“infoteam Functional Safety Management” (or iFSM) is the name of our development process which is pre-certified by the TÜV for the development of functionally safe software according to IEC 61508 to SIL 3. It complies with standards in relation to design, risk management, development and testing and guarantees all the necessary documentation for certification of your software. If you already have your own process, we would also happy to use this to develop your software.

Functionally safe software is only really safe if attacks and manipulations from external sources are not possible. We therefore recommend taking cyber security or safety from attacks [PK1] into account from the design and development phase. As both sides impact on each other, we consider safety and security requirements at the same time rather than developing each separately as is commonplace. This enables us to add security measures to the iFSM process for the relevant work steps, for example, and significantly reduce development costs and time.

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The development of a secure control system requires secure system components tailored to one another. It must be possible for them to be verified and validated not only individually, but also in their interaction in individual application areas.

The “infoteam Functional Safety Control” concept (iFSC concept) presents a holistic approach for the implementation of safe functions and the development of secure control systems:

• Standard-compliant development process iFSM
• Secure system components
  • Runtime system
  • Operating system
  • Hardware
  • Programming environment

With the system components used, which are pre-certified, proven in use and validated, development time and costs are reduced in addition to development risk. The efficiency of the development of secure application software is also increased.

In the functional safety standards, the V-model is used as a development model. If you wish, we will carry out work steps based on this linear, non-iterative model with agile development methods. This enables us to respond more quickly to any changes in boundary conditions.