Automotive electromagnetic engineering: System reliability issues and challenges

♦ Testing alone is not able to establish EM reliability ♦ an established and essential tool, but not sufficient ♦ tests need to be better understood and used ♦ Modelling and simulation ♦ benefits in design, specification, better targeted testing ♦ in use, but major technical and operational challenges ♦ like testing, too many states for comprehensive evaluation ♦ EMC is a functional safety issue ♦ SIL to identify appropriate development processes ♦ investigated in EMCATT, but not yet widely used ♦ Range of complementary approaches needed to ensure adequate levels of reliability in future systems