IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) Automotive Compliance is a solution that helps you easily tailor IBM ELM for the automotive industry. IBM ELM lets you streamline adherence to and derive value from state-of-the-art engineering practices, such as Automotive SPICE,  ISO-26262, UNECE WP.29/R155 and ISO/SAE 21434.

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• A pre-defined process, as well as corresponding workflow and reporting to work compliant with IBM tools
• Capturing and managing requirements in a pre-defined structure that supports industry-best practices
• Capturing and managing test cases in a pre-defined structure that supports industry-best practices
• Planning and tracking of tasks, risks, change requests and problems with pre-defined work items

A risk assessment is an important part of both the safety and the cybersecurity concept phases. IBM ELM Automotive Compliance supports widely used risk assessment methods Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) and Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) with explicit support for the:

• Capture of the safety elements required by ISO 26262, such as item definition, hazardous events, safety goals and safety requirements
• Calculation of Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) based on severity, exposure and controllability variables for HARA
• Identification of threat scenario and damage scenarios as a part of TARA
• Auto calculation of risk values using attack path feasibilities and overall impact of damage scenario to help determine risk during TARA

For assessments, you need a reliable end-to-end view of your engineering data. For this reason, IBM ELM Automotive Compliance includes a comprehensive set of reports. Achieve upstream and downstream traceability for:

• Requirements
• Architecture and detailed designs
• Test cases and plans

An important part in process audits is your ability to monitor and react to exceptions in your process. IBM ELM Automotive Compliance includes widgets and reports that allow you to maintain a real-time overview of:

• Velocity and progress regarding value delivery and project status
• Reports that offer an overview of reviews, change requests and risks
• Trend reports on problem resolution to predict release quality
• Reports that show process exceptions and enable you to react

Setting up engineering tools for a compliant workflow is a marathon. Process and tool limitations have to be known, scalability has to be considered and, of course, the end result has to be easy to use by users. We are prepared to provide you with:

• Pre-configured forms for change requests, risks and reviews
• Pre-configured templates for requirements, test and architecture
• Pre-configured types to capture all information required by Automotive SPICE
• Pre-configured views and reports to manage traceability and consistency

A pre-defined agile process that relies on established agile practices from SAFe, enabling you to use agile methods at scale. The process content maps agile methods to the Engineering V-model. The offering contains:

• One landing page for all relevant process groups
• Detailed overview pages for solution content per process group
• Process steps, roles and work product descriptions
• A cross-domain linking and data model that also considers process activities

During Automotive SPICE assessments, questions need to get answered to understand which Automotive SPICE base practice is fulfilled by the project. Get prepared answers to these questions in the process content, so you know exactly why and how you need to use which Automotive SPICE base practice in order to achieve proof of compliance.

• Detailed mapping of base practices to solution content included
• Understand what features and artifacts help you to be compliant