Challenge
Under a new UNECE regulation, vehicle manufacturers must demonstrate a management system for software updates - requirement- and process-based, with unambiguous software identification per vehicle. Existing change and approval processes ran largely on paper and spreadsheets.
Solution
We implemented process and software for the regulatory toolchain and integrated it into the existing software change process:
- Digital change and approval board for control units, with a tool-generated agenda from change requests.
- Approval for series production as a secured workflow.
- Central evidence list of all control units subject to documentation - moved from spreadsheets to an application, with fixed versioning, status workflow, archiving and fine-grained permissions.
- Software identification and evidence for type approval, provided event-driven to adjacent systems.
Result
- Successful certification of the systems.
- Complete digitalisation of formerly paper-based processes.
- Traceable approvals, archiving and data provision for third-party systems.
Why this matters for AI: the EU AI Act asks for similar evidence - inventory, roles, documentation, approvals. Having built regulation as a workflow once, we know how to make it auditable without slowing development down.
* Project: we owned the delivery
