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Product Quality and Safety

Product Quality and Safety

Veoneer has a long industry experience and heritage of creating proven solutions that save lives in real-life traffic situations. People trust their lives with our automotive solutions and innovation, reliability and quality are key for creating trust in mobility.  

Human-centric innovations

A human-centric approach to innovation is fundamental to innovate systems and tools that will improve convenience and reduce traffic fatalities. This human-centric approach paired with a thorough understanding of our customers’ priorities and challenges is vital for creating products that will make an impact.

Veoneer has delivered more than 1 billion electric control units and crash sensors to car manufacturers globally.

Product quality and safety

As a leading autotech company, our core strategy is to deliver innovative solutions that car manufacturers and drivers can trust with their lives if necessary. Veoneer continues to build on its track record of delivering high quality products. Priority focus is placed on preventing quality defects from impacting both Veoneer’s customers, as well as the consumer. All Veoneer facilities (manufacturing plants, technical centers and logistics centers) record their performance against key quality targets and these results are reviewed by senior managers monthly. A key metric is the non-conforming events recorded for serial production, prototype delivery and logistics management. 

Quality is a core pillar of the product development system. A special focus has been put on software development for which compliance to industry standards, such as Automotive SPICE, is assessed. This quality assurance work is extended to cover all aspects of the product development process. 

Each site conducts periodic management reviews per the automotive IATF1694:2016 standard to ensure suitability, adequacy, effectiveness and consistency of Veoneer’s Quality Management System.

End-to-end security

To address the increasing cyber security risk, Veoneer has established an end-to-end cyber security protection program from the first day of operations to ensure the integrity of any delivered software code, protecting company assets and is fully committed to protect personal data with a dedicated data privacy program. 

One key area for Veoneer is to deliver software in our products that our customers can trust. Veoneer has developed and patented a block chain based technology to ensure software integrity of our products, Encryption of software on delivered ECUs has become standard. At the end of 2021, Veoneer implemented a Cyber Security Management System and Software Update Management System, one year ahead of the UNECE regulation.

A constant monitoring of vulnerabilities is a key aspect in the new regulation UNECE WP.29 CS & OTA and in standards like the ISO/ SEA 21434. Veoneer has established a dedicated Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) which is operational.

To protect the company’s intellectual property, as well as customer or supplier data, Veoneer has invested in strong cyber security protection and monitoring mechanisms. A dedicated team of internal and external experts are monitoring Veoneer’s network to increase data and privacy protection, and find anomalies employing advanced machine learning capabilities. There is no 100% guarantee of cyber security, but the team is constantly increasing its knowledge and investing in new technologies. All employees and contractors are also continuously informed about cyber security with monthly mandatory security trainings.

Life-cycle perspective

We continually improve our environmental sustainability by developing and producing products that minimize our environmental footprint throughout the entire value chain, from sourcing the best materials and components to optimizing production processes . We support our customers in developing products that will provide future fuel/energy savings and we work jointly with our suppliers and customers to optimize the supply chain.
 

Continuous Improvements

When designing products and systems, we strive for increased safety and less environmental impact during the entire life-cycle. We are committed to take part in enabling a carbon-free automotive future by inventing and implementing technologies supporting usage of recyclable hardware with less components, less weight and less power consumption while in use, reuse of data and energy efficient, scalable software architectures. Less weight and smaller housing can have positive impact on the vehicles fuel consumption. With a regional set-up of manufacturing facilities, conscious transportation routes, using carriers with low carbon emissions, and  more sensors per pallet, carbon emissions in transportation to customers are also lower.

 

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