As the industrial environment is becoming more and more complex, the pressure is on to reduce time-to-market for industrial products and extend the lifecycle of equipment, e.g., industrial PCs, and there is a growing need for certification support in functional safety and security. In larger corporations, it can be viable to create specialized departments to design, engineer, and certify software and hardware for industrial applications in-house. Medium-sized or smaller companies often do not find this practicable – for cost reasons, or due to the wide range of different expertise required to cover all use cases. In these instances, outsourcing engineering projects makes sense to:
- Create customized, reliable, and high-performance embedded solutions for specific industrial use cases
- Overcome the challenges of building robust systems that can operate in real-time and harsh environments
- Balance innovation with legacy system compatibility
- Ensure security and maintainability over the entire lifecycle of industrial systems
TTTECH Industrial provides a wide range of software, hardware, and safety engineering services for its customers. Our development processes comply with ISO 9001:2015 and IEC 62443-4-1 and we also draw on TTTECH’s 25+ years of cross-industry experience in designing, developing, and qualifying electronic systems.
Industrial safety engineering
Industrial safety engineering focuses on the identification, analysis, and mitigation of risks within industrial systems, ensuring the safety, reliability, and compliance of machinery, equipment, and processes. It encompasses the development and application of engineering methods, standards, and best practices to protect people, assets, and the environment from hazards that may arise during the lifecycle of industrial operations.
Our competences
We provide customers with products and solutions that are developed according to the highest standards in safety and security. In addition, we offer consulting services to industrial companies that are looking to comply with their industry standards. We have already achieved certification for ISO 9001, IEC 62443, and Functional Safety Management (FSM) according to IEC 61508 and are currently in the process of certification according to ISO 27001. Therefore, we are familiar with the process and the requirements, and understand the ins and outs of the preparation, procedure, and implementation required.
Our expertise comprises:
- Certified development process for safety-related products (IEC 61508, EN/ISO 13849)
- Certified development process for security-related products (IEC 62443-4-1)
- R&D services for projects requiring functional safety standards according to EN 50647
- Conformity declaration with the specific notified bodies (TÜV)
- We offer the integration of several safe communication channels into your solution such as Time-Triggered Ethernet according to SAE AS6802, FSoE (Functional Safety over EtherCAT - PDF), or PROFIsafe
TTTECH Industrial is the long-term partner for safety control and safe communication of Vestas, one of the largest manufacturers of wind turbines worldwide. We designed a distributed control system (DCS) for them that serves as the “brain” connecting and controlling the electronics in the wind turbine and has been deployed more than 10,000 times.
Our offer
- Competent and comprehensive consulting (e.g. on safety and security concepts)
- Risk and failure analyses (e.g., FMEA – Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, FMEDA – Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis, FTA – Fault Tree Analysis according to IEC 61508) from system to component level
- Calculation of safety indicators such as PFH – Probability of (a dangerous) Failure per Hour, PFD – Probability of Failure on Demand, SFF – Safe Failure Fraction, MTTFd – Mean Time to Dangerous Failure according to IEC 61508)
- Approval and certifications: preparation of documents and representation before the certifying body
Software engineering
Software engineering applies engineering principles to the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software systems. It combines technical expertise with structured methodologies to ensure that software products are reliable, efficient, scalable, and secure.
An aspect of software development that can no longer be ignored is cybersecurity. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an important EU regulation for products with digital elements in this area. It came into effect in 2024 and will be applied from 2027 onwards. The CRA has a wide scope and thus makes it difficult to ensure compliance. A solution certified according to the industrial cybersecurity standards IEC 62443 is seen as the best option, as it provides guidelines for safe and secure development practices and ensuring security across the product lifecycle.
Our competences
TTTECH Industrial has developed Nerve, an IIoT platform for machine builders. It consists of a node software that runs on devices at the edge, as well as a management system that runs in the cloud or on premise. Over the years, we have worked with customers and partners to develop their IIoT applications and services with Nerve as the basis. We understand the industry’s needs and can use our software and application development experience to create the best fit for your application needs.
TTTECH Industrial has undergone this certification and been certified according to IEC 62443-4-1 by TÜV Austria, ensuring secure development processes across all our projects. This minimizes defects detected after the standard operating procedures (SOP) and reduces costs for bug fixing.
Key benefits of the IEC 62443-4-1 certification:
- High quality, secure software by design
- Peer-reviewed, automatically tested and validated, CI/CD pipeline
- Agile development with transparent KPI-based project monitoring
Our offer
We provide integration and security services to customers using our IIoT platform Nerve, as well as tailored development for other applications, such as:
- Full-Stack web applications
- Cloud services
- IoT and edge computing
- Energy management and monitoring
- Networking and communication
- Linux- and open source-based application development
- Hypervisor technology including virtualized real-time systems
- CODESYS runtime integration
- Docker container development
Once software has been developed, it also needs to be tested thoroughly to ensure it meets all security and standard requirements and can perform the desired function reliably. We can arrange different types of tests, depending on your needs:
Complete end-to-end (E2E) testing through both:
- Verification, to ensure that functional and data requirements, as well as specifications have been fulfilled
- Validation, to ensure that the system achieves the intended purpose and meets the customer’s/user’s needs and expectations
- Web application testing
- Real-time testing
- Data pipeline testing
- Regression testing
- Performance testing
- Stress and endurance testing
- Exploratory testing
Hardware engineering
Hardware engineering focuses on designing, developing, and implementing physical computing systems and electronic devices, ensuring reliability, performance, and suitability for a wide range of applications.
TTTECH Industrial designs and develops tailored embedded hardware solutions for demanding industrial environments. Our systems are specifically engineered to operate reliably under harsh conditions while meeting the highest standards for performance and connectivity.
Our competences:
- Our hardware solutions provide a solid foundation for modern automation, control, and data processing tasks in industrial settings – from the shop floor to connected production environments.
- Support for established industrial communication standards such as EtherCAT and PROFINET
- Rugged designs for use in challenging environments
Our offer:
- Design and manufacturing of industrial-grade embedded hardware
- Long-term availability and lifecycle management
- Optional integration into existing automation and IT infrastructures
- Optional combination with our industrial edge platform Nerve
Find out more cross-industry competence and offerings, visit the dedicated electronics development services page.
