch
13.30 Building the Safety Case
What goes into a Safety Case? How can it be structured?
14.30 Combining Safe Components in a Design – first part
Demonstration of how to create a system satisfying, e.g., IEC61508 SIL3, from components including COTS/SOUP.
15:20 Break
15.30 Combining Safe Components in a Design – second part
17.00 Closing
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Seminar on Building for Safety Certification (Biel) - 22.5.12

Producing safe software in conformance with IEC61508 SIL3 (industrial automation), EN 51028 (railways) and IEC 62304 (medical).

Date: Mai 22nd 2012
Cost: CHF 250 (lunch included)

Language: english

Locality: Hotel Elite, 2502 Biel/Bienne - www.hotelelite.ch


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