Automotive Software Quality & Safety certification award ceremony
Recently, the LIGOO AUTOSQS Automotive Software Quality & Safety certification award ceremony was held in Hefei, Anhui. LIGOO CEO Liu Yong, Zhai Hongbao, head of automotive business at the CEPREI Certification Body, and other relevant personnel attended the event.
At the meeting, LIGOO’s certification journey was reviewed, and it was officially announced that the company had successfully passed the rigorous audit conducted by the CEPREI Certification Body in accordance with the Automotive Software Quality & Safety (AUTOSQS) management-system requirements, and had been awarded the AUTOSQS certificate.
This certification marks LIGOO as the first enterprise in the battery management system (BMS) field to pass this certification. It not only demonstrates the company’s profound professional accumulation and excellent quality-control level in automotive electronic software development, but also injects new momentum into its sustained technological leadership and market competitiveness amid the intelligent and electrified waves of the automotive industry.
System First: Building the Foundation of Certification with a Professional Team
In the wave of the automotive ‘New Four Modernizations’ (electrification, connectivity, intelligence, and sharing), software has become the core that defines a vehicle’s performance, safety, and experience.
The ‘Automotive Software Quality & Safety Standard’ (AutoSQS) integrates for the first time the common software requirements of automotive quality, functional safety, expected functional safety, and information security, and—combined with the best practices of Chinese automotive enterprises in the intelligent-connectivity field—provides a unified, integrated system architecture and implementation guidelines for automotive software quality and safety management.
The AUTOSQS certification is not a single-product audit, but a systematic ‘physical examination’ of the enterprise’s entire software engineering management system (including process standardization, risk control, quality assurance, and continuous-improvement capability).
To meet this challenge, LIGOO formed a cross-departmental dedicated system-building team, whose core members all possess extensive experience in deploying functional safety and cyber security. From standard interpretation and process integration to full-domain practice, the team launched a months-long campaign.
The process was full of challenges: it required not only embedding the multiple common requirements of quality, functional safety, and information security fused in the AutoSQS standard into the company’s existing agile development process, but also establishing and improving a full-lifecycle quality-assurance and risk-control mechanism covering requirements, design, implementation, verification, and release; moreover, it demanded that every process requirement be strictly executed and its evidence solidified in actual projects. This process was a deep tempering of organizational collaboration, technical understanding, and quality will.
LIGOO: Driving New-Energy Vehicle Safety and Efficiency with Excellent Software Capability
As an enterprise producing battery management systems (BMS)—a core component of new-energy vehicles—LIGOO has always regarded software as the ‘soul’ and core competitiveness of its products.
The company understands that in core control domains concerning vehicle safety and performance, the quality and reliability of software are of paramount importance.
Obtaining the AUTOSQS certification is another solid step by LIGOO—following multiple functional-safety and automotive cyber-security certifications (such as ISO 26262, ISO 21434, etc.)—on the path toward the standardization and internationalization of its automotive electronic software-development system.
Outlook
LIGOO has always regarded technological innovation and quality assurance as the cornerstones of its development.
Passing the AUTOSQS certification and becoming the first certified enterprise in the BMS industry is an important achievement of the company’s practice of its ‘quality-first’ philosophy.
Looking ahead, we will take this as a new starting point, continuously deepen software process improvement, strengthen the quality-management system, and provide solid support for the electrification and intelligent development of the global automotive industry with higher-standard software products and services.
