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Cross-industry and CRA

A ready-to-tailor process framework that helps manufacturers translate EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements into governed engineering activities, responsibilities and evidence across the product lifecycle—supporting consistent, audit-ready compliance with Stages and CRA Companion.

Why it matters: A practical foundation for EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance readiness

The EU Cyber Resilience Act introduces sweeping cybersecurity obligations for products with digital elements — spanning secure development, vulnerability handling, technical documentation, and end-of-life support. Turning those obligations into day-to-day engineering practice is the hard part.

The Industry Process Framework with CRA Support gives manufacturers a practical, ready-to-tailor foundation for organizing CRA compliance activities: linking regulatory obligations to concrete process steps, responsibilities, and evidence artifacts so teams can build a more consistent, audit-ready approach to cybersecurity compliance.

As a variant of UL Solutions' proven process frameworks, manufacturers can benefit from a mature, field-tested foundation rather than a blank slate.

What it is: Everything you need to operationalize CRA readiness

Six core capabilities designed to turn regulatory requirements into repeatable, governed engineering practice.

Customer-tailorable process templates

Structured process content that manufacturers can adapt to define their own development processes, incorporating CRA-relevant activities across the full product lifecycle.

CRA requirement-to-evidence mapping

Links CRA obligations to expected process outputs that serve as evidence artifacts to support more consistent readiness planning.

Lifecycle coverage for cybersecurity compliance

Supports key CRA-related processes such as secure development, vulnerability handling, risk assessment, technical documentation, support, and end-of-life planning.

Designed for embedded and connected products

Reflects the needs of manufacturers of products with digital elements, including firmware, software components, SBOM-related practices, and supplier evidence considerations.

Integrated multi-standard compliance

Provides an integrated management solution covering additional compliance requirements, including cybersecurity, safety and other product-specific standards.

Works with Stages and CRA Companion

Use with Stages for governed process execution, and with CRA Companion for evidence analysis, SBOM vulnerability insight, and compliance status sharing.

How it works: From framework to audit-ready practice

A straightforward path from adopting the framework to sustaining CRA-relevant evidence over the product lifecycle.

Import the Industry Process Framework into your Stages instance and use it as a basis for your organization's development model.

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Import the Industry Process Framework into your Stages instance and use it as a basis for your organization's development model.

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