NI LabVIEW
also: LabVIEW · G programming
NI's graphical programming environment for test, measurement, and control systems, widely used for lab automation and production test stations.
LabVIEW programs are graphical block diagrams with tight integration to NI and third-party instruments and data acquisition hardware. It is common in labs, validation rigs, and manufacturing test stations.
Where it bites: licensing (now subscription-based), graphical code that is hard to review and version, dependence on NI drivers and hardware, and a smaller pool of developers than text-based languages.
Outside help is worth it for automating test rigs and data acquisition, building production test software, and maintaining or migrating legacy LabVIEW code.
Common requests
- Automating test rigs and data acquisition
- Production test station software
- Instrument control
- Maintaining or migrating legacy LabVIEW code
Founder takeaway
Choose test software your team can maintain for the product's life; a test station nobody can change becomes a production bottleneck.
official site: ni.com/en/shop/labview.html · NI (Emerson)
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