The Automotive Process Framework (APF) leverages UL Solutions’ deep expertise and decades of experience to help suppliers and manufacturers to accelerate the definition and use of standards-compliant automotive processes.
APF can help you streamline process definition and use through:
- A ready-to-use foundation for the creation of initial processes.
- Extendable processes, and work product descriptions and templates, role descriptions, and other guidelines to fit your organization’s needs.
- A cohesive process architecture that enables the definition of integrated processes that support all relevant automotive standards and best practices.
Improve compliance with standards and best practices
The APF supports the project scopes of the following standards and industry best practices:
- Automotive SPICE® v4.0 (including Hardware SPICE® and Machine Learning).
- Mechanical SPICE® v2.0.
- Agile SPICE® 1.4.1.
- ISO/SAE 21434:2021 Road Vehicles — Cybersecurity Engineering.
- ISO 26262:2018 Road Vehicles — Functional Safety.
- ISO 21488:2022 — Security of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF).
- ISO/PAS 8800:2024 Road vehicles – Safety and artificial intelligence
- Essential and Solution Train Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).
Achieve the right alignment and integration between agility and standards compliance
APF supports agile ways of working tightly integrated with the Automotive SPICE® engineering and supporting processes.
Best practices for APF adoption: Deploy early, iterate often
Accelerate success by using an iterative, incremental approach to define and use processes built on the APF foundation:
- Start with the most critical needs and focus on typical projects.
- Integrate your existing practices, templates, checklists, etc.
- Involve all stakeholders in reviews and approvals.
- Pilot with a few supportive projects as soon as possible.
APF benefits to customers
- Reduces process development time, efforts and costs when compared with creating processes from scratch.
- Provides a neutral framework that can be easily integrated into customers’ existing processes.
- Extensive project coverage and compliance mapping to Automotive SPICE® and other ISO standards.
- Flexibility to create organization-wide standard processes and tailor them to the needs of specific business units and projects.
- Focuses on systems engineering and addresses the needs of complex projects, including mechanical, hardware and software components.
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