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Safety Engineering, Safety Management, System Safety, Functional Safety and Co.: In this podcast, experts from a wide variety of areas have their say on safety. The domestic and international guests talk about their work, their special topics and current topics. The podcast ist hosted by Florian Wagner.

The podcast is hosted on anchor.fm at home and on the following platforms, among others: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Breaker, Radio Public

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Simon Leitner is the CEO and founder of Condignum, a cybersecurity company based in Vienna. He has been primarily involved in cybersecurity over the last 10 years.

NIS2, a new EU directive on cybersecurity, comes into effect from October 2024. The intensified measures and reporting obligations defined therein affect many companies. In a conversation with Simon Leitner, the discussion focused on what NIS2 specifically demands, who it impacts, and how these requirements can be met.

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Mark A. Vernacchia is a GM Technical Fellow and is the Principal System Safety Engineer for all GM propulsion systems worldwide. Mark received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MS in Engineering Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He has been listed on 24 control system based patents as an inventor. Mark is a Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan and is recognized as an Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) by the International Council of Systems Engineers (INCOSE).

In this episode, Mark talked about SAE J3187, a recommended practice for evaluations of automotive related safety-critical systems using the system-theoretic process analysis STPA. Goal of this document is to provide both educational materials and lessons-learned gained by STPA practitioners. Further, Mark talked about his experiences using STPA and being a task force leader developing the recommened practice.

There will be a major update of SAE J3187 in the first quarter of 2023.

Additional sources of information and links mentioned in the podcast:

  • For info about STAMP and the next STAMP workshop go to: PSAS website
  • A list of presentations by Mark on STPA can be found here: Vernacchia STPA presentations
  • The STPA-handbook can be found here: STPA-handbook
  • You may reach out to Mark A. Vernacchia via email: firstname.a.lastname [a] gm.com (replace firstname and lastname by, ail address is not pasted directly to avoid spam mails)

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Lydia Kaiser has been ECDF Professor for "Digital Engineering 4.0" at the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management at the TU Berlin since March 2021. ECDF stands for "Einstein Center Digital Future". She did her doctorate on the topic "Framework for modeling a plausible system structure of mechatronic systems". She then worked on systems engineering and specifically model-based systems engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronics Design IEM in Paderborn. There she was also a group leader and later a department leader.

In this episode she talks about her research and teaching as well as her experiences in practice and in cooperation with companies. Her research revolves around the change in industry that is driven by digitization processes. Above all, she wants to look at questions comprehensively, i.e. from a socio-technical and interdisciplinary perspective.

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