Train control systems support the driver with a large number of automatic functions. The system monitors vehicle movements continuously and in accordance with fail-safe signaling principles. In addition, operating information are transmitted.

A prerequisite for technically modern operation management and the efficient use of a marshalling yard is the well-developed engineering of trackside equipment with point machines, signaling systems, sensors, high performance retarders and handling systems as well as radio controlled shunting locomotives and a suitable microcomputer system.
 

A graphical programming environment lets users to create programs by manipulating the components graphically. It allows programming with graphic symbols, connected by arrows, lines or arcs which represent relations, that makes possible for engineers to build up complex automation systems without actual programming knowledge.
 

In the industrial field the HMI is a component of the controlling system that connects the human operator to the whole system. It allows the user to manipulate and monitor an automation system.
Generally, the goal of HMI engineering is to produce a user interface which makes it easy, efficient, enjoyable to operate a machine in the way which produces the desired result. This generally means that the operator needs to provide minimal input to achieve the desired output, and also that the machine minimizes undesired outputs to the human.
 

Managing the complex tasks of machine control, production line monitoring, and production area coordination is impossible without industrial communication. It allows engineers to implement powerful, integrated data networks from simple sensor connecting to plantwide data acquisition and transmission, integrating of all company areas into one coherent system.
 

Mobile application development is the process by which applications are developed for hand held devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. These applications are either pre-installed on phones during manufacture, or downloaded by customers from app stores and other mobile software distribution platforms. Like desktop software they range from games to business applications covering a wide variety of categories.
 

CRM (customer relationship management) is an information industry term for methodologies, software, and usually Internet capabilities that help an enterprise manage customer relationships in an organized way. For example, an enterprise might build a database about its customers that described relationships in sufficient detail so that management, salespeople, people providing service, and perhaps the customer directly could access information, match customer needs with product plans and offerings, remind customers of service requirements, know what other products a customer had purchased, and so forth.