Pictor Consulting
System Safety & Embedded Systems
Over 20 years of experience in safety-critical embedded systems across defense, telecom, and industrial sectors.
BACKGROUND
Pictor Consulting AB brings over 20 years of experience in functional safety and system architecture for safety-critical embedded systems across defense, telecom, and various industrial sectors.
Our expertise has been developed through roles such as system architect, functional safety specialist, and Safety Officer in international research and industry projects.
This extensive background enables us to support complex development programs effectively.
Our Competence Enables
- Establishing and managing system safety programs in accordance with MIL-STD-882E
- Advanced technical system safety knowledge
- Experience with high-availability platforms
- Thorough understanding of lifecycle requirements
- Full responsibility for system safety programs
Your Challenge
The Challenge
These factors demand an integrated system safety approach where risks are identified early, systematically managed, and continuously monitored throughout the system lifecycle.
- Capacity Gap
MIL-STD-882E Requirements
Compliance with MIL-STD-882E requires:
- Structured process for risk identification
- Risk classification
- Action planning
- Verification
- Clear traceability among risks, requirements, design decisions, and verification activities
Our Offer: Interim Safety Manager
System Safety Program Management
- Establishes a comprehensive system safety program aligned with MIL-STD-882E and relevant customer and authority requirements
- Develops a System Safety Program Plan (SSPP) that outlines strategies for risk analysis, risk management, verification, and reporting
- Ensures system safety is integrated into program governance, architectural decisions, requirements management, and technical reviews
Risk Analysis and Risk Management
- Leads risk identification workshops and company-specific training sessions with system engineers, domain experts, and operational users
- Conducts and coordinates analyses: Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), Operating & Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA)
- Establishes and maintains a structured risk log, ensuring clear traceability from risk to requirement, mitigation measures, and verified actions
Documentation, Audits, and Customer Dialogue
- Interprets and adapts MIL-STD-882E to your specific system, procurement requirements, and applicable defense authority guidelines
- Defines safety-related deliverables and ensures integration into the project's CDRL/delivery plan
- Provides advice on safety-critical system architecture: redundancy, monitoring, fail-safe/fail-operational strategies
- Develops and quality-assures system safety documentation: SSPP, risk analyses, risk reports, safety evidence
- Prepares and supports internal/external audits and technical reviews
- Acts as the primary point of contact for system safety matters with customers, subcontractors, and authority representatives
Areas of Competence
MIL-STD-882E
Hazard Analysis
Fail-Safe / Fail-Operational
High-Availability
Lifecycle Management
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Staffan Skogby
CEO & Senior System Architect
Kjell-Åke Grandin
Senior Advisor
Anders Lundvall
Telecom Expert
EURPEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Pictor Consulting has since many years been engaged in pan-European R&D projects, ensuring competence development.
ITEA BUMBLE
Pictor Consulting AB participates in the ITEA research project BUMBLE that aims at improving the current state-of-the-art modeling tools. The ability to freely mix notations is a core ingredient to build suitable DSMLs (Domain-Specific Modelling Language) that support their users for the task at hand.
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) allow the development of applications based on the definition of models closer to the problem domain than to the implementation domain, alleviating the complexity of platforms. MDE makes uses of DSMLs, which today are limited to one specific domain in one specific notation (such as text, diagrams, tables or forms).
The human communication, especially across engineering disciplines, can be improved by the blended and collaborative support that BUMBLE provides.
HEALTH5G
Emerging network technologies, including the next generation mobile technology (5G), will form the backbone of future healthcare. 5G is a key enabling technology for the Internet of Things, Smart Pharmaceuticals, and Individualized Medicine. The features of 5G, such as low latency, reliability, performance, and flexibility, enable novel features to and better quality of eHealth services. The aim of our project is to identify novel use cases of eHealth that take advantage of 5G capabilities, study and develop 5G enablers for the use cases, develop and validate actual eHealth solutions in real environments and real 5G test networks, and disseminate and exploit the results.
The project will study selected high-impact and industry-driven use cases for future eHealth enabled by 5G. So far, we have identified three potential eHealth scenarios: healthcare@home, hospital environment of the future, and emergency situations; all including technology-focused sub-use cases benefitting from 5G. The aim is to refine the scenarios and use cases during the project together with partners in order to increase the societal, business, and scientific impacts of the project.
Conclusion and outlook: During Health5G, the consortium took valuable steps to reap rewards of 5G wireless technologies and advanced medical applications that rely on ubiquitous sensing and computing. A careful analysis of the needs of patients and healthcare providers will help pave the way for healthcare services of the future.
SafeCOP
SafeCOP is a European project that targets cyber-physical systems-of-systems whose safe cooperation relies on wireless communication. In particular, SafeCOP will provide an approach to the safety assurance of such systems in the healthcare, maritime, vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure sectors.
AMASS (ECSEL)
Architecture-driven, Multi-concern and Seamless Assurance and Certification of Cyber-Physical Systems
AMASS (Architecture-driven, Multi-concern and Seamless Assurance and Certification of Cyber-Physical Systems) will create and consolidate the de-facto European-wide open tool platform, ecosystem, and self-sustainable community for assurance and certification of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the largest industrial vertical markets including automotive, railway, aerospace, space, and energy.
The ultimate goal of AMASS is to lower certification costs for CPS in face of rapidly changing features and market needs. This will be achieved by establishing a novel holistic and reuse-oriented approach for architecture-driven assurance (fully compatible with standards such as AUTOSAR and IMA), multi-concern assurance (for co-analysis and co-assurance of e.g. security and safety aspects), and for seamless interoperability between assurance and engineering activities along with third-party activities (e.g. external assessments and supplier assurance).
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