KTM functional safety environment-break silos, ensure full traceability, modularity and automate reporting

Abstract

This paper discusses how KTM AG company addresses ISO26262 functional safety challenges internally and with its partners. KTM has identified four key resolutions to success. 1st-breaking the silos between safety and other departments, 2nd-ensuring traceability between development items to cover the norms, 3rd-accessing the modularity and reusability organisation to make the most of legacy knowledge, 4th-automating the reporting to ensure engineers focus on design (not on document generation). KTM targets an environment embracing Model Based Engineering and a repository of crosswise (work fields) design items. With a strong fo-cus on system engineering, KTM’s ambition is not to provide an ideal environment but to intro-duce one solving its current issues for its present maturity. The environment is implemented and operational on a major KTM project as a proof of concept for future KTM projects.