Safety & security consulting for safety-related product development

We enable our customers to successfully develop safety-related systems in accordance with the basic standards IEC 61508 and IEC 62443 or their industry-specific standards. With the increasing complexity, digitalization and networking of products, the requirements for their functional safety and information security are growing. When developing systems and components, safety-relevant factors and potential risks must therefore be identified right at the start of the development process and implemented in accordance with regulatory provisions and normative requirements (safety & security by design).

NewTec is your partner when it comes to setting up and implementing a development project correctly right from the start. Together, we clarify which requirements arise from the development project in terms of functional safety and cybersecurity and how these can best be implemented: Which regulations must be observed, which standards should be used as a guide and what best practices are there?

Safety consulting - our services at a glance:

•     Maturity assessment of safety and support processes
•     Consulting and coaching on safety requirements, safety design
•     Introduction of safety processes
•     Integration of the safety process into the product development process
•     Training of safety process managers
•     Creation of technical safety concepts (up to architecture level)
•     Moderation of concept tests with notified bodies
•     Approval support (e.g. “link” to TÜV)
•     Interim safety management (e.g. to bridge personnel shortages)

Strategic project analysis

NewTec is at your side right from the product planning stage: with a strategic project analysis, we create clarity about the target group, key features and intended use of the planned product. The clearer these aspects are, the more efficient the safety-oriented engineering will be.

Building up safety know-how and processes

NewTec's safety consultants support you in building up and expanding expertise in regulatory requirements and standards such as IEC 61508 as well as functioning safety engineering processes - also with regard to the implementation of AI technologies (see below). We analyze your existing functional safety process landscape and support you in the introduction of functional safety processes and their compliance - specifically with

• Process consulting
• Conception and cost estimation
• Development of safety skills
• Education and training of methods
• Audits and assessments

We are also happy to help you develop the necessary change management skills for the development of your safety culture.

Safety plan and safety concept

We support you in creating a concept for the overall system and a system description as the basis for successful testing by TÜV.  Our experts work with you to create the safety plan and the safety concept and incorporate all normative requirements right from the start. A key component of this is a hazard and risk analysis (HARA), which identifies the potential risks and then defines the safety level (SIL, ASIL, DAL, depending on the industry) for each safety function according to its criticality.

We support you with

• system architecture
• safety plan
• Verification and validation plan (V&V plan)
• (technical) safety concept
• Safety Requirement Specification

Safety Engineering

Do you need further development support for your functional safety project? On request, we can also take on the complete safety engineering and bring our experts and safety engineers on board. Find out more here.

Security consulting - our services at a glance:

• Maturity assessment of development and support processes
• System and requirements analyses
• Seminars and training courses to build up security know-how
• Awareness workshops
• Security concepts up to architecture level
• Consulting and conception for setting up a PKI (public key infrastructure)
• Secure update strategies
• Advice and support with CC certification (Common Criteria)
• Penetration & security robustness testing
• Interim security management

Security plan and security concept

Our security consultants support you with your security plan and security concept - from threat and risk analysis (TARA) to a secure update strategy. They support manufacturers in particular when it comes to the interrelationships between cybersecurity and safety risks and the harmonization of safety and security requirements - and provide specific recommendations for action.

Security maturity assessment

Our experts can also help you with a systematic security maturity assessment. Based on the basic security standard IEC 62443 and the relevant industry-specific standards, we look together at which processes exist, which requirements are already met and which skills need to be developed or newly established.

Building up security know-how

Our team supports the development of the necessary security know-how through targeted training and seminars. Special coaching and awareness workshops also ensure that security processes are not just on paper, but are actually put into practice.

Find out more about our training courses and workshops here.

We are also happy to take on the complete security engineering and bring our experts and security engineers on board. Find out more here.