In complex system development, fragmented safety analyses create inefficiencies, inconsistencies, and decision-making challenges. Functional safety demands a structured, traceable approach—from hazard identification to system-level requirements and hardware validation. By integrating Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment, Functional and Technical Safety Concept and Hardware Architecture Analysis (e.g., FIT calculation, FMEDA, and FTA) within a single tool, organizations achieve a cohesive, automated, and transparent workflow that enhances control, validation, and audit readiness.
The Key Advantages of an Integrated Approach
By linking hazard identification directly to safety goals, technical safety requirements, and stakeholder expectations, teams gain full visibility over safety decisions. Each requirement is backed by a clear rationale, ensuring compliance and reducing ambiguity.
The integration of hardware architecture analysis provides automated reliability and failure rate metrics. This allows teams to treat hardware architectural validation as part of requirements validation, ensuring that both functional and hardware safety aspects are assessed in a unified, consistent manner.
Safety Violation Countermeasures Linked to Testing
A key point in systematic and random failures control is the way we can prove the countermeasures operate as expected. When safety violations are detected, an integrated system enables teams to automatically link unitary tests with safety requirements and corresponding analyses. This ensures that corrective actions are not only defined but also validated through structured testing, providing a closed-loop safety verification process.
An integrated approach provides real-time alignment between risk assessment and safety requirements. Safety goals are directly translated into actionable technical and hardware measures, creating a robust decision path with minimal gaps.
Enhanced Audit Readiness & Compliance
Attending an audit becomes significantly easier when all safety artifacts are interlinked. This clear and structured traceability simplifies demonstrating compliance with ISO 26262 and other safety standards, reducing effort and promoting transparency in audits.
Conclusion: A Smarter, Integrated Path to Functional Safety
Integrating functional and hardware safety analyses into a single environment eliminates fragmentation, enhances decision-making, and strengthens validation processes. Organizations that adopt this approach gain greater control over their safety lifecycle, ensuring automated metrics, clear rationale, and strong compliance pathways—critical for delivering safe, compliant, and high-reliability systems.
Why Cynoss?
Cynoss’s Safesuite simply allows to link analyses with requirements, and thus, safety requirements with their corresponding tests. This workflow will allow the team to evidence the match between what is meant to be specially controlled and the result of this control.
This is exactly what any auditor would ask for.
On the other hand, this approach eases to design injection tests directly from your DFMEA results.
A huge time saving step for your development team.
A game changer in the control path of the functional safety processes.