Design, planning and construction planning of front ends, apparatuses and production plants for the manufacture of body shells, automatic welding and assembly plants, auxiliary devices and handling apparatuses, automatic CNC tube bending machines and apparatuses as well as conveying systems and storage systems; construction planning of electric components, groups of components and component systems; development of programmes (software) for the automatic or automated operation of the aforementioned apparatuses, machines and systems; design, development, installation and maintenance of computer software for the automated operation of machines, in particular of tube processing machines; design, development, installation and maintenance of simulation programmes (software) for the machining and processing of tubes; development, technical planning and construction of automated tube processing machines