Process Consulting

What Does Really Work?

For more than a decade, we at Solcept have been living processes for efficient development ourselves. We can put this experience to good use for you. Especially the experience of how we as a small company live meaningful processes without huge quality assurance resources.

We analyze your existing working methods and then support you in establishing processes for efficient and effective product development of standard products. In addition, we also have the knowledge and experience for the processes you need for developments in functional safety and cybersecurity. In these areas we cover many different industries.

Together with you, we can build such processes and implement them in your organization.

Development Processes

How Do You Build a Viable Process Landscape?

More than ten years ago, we set out to document and continuously improve our working methods ("processes"). In doing so, we based ourselves on CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integrated) for "what" we should do. For the "how" we take a pragmatic approach and use methods from the V-Model, from Lean, from Agile, etc.

We are happy to let you benefit from this experience, especially so that smaller organizations or organizational units receive efficient templates, tools and processes quickly. There is the possibility that you can use our process descriptions and templates for a faster start.

Processes are not a destination, but a path. The goal is not to turn your company upside down, but to document the best ways of working. These can then be made available to all projects and employees and be continuously improved – both to increase your efficiency and to keep the processes viable in the fast-changing context of tools, customers, products, markets, etc.

We can guide you through this process. This means viewing the design, improvement and review of processes as a shared responsibility, with involvement from everyone. In doing so, all users of the processes can identify with them and take responsibility for „their” way of working.

As a starting point for your own process journey, we would be happy to evaluate your lived processes.

Functional Safety

How Do You Develop for Functional Safety?

Do you want to create functionally safe products?

Our many years of experience in functional safety ensures quick and practical solutions for you, from identifying applicable standards and conducting analyses, to defining processes, selecting tools, and delivering effective technical solutions. Benefit from our support through the whole development cycle, with our knowledge we are at your side.

We are active in various industries and can therefore offer you consulting on functional safety for:

Aviation / Avionics: DO-178, DO-254, ARP-4754, ARP-4761
Automotive: ISO 26262
Machinery Regulation/ Machinery Directive: ISO 13849
Medical Devices: IEC 62304
Household and Similar Use: IEC 60730
General Industry: IEC 61508/ UL 1998

You can find some information about development for functional safety in our blog, e.g. about which tasks you should expect or what effort you can anticipate for functional safety.

Cybersecurity

How Do You Protect Your Embedded System against Attacks?

You have a product that is to be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT)? You want to be sure that the data on the product is secure? That nobody can manipulate the device without permission?

Achieve with us the "hardening" of your embedded systems, from the control board to the Cloud. You benefit from a threat analysis, based on which we develop a secure architecture for your system. The fact that we consider cybersecurity not only during the operational phase but also during production and deployment means that your product is fully protected against attacks.

We support the “technical standards” for Secure by Design such as:

IEC 62443-3-3, IEC 62443-4-2
IEC 27034
ISO 21434
ETSI 303 645

In addition, we can support you in achieving the required maturity levels of the processes, e.g. as required by IEC 62443-4-1 (CMMI levels).

Tools

How Do you Really Benefit from Software Tools?

Are you using or evaluating one of the tools below? And you want to know how to use it in a pragmatic and sensible manner?

We at Solcept know these tools in detail because we use them ourselves:

Polarion (requirements, traceability, testing, documentation)
Reqtify (traceability between incompatible formats/ tools)
Apis-IQ FMEA (FMEA)
Enterprise Architect (UML documentation)
Jira/ Confluence (Issue Tracker/ Wiki)

Therefore, take advantage of our engineer-to-engineer tool consulting, including for functional safety projects. Not only that, but you also benefit from access to our best practices, templates, workflows and processes, which we are happy to customize and which we train you to use in your specific situation.