Test specialist has built greater levels of intelligence into its test instrumentation and software portfolio
This has included the use of Artificial Intelligence (NI) and natural language programming. The notion behind the improvements is to enable test engineers to spend more time on root cause analysis and collaborating across their business.
The company has applied its R&D efforts into its core products including LabVIEW software and TestStand.
The latest version of LabVIEW focuses on collaborative engineering workflows, integrating new features such as enhancements in diff and merge functions, version management and support for calling .NET Core Assemblies (.NET 8).
As part of this, AI can be used within development tools to increase user productivity. Capabilities include automating code description and documentation – a must-have feature for the common use case of an engineer inheriting code with unclear operation. In addition, the NI team is trialling AI technology with LabVIEW and collecting registrations for a broader program to launch soon.
This includes NI LabVIEW Community Edition, originally introduced in 2019, which is now free for students. Parts of NI LabVIEW, starting with Icon Editor, will also become open source to drive greater community collaboration.
To complement LabVIEW, NI InstrumentStudio Professional will launch in July and extend the functionality of the PXI companion software InstrumentStudio to cover a larger portion of the electronic validation workflow, including automation and measurement customisation. InstrumentStudio Pro is designed to work alongside LabVIEW and TestStand and will be automatically added to the LabVIEW+ suite.
Emerson is also strengthening its NI PXI hardware portfolio, incorporating recent additions such as the NI PXIe-5633 Vector Network Analyser (VNA) add-on module, the PXIe-6571 Digital Pattern Instrument and family of new controllers built on 11th generation Intel Core processors.
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