Proposals for Change in Automotive EMC Standardization and Engineering Practices

Current automotive EMC engineering practices have served the industry well over many decades. In more recent years, however, the nature of vehicle electronic systems has begun to develop in ways that are leading to fundamental changes in the nature of road vehicles. The speed and nature of these changes are now becoming such that traditional assurance approaches based on prescriptive standards are beginning to struggle to keep pace with emerging technological changes. It is considered that moving towards the goal-based assurance and risk-based engineering approaches that are already used in other aspects of the engineering of complex systems would provide the basis of more sustainable assurance and engineering processes for automotive EMC engineering in the future.