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National Instruments (NI)

NI announces CEO transition plan, appoints Alex Davern new CEO

August 30, 2016 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

National Instruments (NI) announced that its Board of Directors has elected Alex Davern, age 49, to serve as Chief Executive Officer and President of National Instruments, effective January 1, 2017. Davern will succeed Dr. James Truchard, age 73, who has served as the Chief Executive Officer of NI since the company’s founding in 1976. Dr. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Industry News Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

National Instruments celebrates 40 years of innovation

May 12, 2016 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

National Instruments (NI) will recognize four decades of innovation in 2016. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the company’s founding, the City of Austin has proclaimed May 14, 2016 to be NI Day. To celebrate, NI invites the Austin community to enjoy a free day at the Thinkery, where the next generation of engineers and […]

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

New controllers for design of industrial internet of things (IIoT)

August 4, 2015 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

National Instruments now sells new embedded systems hardware based on the open, flexible LabVIEW reconfigurable I/O (RIO) architecture. This hardware includes the high-performance CompactRIO Controller for integrators with rugged, industrial applications, Controller for FlexRIO for designers with high-performance embedded applications and Single-Board RIO Controller for designers who require more flexibility in their embedded applications. These controllers integrate […]

Filed Under: Controls, Industry News Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

Fun at NIWeek

August 8, 2013 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

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I saw something interesting as day two of NIWeek progressed: families, with small children wandering throughout the conference and exhibit halls. At first I thought it was a bit strange, but once I really began to explore the exhibit floor for myself, I understood why National Instruments invited families to attend the event. One of […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Industry News Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

A first-timer’s look at NIWeek

August 7, 2013 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

This is my first time at NI Week and the first word that comes to mind is “impressive.”  Throughout the morning keynote presentations on Tuesday, you could really tell that the NI staff, from marketing to product managers and design engineers, truly love what they do here and enjoy making the products that will, in […]

Filed Under: Controls, Drives + Supplies, Editor Blogs, Industry News, Servo Drives, Stepper Drives Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

NI’s PXIe-8135 offers industry leading performance

October 17, 2012 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

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National Instruments has recently unveiled the NI PXIe-8135 embedded controller, which features USB 3.0 connectivity and the quad-core third generation Intel Core i7 processor, making it the fastest PXI embedded controller in the industry. Using the efficient PXIe-8135 embedded controller, engineers can attain shorter test times and higher automated test throughput. This further advances PXI […]

Filed Under: Controls Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

Ingenia Releases New LabVIEW Motion Control Library

May 9, 2012 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Ingenia Motion Control announces the release of a new library for National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming environment. This library allows for single-axis movement using Ingenia CANopen Digital Servo Drives. This will significantly improve the development time for any application using DC, stepper or brushless motors with LabVIEW and will allow the user to rapidly start […]

Filed Under: Drives + Supplies, Networking + IoT, Servo Drives Tagged With: Ingenia Motion Control, National Instruments (NI)

NI unveils new motion and vision hardware with NI RIO technology

October 27, 2011 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

National Instruments (www.ni.com) has expanded its portfolio of NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology with the addition of a motion module for CompactRIO and a reconfigurable Camera Link frame grabber. A PC-based embedded vision board, the NI PCIe-1473R frame grabber seamlessly combines Camera link interface with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to allow engineers to easily create […]

Filed Under: Drives + Supplies, Servo Drives Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

National Instruments Releases New High-Performance Servo Drives and Motors

August 5, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

National Instruments announces new AKD Servo Drives and AKM Servo Motors that make it possible for engineers and scientists to easily build scalable, distributed motion control systems. The new products simplify setup and configuration for deploying custom motion applications to any NI real-time controller supporting NI EtherCAT technology including NI CompactRIO, PXI real-time controllers and […]

Filed Under: Drives + Supplies, Motors, Servo Drives, Servo Motors Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

National Instruments introduces latest products for connecting NI LabVIEW to Industrial Networks

June 10, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is proud to announce the release of new interfaces for DeviceNet, PROFIBUS and FOUNDATION Fieldbus that allow industrial control engineers to connect embedded systems, LabVIEW and programmable automation controllers (“PACs”) to existing industrial networks. The latest interfaces give engineers the ability to add advanced control, high-speed measurements and analysis, data logging and […]

Filed Under: Controls, PLCs + PACs, Software Tagged With: National Instruments (NI)

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