UL 4600: UL-4600 Part 13 – Tool Qualification, COTS, Legacy Components
- Date
- 2026-10-22
- Location
- Online
- Host
- UL 4600 (Functional Safety)
About this event
If you work with autonomous or safety-critical systems, you already know that some of the hardest assurance questions show up at the edges: the tools you rely on, the commercial components you did not build, and the legacy elements you cannot simply replace. This session focuses directly on those real-world challenges through the lens of UL 4600 Part 13: Tool Qualification, COTS, Legacy Components, giving you a practical way to think about what credible evidence and sound engineering judgment look like in these areas. This is a focused virtual gathering for people who want more than a surface-level summary. Expect a discussion grounded in the standard’s intent, the engineering tradeoffs behind it, and the kinds of questions teams actually face when they need to justify trust in development
Who should attend
This will be especially useful if you want a clearer, more defensible way to think about tools, third-party components, and inherited system elements in a safety-relevant context. - You work on **autonomous, safety-critical, or assurance-heavy systems** and need to understand how UL 4600 applies beyond high-level principles. - You are an **engineer, architect, or technical lead** dealing with development tools, integration decisions, verification workflows, or component selection. - You are responsible for **safety, quality, compliance, or assurance activities** and need stronger ways to evaluate evidence around COTS or legacy elements. - You are part of a team that relies on **commercial off-the-shelf components** and wants better questions, assumptions, and justification strategies. - You are working with **legacy platforms or inherited subsystems** and need to assess whether existing artifacts, documentation, and behavior are adequate for current assurance needs. - You value **peer discussion in a virtual community setting** and want to compare how other practitioners approach these difficult edge cases. If you have ever looked at a toolchain, a supplier component, or an older subsystem and thought, "How do we justify this with confidence?" this event is for you.