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Although the ISO 26262 provides requirements and recommendations for an automotive functional safety lifecycle, practical guidance on how to handle these safety activities and safety artifacts is still lacking. This paper provides an overview of a semi-formal safety engineering approach based on SysML for specifying the relevant safety artifacts in the concept phase. Using specific diagram types, different views of the available data can be provided that reflects the specific needs of the stakeholders involved. One objective of this work is to improve the common understanding of the relevant safety aspects during the system design. The approach, which is demonstrated here from the perspective of a Tier1 supplier for an automotive battery system, covers different breakdown levels of a vehicle. The safety workflow presented here supports engineers' efforts to meet the safety standard ISO 26262 in a systematic way.

Automotive electric and electronic (E/E) systems are key drivers for innovation in today's vehicles. While new functions are delivering eco-friendliness (hybrid and pure electric vehicles, etc.), assistance/comfort (drive-by-wire, park-assist, etc.) and active safety (electronic stability control, lane-change-assist, brake-assist, etc.) their inherent complexity is challenging manufacturers and suppliers. At the same time, functional safety of the product is a key issue: During the whole car's product life cycle, there are many potential risks for physical injuries, or even worse, fatalities. Therefore, these potential sources of harm should strictly be avoided. In this work, we focus on a powerful method for verification and validation activities during early phases of the development, namely simulation. Simulation is one of the main methods for verification stated by the functional safety standard ISO 26262.