Your Machines Don't Have to Fail

	September 20, 2011
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In This Issue

Condition Monitoring: Your Machines Don't Have to Fail Develop Modern Apps Faster With New Silver Controls

Performing unnecessary maintenance or running your machines until they fail is costing you time and money. Optimize your production with a condition monitoring system.

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Share: The new Silver Controls, created in honor of the 25th LabVIEW anniversary, sport rounded corners, drop shadows, and soft gradients to reflect current UI style.

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Tech Tips

Webcast: Engineers, Measurements, and Smartphones
Smartphone and tablet adoption has exploded over the past few years. Watch as we compare the mobile platforms on today’s market and learn how you can take advantage of these devices for portable or remote measurements.
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LabVIEW 101: Video Instruction for Students
NI recently launched a new video instruction series to help students learn LabVIEW from the ground up. Pass it on to the students in your life, and you might even learn a thing or two yourself!
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Webcast: Best Practices When Inheriting and Maintaining LabVIEW Code
This webcast shares tried and tested best practices and tips on how to maintain LabVIEW code from other engineers and scientists, to ensure the long-term maintainability of your application.
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Terabyte RF Instrumentation: Solving New Applications With High-Speed Storage Solutions
Continuously streaming RF signals to disk opens up a whole host of new applications for “streaming capable” instruments. Learn about several applications that benefit from this technology.
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Community Highlights

YouTube: Is This the Future of LabVIEW?
Could this be what engineering with LabVIEW looks like in the future? See our take on how LabVIEW will put the power in your hands to solve the world's biggest challenges.
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Sweet Apps: Here Comes the Bride...and LabVIEW!
See how one NI applications engineer took his love for LabVIEW to the next level by incorporating it into his real-life nuptials. Ryan Theuer used LabVIEW and NI-IMAQdx vision acquisition software to build a photo booth for his recent wedding.
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Example Code: Arbitrary Tone Generator Using a Graph Control
Using graph controls for frequency and volume, community user TroyK can generate whatever sounds he wants. Check out this great UI and start generating your own tones.
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Example Code: Convert PLC Code to LabVIEW Code Using Simultaneous While Loops
This VI simulates converting ladder logic code, which is widely used for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), into LabVIEW code by using multiple While Loops.
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What's New

Would You Let a Robot Cut Your Birthday Cake?
To create a customer service alternative and help students learn vision and motion control concepts, the Institute of Technical Education in Singapore built a birthday-themed robotic waiter.
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NI Opens Shared Operations Center in Costa Rica
NI opened the new facility on September 1 as part of an ongoing plan to optimize global operations supporting growth and customer service expansion in North, Central, and South America. It will employ 200 people over the next five years.
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Announcing NI VeriStand 2011 for Real-Time and HIL Testing
The latest version of NI VeriStand software helps engineers create real-time testing and simulation applications, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators and test cells, that have superior system flexibility and decrease test development time.
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Top 5 Ways LabVIEW Enhances Arduino

1. Interact With Your System Through a GUI »

2. Streamline Your Design With Graphical Programming »

3. Improve Debugging With Interactive Tools »

4. Use Built-In Libraries to Simplify Tasks »

5. Customize Your Programs With an Open API »

Events and Training
Smart Machine Webcast Series 2011 »

New Course: Using LabVIEW for Test and Automation in Regulated Markets »

Live Webcast Tomorrow! FPGAs and Graphical System Design for Industrial Applications »

Register for NIWeek 2012 »

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NI in the Press
Commercial Space Travel Gets Controls Boost »

Innovation in Smart Robotics »

Think Again: Control Engineering Technologies Can Save the World »

NIWeek Recap From Design World »

Featured LabVIEW Add-On
RF Analyzer
Use your RF PXI modules as a classical spectrum analyzer. RF Analyzer by WinSoft is an intuitive software panel that you can use to read center frequency, frequency span, reference level, and many more function values and display them in real time.
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