Jama Software

A significant portion of automotive engineering time gets absorbed by work that is manual and repetitive: scanning standards, tracing requirements, moving content between tools.
That's the problem Matt Mickle at Jama Software tackles in his latest blog.
The solution pairs purpose-built AI agent toolkits, trained on standards like ISO 26262, ISO 21434, ASPICE, and SOTIF (ISO 21448), with Jama Connect MCP™. Together, they take AI-generated content from standards analysis all the way to auditable, traceable artifacts in your live Jama Connect project, without a manual data entry step in between.
The engineer stays in control throughout. The toolkit handles standards analysis, formatting, and first-draft generation. The subject matter expert applies judgment, domain expertise, and the accountability that safety-critical development requires.
What once took hours or days can be compressed into minutes, with engineering effort focused where it matters most.
Matt walks through a full HARA workflow example in the blog. Worth a read if your team is navigating functional safety compliance > https://ow.ly/vhbN50ZkUXu 

AI isn't here to replace engineering managers. It's here to help them spend less time chasing information and more time making decisions.

For teams building complex, regulated products, AI can help surface risks, summarize changes, and connect information across requirements and engineering data. The key is knowing where it adds value—and where human judgment still matters.

This article looks at practical ways engineering managers can start using AI without overcomplicating their workflows: https://ow.ly/jKoP50ZhMN5