Strengthening Software Quality and Safety: Welcoming Qt Group’s Axivion Tool to the R&M Safety Partner Ecosystem

As software becomes the backbone of modern robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring software quality is no longer just a development objective; it is a safety imperative.

That is why we are excited to welcome Qt Group to the R&M Safety Partner Ecosystem .

The R&M Safety Partner Ecosystem was created to bring together organizations that help bridge the gap between innovation and safe deployment. By combining expertise across safety engineering, compliance, verification, and enabling technologies, the ecosystem helps clients reduce risk, accelerate development, and build solutions that are ready for real-world deployment.

Why Axivion?
One of the most common challenges we encounter on safety-critical projects is managing growing software complexity. As systems scale, maintaining architecture integrity, enforcing coding guidelines, and identifying defects early becomes increasingly difficult.

Qt Group’s Axivion tool addresses these challenges through automated static code analysis and software architecture verification solutions that strengthen software quality from the beginning of the development lifecycle. These capabilities are especially valuable for deterministic software, where predictable execution, architectural consistency, and code-level correctness form the foundation of safety and compliance.

At Reynolds & Moore , we focus on a complementary challenge: the safety assurance of non-deterministic and AI-enabled behavior. As autonomy increases across systems, organizations must now reason about uncertainty, probabilistic outputs, learning-based components, and emergent system behavior. This requires a different safety mindset, focused on modelling, risk reasoning, and safety case development for AI-driven functionality.

Together, Qt Group and Reynolds & Moore address both sides of the modern safety challenge: deterministic software assurance and non-deterministic system behavior.

“Safety-critical systems are increasingly hybrid in nature, combining deterministic software foundations with AI-driven, non-deterministic behavior. Qt Group’s Axivion tool helps ensure the deterministic layer is robust and well-structured, while Reynolds & Moore  focuses on the safety challenges introduced by AI and autonomy. Together, we enable a more complete safety approach for next-generation systems.”
— Nicole Sophie Christiansen , Head of Strategy, Reynolds & Moore

Better Together
The partnership creates opportunities for both organizations to support clients throughout the product lifecycle.

Axivion brings strong capabilities in software quality, novel architecture verification, and static analysis for deterministic systems. This helps ensure that the foundational software layers of safety-critical systems are robust, maintainable, and compliant with established engineering practices.

Reynolds & Moore complements this with expertise in functional safety engineering, AI safety, and regulatory compliance for systems that include non-deterministic or learning-based components. This is increasingly important as robotics, automotive, and industrial systems integrate AI into decision-making and control loops.

Together, we can help organisations:

• Improve software quality and maintainability.
• Detect architectural issues before they become costly redesign efforts.
• Strengthen compliance with standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO 10218, ISO 13849 and NVIDIA CUDA C++ coding guidelines for safe and robust programming.
• Reduce development and certification risk.
• Accelerate the path from innovation to deployment.

“As systems grow in complexity, ensuring both software quality as well as architectural integrity becomes even more critical. By joining the R&M Safety Partner Ecosystem , we are excited to collaborate with organizations that share our commitment to engineering excellence and safety, helping customers build strong and reliable deterministic software foundations.”
— Jan Aarsaether , Senior Business Development Lead, Qt Group 

Most importantly, the partnership supports a shared belief that safety should be considered early, continuously, and not be treated as an afterthought. By bringing software quality and functional safety engineering together, organizations can build more reliable products while reducing time-to-market and compliance challenges.