innotec and useblocks Announce Strategic Partnership
innotec is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with useblocks, a company specialized in software engineering, traceability management, and documentation solutions around Sphinx and Sphinx-Needs open-source tools.
With this partnership, innotec will support Sphinx-Needs, and the related x-as-code tool ecosystem developed by useblocks, into safety-related projects.
In this partnership, innotec’s safety know-how and useblocks’ x-as-code enterprise tool suite come together to support safety-critical projects.
Sphinx-Needs and the useblocks tool suite enables structured and traceable documentation of requirements, safety cases, and development artifacts, supporting compliance with functional safety and cybersecurity standards.
By combining innotec Safety’s 20+ years of expertise in certification processes with useblocks’ innovative solutions, we strengthen our ability to guide customers through the entire safety lifecycle.
Together, we aim to provide engineers and organizations with more efficient, transparent, and reliable processes for achieving certification and ensuring product safety.
The potential of Sphinx-Needs in safety related project is huge, and through the collaboration of innotec with useblocks, we continue to enable small and medium enterprises to access state-of-the-art open source solutions in the field of safety development.
“At innotec, our mission is to support customers on their journey through functional safety. By partnering with useblocks and integrating Sphinx-Needs, we bring additional value and efficiency to safety-critical projects, without the need of investing in expensive closed toolchain solutions” says Christopher Zimmer, Senior Functional Safety Expert at innotec GmbH.
“Sphinx-Needs was built to make engineering processes more transparent and reliable. Working together with innotec allows us to apply these principles directly in safety projects and create tangible impact for the industry,” states Max Pabinger, CRO of useblocks.
We look forward to a successful collaboration with useblocks in driving excellence in safety and cybersecurity.
Filderstadt, 2025-11-10
Are you interested in the results of such a collaboration? Take a look at https://safety.useblocks.com
