Empower Engineers and Scientists
It is up to engineers and scientists to meet the grand challenges that impact quality of life and the future of the planet. National Instruments equips engineers around the world with the tools that accelerate the development of these solutions. By using the NI graphical system design platform that greatly simplifies development and increases efficiency, engineers can design, prototype, and test smarter, more advanced products and technologies. These technologies will be used to address the world’s most pressing challenges, including building and maintaining urban infrastructure, producing renewable energy, and developing medical devices. NI empowers its customers with a better approach to engineering and ensures that engineers in developing countries who face extraordinary barriers to adoption also have access to this technology.
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To ensure the success of its customers, NI invests in technologies that can be used for medical device development, structural health monitoring, and renewable energy.
NI nurtures local innovation and entrepreneurship and, through Planet NI, the company is making engineering tools affordable, accessible, and relevant to groups focused on improving the socioeconomic development of their communities.
BY THE NUMBERS
35,000+
companies used NI tools to accelerate innovation and discovery in 2011
>16%
of total revenue was reinvested in R&D to further empower engineers and scientists to develop world-improving technologies
34
developing countries' engineers now have access to NI technology through the Planet NI program, up from 20 in 2010
Dr. Mike Rendall
Diverse Energy Ltd
"The LabVIEW graphical programming environment helps with rapid development and deployment. If we had tried to build our PowerCube energy system using a text-based language, we wouldn’t be anywhere near where we are now in the development cycle, and as a result, several regions in Africa would still rely on expensive, nonrenewable sources of energy for mobile phone coverage".