In the rapidly evolving automotive landscape, one fact is undeniable: software now drives value. By 2030, it’s projected that up to 40% of a vehicle’s value will come from software. The rise of the Software-Defined Vehicle transforms cars from static machines into dynamic, intelligent platforms, driven by embedded intelligence, continuous updates, and digital services. But with this revolution comes an imperative: safety must evolve at the same pace as innovation.
Dassault Systèmes and CATIA proudly announce a major milestone in ISO 26262 certification.
CATIA Magic and No Magic are now certified under ISO 26262-8:2018 Clause 11 at Tool Confidence Level 2 (TCL2), officially certified by Bureau Veritas.
After years of ensuring compliance, this certification marks a significant evolution from being compliant to being formally certified. This achievement delivers immediate value to OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and safety-focused engineering organizations worldwide. It represents a key step forward in Dassault Systèmes’ commitment to safety and quality.
What the Certification Means
ISO 26262 certification introduces a framework to assess how much trust must be placed in a tool when it contributes to safety-relevant outputs. This is where the concept of Tool Confidence Level (TCL) comes into play. Based on a tool’s potential to introduce errors (Tool Impact) and the likelihood that such errors will be detected (Tool Detection), the standard defines three levels.
As independent assessor, Bureau Veritas has now certified CATIA Magic and No Magic at TCL2, recognizing their trustworthiness in supporting safety-critical engineering processes, such as:
- Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
- ASIL decomposition
- Safety requirements elicitation
with a consistent traceability to the system model, which represents a significant operational gain. With this certification, organizations can adopt our MBSE solutions with greater confidence, automation, and reduced compliance overhead. It applies to R2024x Refresh 2 versions of CATIA Magic (Cyber Systems Engineer, Systems of Systems Architect) and No Magic (Cameo Systems Modeler, Cameo Enterprise Architecture), covering the functional safety plugin and key modeling functions for ISO 26262 workflows, sufficient for most functional safety use cases.
From Qualification Burden to Strategic Acceleration
Engineering teams must perform extensive qualification when tools aren’t pre-certified for safety-critical contexts. This process can take hundreds of hours, involving assessments, documentation reviews, and validations. For large programs, this burden quickly scales across tools and teams.
With TCL2 certification, Dassault Systèmes eliminates this effort. Customers can now rely on our certification to validate tool outputs, freeing engineers to focus on higher-value activities like hazard analysis and system validation.
The benefits ripple across the supply chain: OEMs gain confidence in supplier solutions, Tier 1 and 2 suppliers face fewer compliance hurdles, and tool outputs integrate directly into workflows, reducing redundant verification, speeding up iterations, and accelerating time to compliance.
MBSE Built for Safety and Scale
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is essential for developing complex, software-defined systems in vehicles, aircraft, defense, and industry. With ISO 26262 TCL2 certification, CATIA Magic and No Magic are validated for safety-critical development, enabling teams to automate tasks like architecture modeling in relation to functional safety concept, reducing manual review, minimizing rework, and allowing engineers to focus on designing better systems.
Certified tooling also transforms digital engineering strategies:
- Consistent ASIL allocation and hazard tracing
- Automated, traceable requirement derivation
- Reusable safety-compliant models across programs and platforms
- Simplified lifecycle tailoring and justification
By embedding certified MBSE solutions into core workflows, organizations gain speed, scalability, and safety, without compromise.
Strategic Market and Ecosystem Impact
The ISO 26262 TCL2 certification reinforces Dassault Systèmes’ strategic role in the safety-critical engineering ecosystem. OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers increasingly seek pre-certified tools for large-scale programs, and the ability to show compliance from day one can shape procurement decisions, reduce validation overhead, and build trust with regulatory bodies.
More than a software provider, Dassault Systèmes is now a systems partner. Our MBSE suite sits at the crossroads of functional safety, digital twin engineering, and system-of-systems modeling. Seamless integration with AUTOSAR, PLM/ALM, and test automation ecosystems ensures a traceable and automated development flow.
Key strategic advantages include:
- Faster bid enablement and smoother validation in safety-critical tenders
- Improved alignment with emerging cybersecurity and AI safety frameworks
- Stronger foundation for secure-by-design development, even though cybersecurity plugins remain outside the current certification scope
This certification not only validates our solutions, it elevates them as trusted platforms for building the next generation of safe, intelligent systems.
Unlocking Innovation, Empowering Safety
In today’s fast-paced world, innovation must go hand in hand with safety. Organizations need to move quickly without losing rigor. The ISO 26262-8 Clause 11 certification of CATIA Magic and No Magic meets this challenge. It helps ensure safety while supporting fast progress.
It empowers validation teams to accelerate development with confidence, blending seamless automation with uncompromising oversight. This certification isn’t just a badge of compliance, it’s the key to unlocking a bold new chapter of model-driven, safety-first innovation.
To fully harness this power, customers need to align their local configurations with the certified scope, including tool versions, activated modules, runtime environments, and plugins. Dassault Systèmes supports this process at every step. They provide a comprehensive usage guide to help customers maintain alignment. This ensures the integrity and trustworthiness of the safety chain.
Building a Safe Future With The ISO 26262 Certification
Functional safety is no longer a checkbox, it’s the foundation of every breakthrough in technology. With TCL2 certification, CATIA Magic and No Magic evolve beyond powerful MBSE solutions into certified champions of safety-critical development. This achievement elevates our solutions from compliant to officially certified, unlocking unprecedented value for industries where safety and complexity intersect, whether automotive, aerospace, defense, or beyond.
By choosing these certified MBSE tools, you’re not just mitigating risk, you’re accelerating innovation. You’re paving the way for smarter systems, faster compliance, and safer outcomes. And you’re doing it alongside a partner dedicated to guiding you confidently through complexity with efficiency and trust.
Step into the future of innovation, where certification fuels your boldest ideas with trusted safety. Start building smarter, safer systems today..
FAQ
What are ISO standards for automotive?
ISO standards for automotive, such as ISO 26262, define guidelines to ensure the safety, quality, and reliability of vehicles and their components, especially as they become more software-driven.
What are the concepts of ISO 26262?
ISO 26262 introduces the concept of functional safety in automotive systems. It includes risk assessment, ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level), and Tool Confidence Level (TCL) to measure the trust in development tools that contribute to safety-relevant outputs.
What is the ISO functional safety standard?
ISO 26262 is the functional safety standard for automotive systems. It ensures that electrical and electronic systems in vehicles operate safely under all conditions, minimizing the risk of failure due to system faults.