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Steps

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1. Navigate to the Safety Readiness Scorecard

From the Home Dashboard, click the Safety Readiness Scorecard link under the Reports section. You’ll see a table showing compliance scores per standard.

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2. Understand the Metrics Columns

The scorecard displays five metric types for each standard:
StandardRequirements %Traceability %Verification %FMEA Coverage %Doc StatusOverall
ISO 26262-4 (System)87.1%100.0%83.9%100.0%4 specs92%
AIAG-VDA FMEAN/AN/AN/A94.2%23 specs94%
Each metric measures a different compliance dimension:
  • Requirements %: Work items with at least one traceability link ÷ total work items of that type
  • Traceability %: Work items with any outgoing or incoming link (refines, verifies, validates, mitigates, assesses) ÷ total
  • Verification %: Requirements with back-linked test cases via verifies or validates roles ÷ total requirements
  • FMEA Coverage %: Failure modes with post-mitigation Action Priority set ÷ total failure modes
  • Doc Status: Count of specification documents of the relevant type (informational only, not a percentage)
  • Overall: Arithmetic mean of applicable numeric metrics (N/A values excluded from average)
Click any percentage value to drill down to the gap query showing which work items are not yet compliant. This opens a Polarion work item table filtered to non-conforming items.

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3. Interpret ISO 26262 Part-Level Scores

ISO 26262 functional safety is broken down by V-model phase:
  • Part 3 (Concept): HARA hazards and safety goals. Verify 100% hazards have ASIL assigned and safety goals derived.
  • Part 4 (System Design): System requirements, system-level FMEA, traceability to safety goals. Target ≥90% for automotive OEM acceptance.
  • Part 5 (Hardware Design): Design requirements, component-level DFMEA, verification test cases. Target ≥95% for hardware release.
  • Part 6 (Software Development): Software requirements, software verification. Target 100% for safety-critical software.
Low Verification % in Part 4 or Part 5 indicates missing test cases. ISO 26262 requires bidirectional traceability between requirements and verification activities. Add verification test cases linked via the verifies role to close gaps.

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4. Interpret AIAG-VDA FMEA Coverage

The FMEA Coverage % metric measures completeness of risk mitigation analysis:
  • Numerator: Failure modes with postmitigationAP (Design FMEA) or pfmAPPost (Process FMEA) enumeration set
  • Denominator: Total failure mode work items across all FMEA documents
Action Priority values:
  • L (Low): Post-mitigation S×O×D yields low risk
  • M (Medium): Moderate residual risk, consider additional controls
  • H (High): High residual risk, mandatory additional risk controls required
FMEA Coverage below 90% indicates incomplete risk analysis. Every failure mode must have pre-mitigation ratings (Severity, Occurrence, Detection), linked risk controls, and post-mitigation ratings to comply with AIAG-VDA FMEA Handbook.

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5. Interpret IATF 16949 APQP Metrics

IATF 16949 compliance focuses on special characteristics and control plan coverage:
  • Requirements %: Characteristics work items with classification field set to SC (Safety Critical) or CC (Critical Component)
  • Traceability %: Characteristics linked to failure modes (FMEA) and control plan items (APQP)
  • Doc Status: Count of control plan documents and process flow diagrams
Target ≥80% for PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) submission.
Use the Characteristics PowerSheet to bulk-edit SC/CC classifications and verify linkage to FMEA failure modes. Filter by classification IS EMPTY to find unclassified characteristics.

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6. Interpret Overall Compliance Score

The Overall column shows the average of all applicable metrics for that standard. This provides a single readiness indicator:
  • ≥95%: Ready for baseline or release
  • 85-94%: Near completion, address remaining gaps
  • 70-84%: Moderate completeness, systematic gap closure needed
  • <70%: Early stage, significant work remaining
N/A metrics are excluded from the average. For example, AIAG-VDA FMEA only measures FMEA Coverage %, so Overall equals FMEA Coverage % directly.

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7. Use Standards Compliance Overview for Trend Analysis

Navigate to Standards Compliance Overview from the Home Dashboard. This page shows the same metrics in a per-standard drill-down format with color-coded traffic lights:
  • Green: ≥90% compliance
  • Orange: 70-89% compliance
  • Red: <70% compliance
Each row includes a Gap Count showing the number of non-compliant work items. Click the count to view the gap query.

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Verification

You should now see:
  • Percentage scores for each standard and metric type
  • Color-coded compliance levels (green/orange/red)
  • Clickable gap counts that open filtered work item tables
  • Overall readiness score per standard

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