VisualProVisualPro — Deciding the Survival of Korea's Auto-Parts Industry Amid China's Autonomous-Driving Upheaval
Integrated Digital Safety Platform for GB 44721 · China L2/L3 Mandatory Compliance (STPA · FTA · FMEA)
Product: VisualPro | For: OEMs & Tier-1 E/E Suppliers | Date: 2026-07-10
GB 44721China L2/L3ISO 26262SOTIF (ISO 21448)Digital Thread
01Why Act Now on China's Autonomous-Driving Regulations? (TL;DR)
China is evolving into the world's largest smart-EV and autonomous-driving market while simultaneously enforcing its own mandatory national standards (GB): the L2 (Annex C.2.7.2) and L3 (GB 44721, Chapter 6) safety regulations. Korean Tier-1 suppliers that export finished vehicles to China or supply electrical/electronic components to global OEM platforms can survive only by clearing this stringent regulatory barrier.
VisualPro is the industry's only integrated digital safety platform. It eliminates fragmented point tools and unifies STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree Analysis), and FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) into a single database (Digital Thread), achieving 100% real-time linkage of safety-analysis metrics whenever a design changes.
VisualPro integrated automotive safety dashboard — STPA · FTA · FMEA · PMHF on a single digital thread
At least 10x STPA analysis productivity and zero AI hallucinations — dramatically shortening the safety-analysis and documentation time required for China's mandatory certification.
02What Do China's Market Trends Mean for Korean OEMs and Suppliers?
With MIIT's approval of L3 commercialization, regulatory readiness is no longer 'paperwork' — it IS your access pass to the Chinese market. Four shifts now confront Korean suppliers.
1) China's L3 Commercialization and Mandatory Safety Enforcement Begin in EarnestGB 44721
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has, for the first time, approved on-road testing and commercial service of L3 conditional automated driving for a consortium of nine major municipalities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Korean E/E and control-component suppliers must immediately integrate proof of compliance with China's safety-design standard (GB 44721) into their development process.
2) Mandatory Integration of Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and SOTIF (ISO 21448)FuSa + SOTIF
China's L2 regulation Article C.2.7.2(c) and L3 Article 6.1.6 explicitly require addressing not only hardware failures but also SOTIF risks arising from sensor-perception limits (e.g., backlight, heavy rain) and blocking reasonably foreseeable driver misuse (e.g., bypassing the DMS camera). A systematic safety-analysis (STPA) report proving this has become the first hurdle for exporting to China.
3) Duplicate-Engineering and Data-Inconsistency RiskData Consistency
Managing Europe/North-America safety-analysis data and China GB-compliance documents separately in Excel or in disconnected tools causes a severe defect: the metrics fall out of sync every time the design changes. This is grounds for immediate rejection during a test-house certification audit.
4) The Cost of Non-Compliance — Regulatory Readiness IS Your 'Access Pass'Market Access
Failing GB 44721 compliance is not a mere paperwork gap — it means losing eligibility to supply Chinese OEM platforms. A single rejection for safety-analysis inconsistency can take months to re-review, delaying the entire mass-production schedule and order, with that volume handed to a competing supplier. Conversely, proactively prepared suppliers position themselves as preferred suppliers to Chinese and global OEMs.
03How Do VisualPro's Three Core Solutions Satisfy China's Regulatory Articles?
VisualPro's three analysis modules — FMEA, FTA, and STPA — are mapped 1:1 to the required articles of China's GB L2/L3 regulations, so completing the analysis simultaneously completes your regulatory evidence base.
| Solution | Role | China Regulation Mapping |
|---|
(a) FMEA
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis | Completes a top-down analysis of how component-level potential failure modes affect vehicle and system behavior. | L2 C.2.7.4
System-level failure modes and safety-mechanism description |
(b) FTA
Fault Tree Analysis | Based on top-down logic-gate analysis, quantifies the combinations of causes that lead to system failure and automatically computes, in real time, the cut-off probabilities (FIT and PMHF values) required to meet ASIL. | L3 6.1.6.4 · L2 C.2.8.3
FIT/PMHF metric-setting process · quantitative safety-goal verification |
(c) STPA
System-Theoretic Process Analysis | Through control-loop analysis, fully detects hazardous scenarios (SOTIF) that arise from perception-performance limits or logic errors even in the absence of any failure. | L2 C.2.7.2(c) · L3 6.1.6.2
Hazard analysis for perception gaps/misuse · SOTIF technique application |
04What Unique Engineering Synergy Does VisualPro Deliver?
Single-Source Modeling Based on a Digital ThreadSingle Source
STPA's Unsafe Control Actions (UCAs) are linked 1:1 with FMEA's potential failure modes and FTA's leaf nodes, so when the design changes, the entire set of analysis cards synchronizes automatically and with complete integrity.
Automated Generation of Standard Reports for Chinese RegulationCATARC-Ready
With a single click, output integrated Korean/English FMEA, FTA, and STPA safety-analysis reports that are 100% compatible with the submission formats of Chinese type-approval test houses (e.g., CATARC), dramatically reducing manual paperwork (at least 10x productivity improvement based on the actual case).
Pioneering Quantification of Simulation ConfidenceL3 6.2.1
Provides a statistics viewer that centrally manages the simulation-model error quantification and the vehicle-to-analysis correlation statistics required by China L3 Article 6.2.1.
Shorter Analysis Time and Gap Prevention via AI Integration (AI-Assisted Safety Analysis)AI-Assisted
Real-time integration with the latest AI (LLM) models lets the AI proactively predict and recommend — based on design data and historical failure cases — the environmental threats (SOTIF) and component-defect causes an engineer might otherwise overlook, completely filling the safety-analysis gaps that arise from human error or lack of experience.
05What Are the Verified Customer Results (Proof Point)?
VisualPro's AI-integrated STPA analysis capability has been verified at a professional safety-analysis organization. CF Cyber Services (Chris Few, Director), a UK specialist in cyber-physical-systems safety analysis, applied VisualPro to its proprietary ARMMACCS methodology — which combines STPA with cyber-attack path analysis — and completed a national-power-grid-scale STPA analysis with a single expert.
| Metric | Result |
|---|
| Loss scenarios auto-generated | 483 |
| Unsafe Control Actions (UCAs) identified | 122 |
| Prioritized mitigations | 11 |
| Analyst productivity | ≥ 10x improvement |
| AI hallucinations (errors) | 0 |
Why it matters Notably, 'zero AI hallucinations' is decisive for regulatory-audit readiness, because it proves that the speed of automation was achieved without sacrificing analytical reliability.
Source: VWAY Customer Success Story — 'VisualPro's integrated AI accelerates precise STPA analysis by at least 10x' (www.vwaycorp.com news, idx=172118380)
06Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q1As a Korean supplier, do we need to prepare separately for China's local regulations?
Yes. China follows the global standards ISO 26262/21448, but its type-approval documentation format and review process are highly distinctive. VisualPro pre-maps this China GB L2/L3 regulatory checklist onto your design architecture, saving duplicate engineering resources.
Q2What is the decisive difference between existing FMEA/FTA tools and VisualPro?
Existing tools are fragmented and cannot link data, whereas VisualPro connects STPA-FTA-FMEA into a single digital thread, so safety-analysis consistency is always maintained at 100% in real time even when the design changes.
07Get Started Now (Next Step)
The later you address China GB L2/L3 compliance, the greater the re-review risk and opportunity cost. Secure your safety-analysis framework now with VisualPro.
Turn regulatory risk into a controllable competitive advantage from the earliest design stage — get ahead of China GB L2/L3 with VisualPro.
VisualPro Adoption · China Compliance Assessment
China is evolving into the world's largest smart-EV and autonomous-driving market while simultaneously enforcing its own mandatory national standards (GB): the L2 (Annex C.2.7.2) and L3 (GB 44721, Chapter 6) safety regulations. Korean Tier-1 suppliers that export finished vehicles to China or supply electrical/electronic components to global OEM platforms can survive only by clearing this stringent regulatory barrier.
VisualPro is the industry's only integrated digital safety platform. It eliminates fragmented point tools and unifies STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree Analysis), and FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) into a single database (Digital Thread), achieving 100% real-time linkage of safety-analysis metrics whenever a design changes.
With MIIT's approval of L3 commercialization, regulatory readiness is no longer 'paperwork' — it IS your access pass to the Chinese market. Four shifts now confront Korean suppliers.
VisualPro's three analysis modules — FMEA, FTA, and STPA — are mapped 1:1 to the required articles of China's GB L2/L3 regulations, so completing the analysis simultaneously completes your regulatory evidence base.
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
System-level failure modes and safety-mechanism description
Fault Tree Analysis
FIT/PMHF metric-setting process · quantitative safety-goal verification
System-Theoretic Process Analysis
Hazard analysis for perception gaps/misuse · SOTIF technique application
VisualPro's AI-integrated STPA analysis capability has been verified at a professional safety-analysis organization. CF Cyber Services (Chris Few, Director), a UK specialist in cyber-physical-systems safety analysis, applied VisualPro to its proprietary ARMMACCS methodology — which combines STPA with cyber-attack path analysis — and completed a national-power-grid-scale STPA analysis with a single expert.
The later you address China GB L2/L3 compliance, the greater the re-review risk and opportunity cost. Secure your safety-analysis framework now with VisualPro.