The Results Are In: Get a 4X Advantage With NI Embedded Design

Featured Survey Questions

• Your Current embedded project team includes how many of the following types of engineers: software engineers, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers?
• Thinking now about the last embedded project you completed using NI products (no longer in development), how many months did that project take to finish?
• Was that project completed?

Results:

Using the LabVIEW RIO architecture, NI embedded customers:

• Spend 114 fewer person-months per embedded design project
• Reduce embedded system design costs by $949,9171 per project
• Can produce 4 embedded projects for the same R&D budget* as opposed to 1 using traditional custom embedded

What Can You Do With a 4X Advantage?

• How many more value-added capabilities can you provide to your customers with an additional 114 months of R&D?
• How much more business can you win by being $950,000 more efficient than your competition?
• What additional products can you develop with 3 more embedded projects per year with the same R&D budget?

What Other NI Customers Are Doing With Their 4X Advantage

Smart Machine Control

• Developing Smart Tools for the Airbus Factory of the Future
• Master Machinery Builds Semiconductor Pick and Place Machine With CompactRIO and LabVIEW
• Nilfisk-Advance A/S: Using NI Single-Board RIO and LabVIEW to Build a Self-Propelled, Piggery-Washing Robot
• Wise Technologies Ltd.: Developing the WiseWELDING Machine Vision System for Adaptive Robotic Welding

Embedded Control

• Ventura Aerospace Embedded FedEx Fire Suppression System Using NI LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO
• Wineman Technology Inc.: Controlling an Echogen Power Systems Waste Heat Engine with NI Software and Hardware

Energy, Renewables, Electric Power and Smart Grid

• Diverse Energy Ltd: Bringing Mobile Phone Coverage to Rural Areas With a Green, Off-Grid Energy Solution
• Duke Energy: Deploying Smart Maintenance and Diagnostics Update for Electrical Power Generation
• ELCOM, a.s.: A Complete, Off-the-Shelf Power Quality Analysis Platform Using NI CompactRIO
• NexGEN Consultancy Pvt Ltd: Creating a Smart Grid Monitoring and Control System Using LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO
• Vestas Technology Improving the Efficiency of Wind Turbines with an Intelligent Measurement and Control System
• Windlift: Powering Remote Villages with Revolutionary Airborne Wind Technology Using NI CompactRIO

Power Conversion, Inverter Control

• Dynapower Reduces Power Converter Development Time With the NI GPIC
• Dynapower Corporation Carbon Battery DC/DC Converters
• E-Power Swiss 500 kW Solar Inverters—One-Year Development Cycle for Design, Prototyping, Certification, Manufacturing, and Commercial Deployment
• Feedback from Eaton Corporation Lead Engineer for Power Systems & Architectures,Yakov Familiant
• NREL collaborates with Semikron, National Instruments and the California Energy Commission to develop Modular 50 kW Power Block
• SmartPower Stack Consortium Announces Selection of National Instruments Single-Board RIO General Purpose Inverter Controller

Oil & Gas

• China Oilfield Services Limited: Developing a LWD Embedded Processing Unit Based on CompactRIO
• Lime Instruments Business Impact Case Study
• Lime Instruments, LLC: Oil Well Fracture Pump Monitoring and Analysis Using LabVIEW and NI RIO Technology
• SubC Solutions: Developing a Subsea Flow Line Connection Tool Controlled by CompactRIO
• Synodon, Inc.: Building a Powerful Remote Leak-Detection Platform for Aerial Surveys With the LabVIEW Real-Time Module, Multisim, and PXI

Transportation and Heavy Equipment

• DANSK TEKNOLOGI: Using CompactRIO and LabVIEW to Reduce NOx Emissions from Ship Engines
• Technologies & Solutions Private Limited: Developing a Compact Data Logger for Railroad and Rail Vehicle Performance Validation

Life Sciences

• Active Diagnostics: Prototyping and Deploying a Neurosurgery Training Device Using NI LabVIEW, R Series, and Embedded Hardware
• Dynatek dalta Scientific Instruments: Using LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO to Create a Universal Controller for Cardiovascular Products
• Endo Tools Therapeutics s.a: Removing Digestive Tumors With a Therapeutic Endoscopy Teleoperation Robot Controlled by LabVIEW
• ePower Technology: Using NI Single-Board RIO as an OEM Motor Controller for Medical Muscle Testing and Training Equipment
• Hepa Wash GmbH: Using LabVIEW and CompactRIO to Create a Liver Dialysis Prototype Authorized for Clinical Trials in Germany
• KC BioMediX Inc.: Using Graphical System Design to Rapidly Develop a Low-Cost Device for Helping Premature Infants Learn to Oral Feed
• OptiMedica Improving Retinal Disease Treatment with LabVIEW FPGA and Intelligent DAQ
• PBS Biotech Inc.: PBS Biotech Creates Innovative Bioreactor Platform Using LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO
• Santec Corporation: Using NI FlexRIO to Develop a High-Speed, Compact OCT Imaging System
• Sanarus: Using Graphical System Design for Tumor Treatment

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about NI graphical system design tools 
• Meet the Other Half of Your R&D Team: Understanding Design, Test, and Validation for NI Embedded Products
• Have the Confidence to Build Rugged and Reliable Embedded Systems that Last
• A brief history of NI investments to provide a complete toolchain for digital energy control systems