IATF 16949 is the automotive industry's quality management system standard, used together with ISO 9001 by suppliers of parts and processed materials for road vehicles. This free course explains the current 2016 edition and its planned revision, the clause structure, customer-specific requirements, daily practice in a plant, and how IATF certification works.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
VDA 6.3 is the German automotive industry's process audit method, used by carmakers and suppliers to judge development, purchasing and production processes. This free course explains the 2023 edition: process elements P1 to P7, the turtle-based production audit, 10-8-6-4-0 scoring, A/B/C classification with downgrading rules, auditor qualification and how to run an audit.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
The Automotive Core Tools are the six linked quality methods suppliers use to plan, analyse, measure, control and approve new parts: APQP, FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC and PPAP. This free course explains each tool, the current AIAG and AIAG-VDA editions, how the outputs connect, and how a supplier uses them to reach PPAP approval.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO 21448 (SOTIF) is the road-vehicle standard for hazards that arise when a sensor-based feature works as built but its specification or performance is not good enough, or when people misuse it in foreseeable ways. This free course explains the 2022 edition: key terms, the four scenario areas, the activity flow from hazard analysis to field monitoring, and a worked emergency-braking example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO 24089:2023 is the international standard for software update engineering in road vehicles, covering how software is changed in vehicles after initial development, over the air or in the workshop. This free course explains its six requirement levels, key terms such as targets, recipients, packages and campaigns, how it supports UN R156 compliance, and how to apply it in practice.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
UN Regulation No. 155 is the UNECE vehicle regulation that makes cyber security a condition of type approval: manufacturers need a certified cyber security management system and proof that each vehicle type is protected. This free course explains its structure, Annex 5 threats and mitigations, the approval process, lifecycle duties and its links to UN R156 and ISO/SAE 21434.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
UN Regulation No. 156 is the UNECE type-approval regulation for vehicle software updates, mandatory in the EU and other applying countries. This free course explains the Software Update Management System (SUMS), the RXSWIN identifier, safe over-the-air updates, the two approvals involved, the 01 series of amendments and how R156 relates to R155 and ISO 24089.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO/PAS 8800 is the ISO specification for the safety of AI, especially machine learning, in road vehicles. It extends functional safety and SOTIF to trained models. This free course explains the 2024 edition: the three causes of AI errors, AI safety requirements and input space, the dataset lifecycle, verification, assurance arguments and field monitoring, with a worked perception example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO/TS 5083:2025 is the ISO Technical Specification for designing, verifying and validating safe level 3 and level 4 automated driving systems in cars, trucks and buses. This free course explains its origins in SaFAD and ISO/TR 4804, key terms, the safety strategy, safety by design, validation, field operation and the safety case, with a worked example of an automated shuttle.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO 34502 is the ISO framework for evaluating the safety of automated driving systems through test scenarios rather than test mileage. This free course explains the 2022 edition: its eight-step process, critical scenarios built from perception, traffic and vehicle control risk factors, test platforms and safety evaluation, its link to SOTIF, and a motorway worked example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO 34503:2023 is the international standard for describing the operational design domain (ODD) of an automated driving system: the road, weather, lighting, connectivity and traffic conditions it is designed for. This free course explains its taxonomy, definition modes and qualifiers, ODD versus target domain, monitoring and scenario-based testing, with a worked shuttle example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
EN 50716:2023 is the CENELEC standard for developing, deploying and maintaining software for railway signalling and on-board rolling stock systems, replacing EN 50128 and EN 50657. This free course explains software integrity levels, the lifecycle and documents, roles and independence, tool classes, assessment, and a worked signalling example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
EN 50126 is the CENELEC railway standard for specifying and demonstrating reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) across a system's lifecycle. This free course explains its two parts, the twelve lifecycle phases, risk acceptance principles, tolerable hazard rates and SIL derivation, hazard logs and safety cases, assessment, and its links to EN 50129 and EN 50716.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
EN 50129 is the CENELEC standard for safety-related electronic systems used in railway signalling, now in its 2026 edition. This free course explains its scope, hazard-to-SIL derivation, fail-safe design, the three kinds of evidence, the structure of a safety case, generic and specific application safety cases, independent assessment and how it fits with EN 50126 and EN 50716.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ISO 14971 is the international standard for managing the safety risks of medical devices, including software and in vitro diagnostics, across their whole life cycle. This free course teaches the 2019 edition: its vocabulary, the process from risk analysis to risk control and post-production monitoring, how conformity is assessed, and a worked example of a home syringe driver.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
IEC 62366-1 is the international standard for applying usability engineering to medical devices so that use-related risks are found and controlled. This free course explains the 2015+A1:2020 edition, its vocabulary, the nine-step process, formative and summative evaluation, links to ISO 14971 and regulators, and a worked auto-injector example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
IEC 81001-5-1 is the international standard that adds security activities to every stage of the health software life cycle, from planning and threat modelling to security testing, release and vulnerability handling. This free course explains the 2021 edition, its IEC 62304-aligned structure, how conformity is shown to the FDA and EU notified bodies, and a worked example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
IEC 82304-1 is the international standard for the safety and security of stand-alone health software products that run on phones, computers and cloud platforms. This free course explains the 2016 edition: its scope, product requirements, link to IEC 62304, product validation, accompanying documents, post-market duties and decommissioning, with a worked example of a recovery app.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
IEC 61511 is the international functional safety standard for safety instrumented systems in the process industries. This free course teaches Edition 2 (2016): key terms, the parts and clauses, the safety lifecycle, how SIL targets are set with LOPA and then verified, assessment and compliance evidence, and a worked tank overfill example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
IEC 62061 is the international functional safety standard for safety-related control systems of machinery, a sector standard within the IEC 61508 framework. This free course explains the 2021 edition: core terms, SIL assignment, subsystem design and PFH, software and parameters, validation, compliance evidence and how it relates to ISO 13849-1.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
SAE ARP4754B (with its European twin EUROCAE ED-79B, December 2023) is the industry guidance for developing civil aircraft and systems with development assurance matched to safety severity. This free course explains functions, systems and items, FDAL and IDAL, requirements validation and verification, the integral processes, compliance with authorities and a worked braking-system example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
SAE ARP4761A (with its European twin EUROCAE ED-135, December 2023) is the aerospace recommended practice for assessing the safety of civil aircraft, systems and equipment. This free course explains failure conditions and severity classes, the AFHA, PASA, SFHA, PSSA, SSA and ASA steps, fault trees, FMEA and common cause analyses, development assurance levels and a worked brake system example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
RTCA DO-326A and EUROCAE ED-202A set out the process for showing an aviation authority that deliberate electronic attacks cannot make an aircraft unsafe. This free course explains the seven-step airworthiness security process, threat scenarios and conditions, risk acceptability, security assurance levels, approval and a worked connectivity example.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ECSS-E-ST-40C Rev.1 (April 2025) is the European space standard for engineering software in space, launch and ground segments. This free course explains its customer-supplier model, software processes, files and reviews, criticality categories and tailoring, the new security process and code checks, and how it works with ECSS-Q-ST-80C.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
ECSS-Q-ST-80C Rev.2 (April 2025) is the European space standard for software product assurance, used on ESA and other European space projects. This free course explains its scope and structure, software criticality categories and tailoring, the PA plan and milestone reports, problem and nonconformance handling, reuse, tools, the new security assurance requirements, and how compliance is shown to the customer.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
AS9100 (IAQG 9100, also published as EN 9100 and JIS Q 9100) is the quality management system standard for aviation, space and defence, built on ISO 9001. This free course explains the current Revision D and the coming IA9100, key aerospace concepts, the clause structure, daily practice in design and production, and how certification and OASIS work.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.
AIAG CQI-34, the Software Assurance Approval Process (SwAAP), gives automotive customers and suppliers one PPAP-style way to approve software and manage its changes. This free course explains its purpose and scope, the building blocks of a software approval package, approval outcomes, change re-approval and how it relates to Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262 and UN R156.
Free course: a 60-minute tutorial with diagrams, a 25-question knowledge check and a certificate you can verify online.