Machine Condition Monitoring: a three-part Webcast Series (01/02/2012)

Reducing operating and maintenance costs is becoming increasingly important. You can use condition monitoring to monitor plant assets and schedule maintenance, helping to reduce unneeded repairs, or worse, unexpected machine failures. National...

Automating dynamometer testing – a winning solution (04/01/2012)

Mark McDonnell describes how his company sought to automate the testing and characterisation of an integrated motor and inverter destined for an in-wheel electric vehicle drive system. The award-winning test rig, based on NI LabVIEW software and NI...

NIDays 2011: see what you missed at the Graphical System Design Conference (01/12/2011)

More than 600 engineers, scientists and educators attended NIDays 2011, experiencing more than 60 in-depth technical presentations and hands-on sessions covering the latest measurement and automation technologies for test, control and design...

Machine conditioning monitoring - a new NI webcast series (16/11/2011)

National Instruments (NI) UK & Ireland has announced a series of webcasts to provide tips and techniques specifically for engineers and scientists involved in condition monitoring and predictive maintenance systems. The three-part series of...

NI introduces new levels of productivity with LabVIEW 2011 (08/11/2011)

National Instruments (NI) has released NI LabVIEW 2011, the 25th-anniversary version of its award-winning system design software. LabVIEW 2011 can dramatically increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific libraries and its...

New vision and motion hardware with NI RIO technology (21/10/2011)

National Instruments (NI) has augmented its reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology offering with a reconfigurable Camera Link frame grabber for demanding embedded vision applications and a motion module for the NI CompactRIO platform. The NI PCIe-1473R...

National instruments introduces new levels of productivity with LabVIEW 2011 (13/10/2011)

National Instruments has unveiled NI LabVIEW 2011, the 25th-anniversary version of its award-winning system design software. LabVIEW 2011 can dramatically increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific libraries and its ability to...

NIDays 2011 | Keynote: Engineering the Olympics | 9th November, London (13/10/2011)

NIDays is the annual professional development conference for engineers, scientists and educators in measurement, automation and embedded design, held this year at The QEII Conference Centre in Westminster. This FREE multi-track conference and...

COTS system slashes MEMS test costs (04/10/2011)

Using COTS equipment for its MEMS testing platform has enabled Analog Devices to achieve an eleven-fold reduction in capital equipment costs, not to mention a 16-fold reduction in power consumption, compared with that of a full-blown bespoke...

A novel clinical application for haptics (12/09/2011)

A group of postgraduate students from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds has developed a system to measure and simulate the forces perceived by a surgeon during palpation (examination through touch) in robot-assisted...

NI adds single-slot chassis to NI CompactDAQ platform (05/08/2011)

National Instruments has introduced a single-slot NI CompactDAQ chassis that support wireless, USB and Ethernet buses, giving engineers and scientists the portability of a data logger with the performance and flexibility of modular measurements. The...

NI DIAdem 2011 expedites analysis and reporting of engineering measurement data (18/07/2011)

National Instruments (NI) has announced NI DIAdem 2011, the latest version of the software tool specifically designed to make engineers and scientists more efficient when locating, inspecting, analysing and reporting on measurement data. DIAdem 2011...

Summer of LabVIEW 12-part webcast series: register now! (18/07/2011)

NI LabVIEW graphical programming has revolutionised the development of measurement, automation and embedded applications. Now, engineers and scientists can learn how to interface with measurement and control hardware, analyse data, share results and...

Severe-Storms Researcher Tim Samaras to Deliver NIWeek 2011 Keynote (28/06/2011)

National Instruments has announced that Tim Samaras, severe-storms researcher and star of the Discovery Channel show “Storm Chasers,” will deliver the closing keynote address at NIWeek 2011, the world’s largest graphical system design conference and...

Explore the NI UK Webcast Library, watch content on-demand (07/06/2011)

Experience National Instruments technologies for measurement and control without leaving your desk by viewing the NI UK library of webcasts on-demand. Recent topics, delivered by local experts, include Test, Prototyping, Robotics, Green Engineering...

NI Aerospace & Defence Forum 2011 (20/05/2011)

Learn about the latest developments in automated test, measurement & control technologies and RF & wireless communications specifically for the military & aerospace industries. Hear from NI and industry engineers at this FREE one-day conference, see...

Seven ways to boost your measurement performance (21/04/2011)

As industrial systems increase in complexity, optimising your system with advanced measurements and control is critical. The open NI LabVIEW graphical development environment and NI CompactRIO hardware can help you reduce costs with precision...

Test webcast series: learn how to optimise your automated test system (09/03/2011)

A six-part webcast series from National Instruments provides tips for developing automated test systems and highlights the key enabling technologies that make this possible. You will be able to interact with the presenter and other colleagues in...

NI extends its wireless sensor network platform with two new products (09/03/2011)

National Instruments has extended the communication and measurement capabilities of its wireless sensor network (WSN) platform. The new NI 9792 is a programmable WSN gateway that can communicate with NI WSN measurement nodes and other hardware...

NI introduces industrial touch panel computers based on Intel Atom processor (22/02/2011)

National Instruments has introduced a line of touch panel computers with an extended operating temperature range based on the 1.33 GHz Intel Atom processor. With Intel Atom processors, engineers can build high-performance human machine interfaces...