Certification of safety critical systems is our starting point, we will introduce you to the key guidelines used by the aerospace certification authorities.
(FAA, EASA, CAA and other regional authorities)
Ensuring that your Managers and Engineers understand the key concepts and understand the goals of each of the guidelines
Our training will provide an overiew of how to plan for implementation and the key issues that will delay progress in a certification programme.

Overview

Training

Introduction

This overview course is an introduction for Managers and Engineers to become more aware of the guidelines for certification.

This course is aimed at a fairly high level to ensure that everyone can learn and at the same time ask about some aspects of certification, that are fairly complex to understand or problems that your people may have encountered on real projects and need some training to understand options available to them.
This course is an ideal introduction for more intensive course that can be arranged later.

Who would benefit from the course

Everyone in your organisation can benefit, but systems, safety, quality assurance and of course hardware and software engineers and associated managers.

Key Topics

• Introduction to SAE ARP4754B, SAE ARP4761A, RTCA DO-178C, RTCA DO-254 and RTCA DO-326A
  (EASA equivalent for DO-178C is ED-12 and for DO-254 the document is ED-80.)

• First look at ARP4761A Functional Hazard Assessment, Functional Hazard and Safety Assessment

• ARP4754A and ARP4754B the key differences and it’s evolution with respect to ARP4761A

• Quality Assurance and it’s role in certification

• DO-254 (ED-80)Overview

• DO-254 Planning Process and Design Process

• DO-254 V&V, Configuration Management, Process Assurance, Liason with Certification Authorities and Life Cycle Data.

• DO -254 Considerations for outsourcing to COTS providers

• DO-178C (ED-12) Overview

• DO-178 Software Life Cycle

• DO-178C Planing, Standards and Design Process overview

• DO-178C Software Design Process

• DO-178C Software Verification Process

• DO-178C Software Configuration Management Process

• DO-178C Achieving the agreement of the authorities - Accomplishment Summary

• DO-326A Security an Introduction

• Final Discussion - Q and A