DO-254

ABD0200

ARP 4761
ABD0100
ARP 4754
DO-178B/C

Interactive Guidance for Safety Critical Avionics

• visualizing certification contexts
• managing process complexity
• tracing project progress
• accelerating documentation issues
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THE PROBLEM: The following questions illustrate some challenges in designing and developing safety critical avionics.

Which tasks are

Which standards do I assigned to me?
have to consider?

Which parts of the standards

are relevant to me?

How can I become fa-

miliar with the relevant
standards?

How can I ensure to

keep my project on
time?

Which processes do I
need to follow?

How do I apply a standard

appropriately?
How do I avoid costly
process errors?

Which documents are mandatory

for certification?
Which documents do
I have to create?
What do I do if there is
more than one standard?

How do I ensure How can I easily produce

the quality of the the required documents?
documents?

How do I avoid preparing unnecessary What do I have to take into

documentation? consideration if there is a
new standard?

Do I have to issue documents How do I know that there is a

formatted in a specific way? new standard?
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THE SOLUTION: The following screenshots show the AET during use.
INFO:
• Home screen of the AET which enables functional level selection.
• A functional level determines whether an aircraft function, system or equipment is going to be designed or developed.
• Requirements for a functional level arise from the next higher level.
• Navigation into a more detailed view occurs via smart-tags.

1. Functional Levels INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND SPECIFIC DIRECTIVES:

ARP 4761 (Aerospace Recommended Practice): Guidelines for

conducting an industry accepted safety assessment.
ARP 4754 (Aerospace Recommendended Practice): Certifica-
tion aspects of highly-integrated or complex systems installed
on aircraft.
ABD0200 (Airbus Directive): Special effort needed in the early
phases of the system design process to produce products for use
in Airbus aircraft.
ABD0100 (Airbus Directive): General design requirements to be
fulfilled by the suppliers of equipment for use in Airbus aircraft.
DO-178B/C (Design Organisation): Aspects of airworthiness
certification that pertain to the production of software for air-
borne systems and equipment used on aircraft or engines.
DO-254 (Design Organisation): Design assurance guidance for
airborne electronic hardware.

INFO: Roles
• A life cycle processes survey (roles and phases)
which depends on the functional level selection.
• During the individual phases all processes are
• The life cycle processes involve four roles: Design, Verification (V&V),
performed concurrently. The integral processes
Configuration Management (CM) and Quality Assurance (QA).
(V&V, CM and QA) depend on the development
process (Design). • The roles differ in their objectives, activities and documents.
• Processes run iteratively depending on the • The life cycle processes of the roles V&V, CM and QA are called integ-
transition criteria specified during the planning ral processes. Their purpose is to ensure the correctness (V&V),
phase. control (CM) and confidence (QA) of the Design processes and their
outputs.

2. Life Cycle Processes




Definition and coordinati-

on of the activities.


 

Production of the re-

quested product as well
as examination of the
development processes
and output data.


 

Assurance of communi-
cation and understanding
between the applicant
and the certification
authority.
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INFO:
• The Process- and Activity-Workflow diagrams depend on the selected life cycle process.
• They are divided into blocks of columns which are composed according to their semantics.
• The two right-hand blocks of columns always refer the block of columns to their left. Relationships between the blocks of columns are
represented by the position and colour of the elements.
• Most elements provide additional information in tooltips.

3. Process-Workflow

Del: Delivery Mandatory (free format)

Del*: Delivery Mandatory + A4 or US equ.
Format
Req: Delivery upon Request (free format)

Provides information on how

the life cycle data need to be

 
submitted depending on the
 
 
   safety-level.
Provides information
on which process-
steps need to be
performed. The
selected smart-tag
leads to the Activity-
Workflow.

Provides information
Provides information Provides information on
on the associated
on which data need to which data need to be
standards and directives.
be available to perform produced. The smart-tags
The smart-tags provide
the required process provide a template for the
text passages cited from
step or activity. required document.
the associated norms.

4. Activity-Workflow

The activity should be performed

with independence (V&V, QA).
The activity should be performed.
Blank - Performance of activity is
at applicant‘s discretion.
Provides information on which
activites need to be performed
depending on the safety-level.
Provides information
Define the software develop- on which activities
ment and integral processes need to be performed.
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ADVANTAGES:
The AET...
• offers additional, custom-fit information for designing and developing safety critical avionics.
• tells the user what he has to do at every process-step.
• enables autonomous familiarization with avionics certification.
• hides all irrelevant information from the user.
• provides best practices.
• visualizes complex processes, simplifies correlations and helps the user to stay orientated.
• guides the user precisely through the life cycle processes via step-by-step instructions.
• ensures that all assigned tasks can be executed in time.
• deals with both international standards as well as specific directives.
• prescribes which documents have to be produced in which sequence and at which moment.
• distinguishes between mandatory and optional documents.
• supports the preparation of documents via tailored templates.
• improves documentation quality.
• knows which format certification documents must have.
• helps prevent too much documentation.
• is constantly updated.
• makes alterations to the standards transparent.
• reduces time and costs of certifying avionics.
 The Aviation Engineering Tool guides users through the planning, development and certification phase
of avionics engineering. In these phases, users have to follow a number of prescribed lifecycle processes
in order to follow standards of avionics design and development and comply with airworthiness requi-
rements. The AET gives an overview of all these processes in consideration of international standards
like DO-178B and DO-254 as well as specific directives such as ABD 100 and ABD 200. It makes them
convenient via step-by-step instructions. It provides additional information and custom-fit assistance
for every process step and activity. The AET manages multiple roles – Design, Verification (V&V), Con-
figuration Management (CM), Quality Assurance (QA) – and solves both general and role-specific user
questions.

The AET includes

• objectives for lifecycle processes,
• descriptions of process steps and activities for achieving those objectives,
• mechanisms for progress monitoring as well as
• templates for the preparation of the required lifecycle documents.

The AET is likewise suitable for OEMs and SMEs. The AET is designed as a complement to existing engi-
neering solutions and can easily be adapted to individual customer needs.

Funded by:

WIHM-Tech GmbH cbprocess GmbH & Co. KG - BIBA - Bremer Institut für
Konsul-Smidt-Str. 8T Context Based Process Produktion und Logistik GmbH
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