Collaboration TÜV Nord & MST Groep
Imagine you’re a startup or a systems integrator and you have a smart solution for safer and more efficient transport, either on public road or in confined areas with mixed traffic. At some point you have to prove that your solution is safe and conform the applicable regulations.
But you don’t know where to start, what the most efficient route to approval is, and whom to ask those questions.
Technical services and type approval authorities must stay independent, and hence cannot support you with that.
Therefore MST Groep and TÜV Nord started a collaboration.
MST Groep provides advisory and executional support before and during the phases of assessment to applicants, while TÜV Nord independently conducts assessments as designated Technical Service.
Strategic Guidance for Vehicle Safety Approvals
This collaboration ensures applicants receive proactive guidance throughout the approval process by strategically aligning advisory, executional, and formal assessment tasks. The approach is tailored to the
maturity of the product, process, and corporate structure, recognizing their impact on essential
vehicle safety.
Bridging Innovation and Compliance in Vehicle Safety
With specialists who have extensive experience in developing, testing and building safety cases for ADAS/ADS and mobile machines MST Groep is able to understand the language of both OEMs and suppliers on one hand, and Technical Services and Type Approval Authorities on the other hand. We form a linking pin between them, identify the needs of both parties, and (support to) deliver solutions that fulfil all identified needs. This way we accelerate innovation and its deployment.
Bridging Innovation and Compliance in Vehicle Safety
Together with our partner TÜV NORD, we support you with:
Regulatory Identification
- Determining applicable (inter)national regulations and standards.
- When no clear regulation exists yet, identifying relevant frameworks to build a solid safety case.
Strategic Advisory
- Guidance on application options and approval routes.
- Evaluation of your product and its designed Operational Design Domain (ODD).
Safety & Management Systems
- Implementation or evaluation of a safety management system.
- Deployment of safety standards such as:
- ISO 26262 (Functional Safety)
- ISO 21448 (SOTIF – Safety of the Intended Functionality)
- ISO 21434 (Cybersecurity).
Validation & Safety Case Support
- Product validation and documentation review.
- Building or checking safety cases, ensuring completeness, timing, and quality.
- Change management and competence checks for confirmation measures (verification & validation).
- Tailored improvement suggestions and follow-up support.
Assessment & Approvals
- Safety and cybersecurity assessments for:
- Public road testing approvals.
- Type approvals under: §21 StVZO, AFGBV §16, EU 2018/858, EU 2022/1426, UNECE R157, UNECE R171, and related acts adopted in Germany and the Netherlands.
- Full support with application processes and preparation of approval documentation.
