NI announced NI InsightCM Enterprise, a new software offering that helps companies gain insight into the health of their capital equipment for machine maintenance and operations. With more than 15 years of experience in condition monitoring, NI developed NI InsightCM Enterprise as its first end-to-end software that addresses big analog data challenges and builds on…
Milliwatts to megawatts: measuring power with LabVIEW and NI hardware
One of the first steps of solving an engineering challenge is to define the problem. When discussing energy, the potential challenges include reducing usage and environmental impact, improving grid uptime and efficiency, and protecting equipment. All of these call for the same approach: Measure it. Fix it. Power is calculated from the measurements of voltage…
National Instruments cites 6 technology trends for 2014 that can accelerate productivity
Since the founding of the company in 1976, its mission has been to equip engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery. To do this, the company says it closely monitors trends across industries and draw on this insight to develop tools that integrate the ever-increasing power of available technology. Because NI…
Equipment World: Five of the latest wind products
How dirty is the oil? Particle counter tells OPCom II is an optical particle monitor. It consists of a measurement cell through which oil flows, a laser, and a photo diode. The laser shines through the measurement cell and strikes the photo diode. If a particle passes through the laser beam, it reduces the detection…