Advanced Safety Acceleration Platform

ASAP is the best-in-class software platform that guides users through a reliable process to ensure you develop a safe and compliant system.

The Safety Certification Problem

Lack of Effective or Unified Toolsets

Engineers developing safety certified products use a range of disparate tools perform the steps towards safety certification and these tools often vary between department and from one program to the next. These tools, usually spreadsheet-based templates, rely heavily on Functional Safety expertise to develop consistent, assessor-ready deliverables.

Inconsistent Deliverables

Without a unified toolset, safety critical deliverables are inconsistent, non-trustworthy, and time consuming. This leads to information silos between departments as well as the thousands of dollars required in product / process re-work.

Reporting Inefficiencies

Test planning and data processing is a laborious and time-consuming manual process which is often decentralized. As these tasks are on the critical path while also being dependent on a limited number of safety & technical experts, safety related bottlenecks can result in program delays measured in months.

The Solution

From autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to work cell machines and even occupational safety, ASAP is currently being used across industries to ensure standards are met, risks are mitigated, and systems are safe.

What is ASAP?

ASAP is a collaborative toolset which guides teams through proven, repeatable processes, across the Systems Engineering V-Model, resulting in standardized outputs trusted by assessors. From Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment through to the Safety Case, the toolset is intended to empower teams of engineers to provide high quality, consistent and calibrated results.

What does ASAP do?

With all information in a single system, management tasks such as tracking internal audits, team capabilities, change management and overall project status are supported. Trusted by NRTLs (TÜV Rheinland, UL, Intertek), ASAP allows users to follow a guided process to ensure systems are safe, reliable, and compliant.

Safety Management and Assessment Core Technology V-model

Built to the prescriptive V-Model defined in IEC 61508, ISO 13849, and ISO 26262, ASAP enables you to build your system using the safety lifecycle model that assessors are familiar with. As it complies with these core standards, ASAP is also influenced heavily by other functional safety standards, including:

Hierarchy of Hazard Controls (ISO 12100 / ANSI B11.0)
Risk elements and graphs (ISO 14121-2)
Performance Level and SIL determination (ISO 13849)
Waterfall risk assessment methodology (ISO 13849 / ISO 12100)
Machinery Directive Tagging (2006/42/EC)
HAZOP identification (SAE J2980 / ISO 26262 /IEC 61511)
Reliability Analysis and Component Failure Rates (SN 29500)
Data processing to support sensor characterization (IEC 61496)

Competitive Advantages

NRTL T2 Qualification

ASAP has been qualified as a T2 offline support tool by TÜV Rheinland. The qualification process guarantees that assessors have accepted the process ASAP follow and agrees to its compliance. It also ensures the quality and reliability of the tools.

Democratization of Safety

Empower your entire team to participate in the safety process through collaborative tools and auditable consensus voting. Features like auditable consensus voting and discussion on risk and requirements ensure all perspectives are heard and considered.

Automated Documentation

Functional Safety assessment usually requires a team of technical writers working closely with the engineering team to tell the “safety story”. With ASAP, documentation is generated with the click of a button automatically capturing revision history.

Automated Inputs & Outputs

With one unified platform, each Safety Lifecycle phase has connected inputs and outputs. For instance, the Risk Reduction Measures created in the Risk Assessment will automatically be linked to the necessary Safety Functions and Requirements in the downstream lifecycle phases

Guided Process

Enable every engineer to follow a proven process towards the compliance of complex systems. Alleviate your dependency on functional safety expertise by taking advantage of the assessor-trusted process prescribed by ASAP. ASAP turns everyone into a Functional Safety Engineer!

Testimonials

ASAP is game-changing as it increases consistency through rules / automatic quality checks, its voting features reduce silos and improve consensus, and it raises the bar for risk assessments through its alignment with ANSI B11.0. The voting feature is a critical feature which promotes equality and inclusion. I often see a lead or a loud team member speak for or pressure their team members to side with them. Voting allows all voices to be heard and produces a more true consensus."

Using ASAP was like having a Functional Safety Expert on the team making sure we were utilizing the standards processes and best practices. By using the tool, we identified additional risks that had previously been unknown, which we were then able to address with design changes. In the past, we would have created the HARA later in the timeline and would have missed the opportunity to refine the design so early. Catching those issues saved the team time and ultimately led to a more successful program.”

Break the Safety-Speed Barrier

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