Development and Validation of an Integrated Functional Safety and Reliability Engineering Framework for Robust Electric Vehicles
The increasing complexity of electric vehicle (EV) systems driven by electrification, software-intensive control, and advanced user interfaces, creates new challenges in ensuring both functional safety and long-term reliability.
The webinar will present an integrated engineering framework that unifies functional safety processes defined by ISO 26262 with quantitative reliability engineering methods, addressing the limitations of treating these disciplines independently. The approach embeds hazard analysis, risk assessment, and safety goal development alongside tools such as Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), reliability block diagrams, and physics-of-failure modelling to enable concurrent safety assurance and reliability prediction. By aligning safety integrity requirements with measurable reliability targets early in the design lifecycle, the framework supports proactive mitigation of degradation and latent failure modes under real-world stresses. The methodology also incorporates data-driven analytics and predictive techniques to enhance diagnostics, maintenance strategies, and lifecycle dependability of EV power electronics and control units.
This webinar will be of particular interest to professionals involved in the design, assurance, and lifecycle management of safety-critical systems as it addresses the critical need to integrate functional safety and reliability engineering in complex, safety-critical systems such as electric vehicles. It highlights how treating safety and reliability separately can lead to inconsistent assumptions and overlooked degradation mechanisms, and proposes a unified lifecycle framework to mitigate these risks.
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Our speakers for the event are Dr P. Arjunraj and M Sudalai
Dr. P. Arjunraj is a Principal Engineer at IndiaVP Semiconductor with extensive experience in automotive engineering, functional safety, and value engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Automobile Engineering and is a Certified Value Specialist (CVS), the highest certification in value engineering. He is the author of four technical books covering Value Engineering and Functional Safety and has published numerous research papers presented at international conferences. His professional career includes key roles at BEML, Mahindra & Mahindra, Stellantis, and Ola Electric. He has received several international awards and actively contributes to technical training, workshops, and industry–academia knowledge sharing initiatives.
M. Sudalai is a Functional Safety and Reliability Engineer with over eight years of experience in automotive and electric vehicle development, specialising in validation, durability, and reliability engineering. He has strong expertise in ISO 26262 verification and validation, DFMEA, and environmental and vibration testing of EV power electronics and control units. He has worked with organizations such as Mahindra & Mahindra, Ola Electric, and IndiaVP Semiconductor, contributing to reliability qualification, failure analysis, and safety-critical system validation. His work focuses on translating safety and reliability requirements into practical testing and data-driven engineering solutions for robust EV product development.
The webinar will start at 12:30 UK time and will last for 75 minutes.
Starts
Wednesday, 27th May 2026 at 12:30pm
Ends
Wednesday, 27th May 2026 at 1:45pm