V-Model: Configuration Management and Baselines Across the Safety Lifecycle

Date
2026-11-16
Location
Online
Host
Zach L

About this event

A live 30-minute expert session on Configuration Management and Baselines Across the Safety Lifecycle (V-Model — The V-Model & Safety Lifecycle). What We'll Cover: What configuration management is and why the V-model collapses without controlled baselines at each phase gate Setting it up step by step: choosing configuration items, baseline points, branching rules, and build reproducibility checks How CM maps to supporting-process clauses in IEC 61508-1 and ISO 26262-8 and the configuration records produced Common mistakes: tests run against unbaselined code, tool versions unrecorded, and baselines that cannot be rebuilt The baseline audit, build reproduction demo, and CM records an assessor requests during a functional safety audit Related topics: configuration management · baselines · configuration items · build reproducibility · version control · branching strategy · cm audit · iso 26262 part 8 · release baseline · configuration records · tool versions · baseline integrity · phase gate baseline · reproducible builds Critical Systems Analysis provides embedded functional safety consulting for V-Model — The V-Model & Safety Lifecycle. Learn more: https://criticalsystemsanalysis.com Partner with us: https://meetings.hubspot.com/benjamin-twombly/strategic-partnerships

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About Functional Safety Foundations

This online session delivers expert-led instruction on the regulatory landscape and implementation approach for Functional Safety Foundations.

The cross-sector fundamentals underlying every functional safety standard: risk as severity × likelihood, the safety function concept, integrity levels, the safety lifecycle, and the split between random and systematic failures.

What it regulates

Shared vocabulary and reasoning: hazard → risk → risk reduction allocation → safety requirement → verified implementation → maintained integrity in operation.

Who must comply

Everyone entering the field — the conceptual base of the entire catalog.

Key requirements of Functional Safety Foundations

  • Hazard and risk fundamentals
  • Safety function anatomy: sensor-logic-actuator with defined safe state
  • Integrity ladders (SIL/PL/ASIL/DAL) as risk-reduction currencies
  • Random vs systematic failure treatment
  • Lifecycle and management of functional safety incl. competence

Key concepts: Functional Safety Foundations

Functional safety management
Planning, competence, documentation and assessment wrapped around technical work.
Random vs systematic
Hardware wear-out/chance failures quantified statistically versus design/process errors controlled by rigor.
Risk reduction allocation
Distributing required risk reduction among mechanical design, safeguards, control functions and procedures.
Safe state
The defined condition a function drives the equipment to on demand or fault.

Frequently asked questions: Functional Safety Foundations

Why can't testing alone prove safety?

Rare-event targets (like 1e-7/h) are unverifiable by test duration, and systematic errors evade random testing — hence the standards' dual machinery of quantified hardware analysis plus process rigor and independent assessment.

Standard information based on the published text of Functional Safety Foundations. Event content is provided by the host. For authoritative guidance, consult the official standard body.