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Safety is ASI's number one priority. Requesting a safety audit from HORIBA MIRA helps ASI evaluate and enhance its internal processes to ensure that rigorous international safety standards are continually in place to be met.


Safety is ASI’s number one priority. Requesting a safety audit from HORIBA MIRA helps ASI evaluate and enhance its internal processes to ensure that rigorous international safety standards are continually in place to be met.

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ASI is pleased to have been audited by an external auditor Dr. David Ward of HORIBA MIRA.

ASI engineering processes were reviewed over a period of 4 days this summer and the approach to the functional safety of our products was assessed against a range of international functional safety engineering standards including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 17757 and ISO 13849.

“It’s a pleasure working with HORIBA MIRA and David Ward.
He’s a professional of the utmost integrity and patience, always pragmatic and extremely knowledgeable in a broad range of sectors including Mining, Security, Agriculture and Automotive where ASI customers are realizing huge savings and productivity improvements through using our products and services,”
says Jonathan Moore, ASI Chief Engineer.

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“As autonomous solutions become more widespread in automotive and industrial applications it’s important that we demonstrate their dependability, compliance with functional safety standards is an important aspect of demonstrating a rigorous approach to product design and implementation,”
says Dr. David Ward, HORIBA MIRA.

“It’s encouraging to see a technology innovator embodying these principles as part of their core engineering processes.”

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HORIBA MIRA is a highly customer focused world class independent vehicle engineering consultancy.
HORIBA MIRA provides ground breaking engineering innovations and unrivaled testing solutions that change the way people think about the future of whole vehicle and systems technology.

ASI has been working with MIRA for over three years towards the goal of improving the reliability, standards compliance and most importantly safety of our products for all our customers.

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“Safety is a top priority for ASI and our customers.
Removing the operator from mining trucks presents a number operational and technical challenges.
Standards like ISO WD 17757 are increasingly important in our ability to ensure we manage risks associated with driverless operation and make these as low as reasonably practicable,”
says Cory Rowe, ASI Mining Product Owner.
“David’s visit has helped ensure that the people and process in place at ASI are world-class and able to demonstrate we have achieved the necessary risk reduction with our autonomous haulage products.”

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About Dr. David Ward,
HORIBA MIRA

Dr David D Ward MA PhD CEng CPhys MInstP MIEEE is General Manager of Functional Safety at HORIBA MIRA. He is a leading international expert in automotive functional safety and is the UK Principal Expert to ISO/TC22/SC3/WG16 “Road vehicles – Functional Safety” which has developed ISO 26262. Dr Ward is also the Project Leader for the software requirements of ISO 26262. Dr Ward provides expert support and advice to clients developing safety-related electronic systems and frequently acts as an independent safety assessor.

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Recent experience includes safety assessment of “drive by wire” vehicle control systems, smart sensors for industrial control and hybrid powertrain systems.

About HORIBA MIRA

HORIBA MIRA Ltd. is a world-leader in advanced engineering, research and product testing. Over 70 years we have grown into a truly international organisation with facilities located around the world. Our work spans the Automotive, Aerospace, Rail and Defence industries and includes the development of ground-breaking low carbon and autonomous vehicle technologies.

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