National Instruments LabVIEW from Simulation to Implementation
In my organization National Instruments LabVIEW is used to teach about control strategies for industrial equipment and processes to …
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National Instruments headquartered in Austin offers LabVIEW, a systems engineering software platform and toolkit.
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Politécnico Colombiano 'Jaime Isaza Cadavid' (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)
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LabView Base
$407
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3,206
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LabView Professional
5,344
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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In my organization National Instruments LabVIEW is used to teach about control strategies for industrial equipment and processes to students of engineering and technology programs, combined with data acquisition elements, and microcontroller cards. It performs process control and applications for different strategies of classical and modern control, state space controllers, controllers through neural networks. Another application that is given is as a system for displaying variables graphically as HMI and to integrate PLC systems among others.
- real-time data visualization
- implementation of modern control strategies
- integration of languages such as python and c++, for various applications
- data acquisition through microcontroller cards
- improve the management of pc resources to use the minimum amount of resources
- add a utility for zooming in the block diagram window
- Improve management of complementary applications, such as real time module or dsc
February 10, 2022
LabVIEW and automation systems
We are a start-up developing novel water treatment products. To test the performance of the product, we develop in-house lab-scale automated testing systems and also pilot-scale systems to test the products off-site. For our systems, we used LabVIEW to read and write I/O, control the instruments, analyze and log systems' data.
- Automation.
- I/O.
- Data Processing.
- Debug features.
December 13, 2019
Fast Engineering Software Development
We are an engineering services company who uses LabVIEW to write test and automation code for our clients. Sometimes the decision to use LabVIEW is dictated by our clients and other times they do not care what software it used but either way we always use LabVIEW. LabVIEW allows all of our engineers, regardless of background, to ramp up and develop code quickly.
- Debugging tools are fantastic.
- Since it is graphical it is easy to quickly understand what a section of code is doing.
- The integration with hardware, especially NI hardware, is very good.
- UI development is lacking compared to other languages.
- The software requires a bulky run-time engine for EXEs which can be a pain when distributing simple applications.
- Anything to do with websites is a challenge.
March 23, 2019
Well built graphical programming
As a small contract engineering company our organization often finds the need to use LabVIEW to write our own programs to solve problems. The software is used primarily by the software and firmware engineers, but several of the mechanical engineers also utilize it. Our organization saves money by writing some simple programs in house instead of sending them out.
- Being a graphical programming language, it is a little easier for a layperson to understand than text based programming languages.
- The program has very good debugging features.
- Support is good.
- There are a variety of tutorials which make it easier to do something that you aren't sure about.
- Sometimes backwards compatibility issues arise.
- Error messages can be confusing.
- Although it is a graphical programming interface, it has a pretty steep learning curve at first.
March 02, 2019
Good software but needs to become current (with strong SSH / RESTful API capability, iOS support, web-based).
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
All mechanical engineering students learn to use it in their junior year. It allows students to quickly acquire data and analyze it. The rest of the university use it to some degree.
- Data acquisition
- Robotics
- Barrier to entry is large
- Install times are crazy
- Just in time help needs to be more apparent (most students do not know about the examples section)
February 07, 2019
LabView for Engine Test Bench Experiments
I use LabView with our engine test bench's data acquisition system to collect high-speed pressure data and low-speed temperature data. The signal from the sensor needs to be acquired for a certain amount of time and in certain formats that meet our research requirements. I use LabView to make custom interfaces (VIs) that meet these requirements and output the recorded data in the desired form.
- Graphical programming interface makes it easy and intuitive to set up data acquisition VIs.
- Easy to add new sensors.
- Easy to add/modify calibration specifications to get the desired form for output data.
- Easy to package VIs in easy-to-use form that can be used by technicians and operators.
- Sometimes have problems with my VIs when the software version is updated.
- Becomes somewhat slow after updates.
- Real-time plots (in my case pressure-time plots) sometimes get stuck or are laggy. Same is true for RPM gauge.