LabVIEW and the Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) Module enable engineers to be more productive in a variety of applications. Learn more about the main components of the LabVIEW DSC Module.
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Distributed Monitoring and Control
Distributed monitoring and control systems enable engineers to take advantage of the processing power of all available resources in order to more efficiently use their entire system. National Instruments LabVIEW with the DSC and Real-Time Modules gives engineers the tools needed to succeed when designing, building, and integrating distributed systems. In addition, engineers can use the LabVIEW DSC Module to quickly connect to Compact FieldPoint or to third-party devices via the NI Industrial Automation OPC Servers CD.
White Paper: Learn more about using LabVIEW for your distributed monitoring and control system.
Data Logging
Every data logger has a handful of core requirements:
- Acquire and log data to a storage location
- View data both during and after the acquisition
- Record alarms or events triggered by data
- Network devices simply and transparently
- Implement security for applications easily
To help with these requirements, the LabVIEW software platform with the DSC Module provides specific tools for quickly and easily architecting data logging applications.
White Paper: Learn more about using LabVIEW and the DSC Module as your data logger.
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
In the past, most data gathering was done by hand, and the FDA required that these documents contain the written signature of the person that generated it. Now, almost all data is recorded on computers. The 21 CFR Part 11 regulations delineate how data should be stored electronically and how electronic signatures should be applied to this data. LabVIEW and the DSC Module enable scientists to take advantage of the easy-to-use graphical development environment while meeting these regulations.
Tutorial: Learn more about using the LabVIEW DSC Module to develop FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliant applications.
Machine Condition Monitoring
National Instruments customers have taken advantage of open architecture technologies to create a wide range of vibration monitoring systems. For example, systems measure machine signatures from turbines, generators, pumps, rolling mills, and other industrial machinery. Sensors used include accelerometers, velocimeters, proximity probes, current probes, voltage probes, and any required process variables. Learn more about how to analyze vibration, electrical, and process signatures.
Webcast Video: Discover the advantages of computer-based machine condition monitoring.
Manufacturing
Creating customized process control and quality data interface systems to network stand-alone pieces of manufacturing equipment, such as PLCs, robots, process machinery, and test stations, requires flexible software tools. Using LabVIEW and the DSC Module, engineers are able to develop and implement customized, cost-effective, easily maintained, process control and quality management systems.
User Solution: Learn how Toshiba used LabVIEW and the DSC Module for manufacturing control.
Automation
Automating complex and lengthy experiments involving hundreds of controlled parameters can be very time consuming and challenging. LabVIEW and the DSC Module enable engineers to quickly develop flexible, user-configurable control and data acquisition systems, to automatically control and collect data from a wide range of process control elements. The LabVIEW DSC Module also features a full OPC client and server to easily network and automate your system with your current hardware.
User Solution: Learn how HydrogenSource used LabVIEW and the DSC Module to automate their process.
Other Applications
This is only a fraction of the applications that LabVIEW and the DSC Module are used for. Give us a call today at 1-866-LabVIEW (522-8439), and a NI engineer will be happy to discuss your application needs.
