White Paper
Predictive and Prescriptive Maintenance in the Context of Automotive Functional Safety
ProteanTecs’ white paper shows how predictive and prescriptive maintenance improve automotive functional safety by anticipating and mitigating hardware failures. Using time-to-failure (TTF) predictions, manufacturers can lower failure rates, extend asset life, and enhance ISO 26262 compliance. Predictive maintenance removes at-risk devices before failure, while prescriptive strategies adjust operating conditions to slow degradation. Case examples show extending device life from 7 to 9 years and reducing FIT rates significantly. The paper calls for updating safety standards to recognize prognostic coverage, enabling proactive safety as a core metric alongside SPFM, LFM, and PMHF.
