LabVIEW in harsh industrial environments

29 January 2003 Test & Measurement

National Instruments' Compact FieldPoint product line delivers a small, rugged, intelligent platform that extends the reach of its LabVIEW software to harsh industrial environments such as embedded machine control, industrial data acquisition data logging, and in-vehicle applications.

Compact FieldPoint is robustly designed. Engineers, once challenged by extreme industrial environments, now can perform advanced measurement and control by integrating this intelligent distributed platform on a factory floor, within an industrial machine, or in remote locations. The Compact FieldPoint family consists of 20 I/O modules and three intelligent controllers that perform analog and discrete control, user-defined data logging, and advanced-in-line math and signal processing. With these processing capabilities, signal generation, calculus, curve fitting, statistics, and run PID loops, fuzzy logic, and optimal control routines can be performed.

Compact FieldPoint incorporates a solid metal backplane for standalone mechanical ruggedness and stability. Users benefit from sturdy four or eight-slot backplanes and steel screw fasteners that enable it to endure high vibration applications, even when mounted on heavy machinery or in vehicles. This industrial form factor is the size of a large brick, measuring 12,7 x 23 x 12,7 cm, and withstands 50 g of shock and 5 g of RMS vibration. It operates from -25 to 60°C.

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