Smart engineering for railway technology: Digitalized. Model-based. Certified.

Our distinctive methodological expertise enables us to deliver state-of-the-art, standards-compliant solutions for safety-critical railway software and systems engineering. Our comprehensive portfolio of services extends from consulting to training, and from individual software products through to system solutions. Our approach to safety-critical applications is underpinned by expert knowledge and cross-sector synergies. Everything you need in the way of risk management, traceability, and documentation comes from a single source.  

What we do at a glance:

• Modular software platforms/ architecture
• System design/ analysis
• Safety management
• Standards-compliant software development
• Testing strategies
• Cyber security: Analysis, concepts, consulting, and implementation

With a firm grasp of methods and tools, we provide holistic solutions to support you throughout the development process. We use model-based software development to make complex systems manageable. Quality assurance is a top priority. Our focus is on maintainability and sustainability of the development. Security functions and long lifecycles ensure processes remain reliable.  Our in-depth experience in this area also comes from the fields of aerospace and automation technology.

What we do at a glance:

• Integrated development pipeline (CI/CD)
• Model-based development
• State-of-the-art requirements engineering
• Tool-assisted development
• Formal methods, e.g. formal verification
• Hierarchical testing methods and test automation
• Agile development
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Big data and data mining with cloud solutions

Our CENELEC reference workflow ensures the maintainability and expandability of our solutions: process-oriented and standard-compliant development of modular, scalable and testable architectures and software. It supports the entire life cycle from the creation of requirements to the assessment and additionally offers a high degree of automation as well as an immediate start of the project without high process planning effort.

ITK CENELEC reference workflow as per EN 50128/50657 or rather 50716 to SIL 4:

• Assessment with declaration of conformity by EBA evaluator
• Use of cross-industry experiences
• Predefined development process
• High consistency through tool-based process implementation

As your development partner, we work with you to put innovative, holistic railway solutions into practice. Anything goes, from TCMS and smart maintenance to electronic interlockings and passenger information systems. Compliance with standards, functional safety, and cyber security are always top priorities.

What we do at a glance:

• TCMS to comfort-and-convenience functions
• Embedded systems to smart maintenance
• Electronic interlockings to passenger information systems
• ETCS to ATO
• Safety to cyber security