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Made by users, for users – our DIAdem training courses

Anyone looking for DIAdem training courses will find a whole range of options and be faced with the question of which one to choose. We don’t know what the most outstanding feature of other providers is, but we can claim to know the practical requirements and how to teach them. We have been working with […]

Are you utilising the full potential of NI DIAdem?

NI describes its DIAdem application software as a tool ‘for quickly finding, testing, analysing and documenting measurement data.’ It is often forgotten that DIAdem is also a practical tool for performing a wide range of measurement and control tasks. Numerous drivers and interfaces are available for this purpose. Finally, the integrated script functionality not only […]

More than 100 MB of measurement data per minute

This amount of data must be processed by one of our evaluation applications for test bench data. Only a handful of characteristic parameters remain from complex time curves and a million measurement values. And only these parameters – and, above all, their changes over the course of the test, which can last days or weeks […]

Educational for us too – our LabVIEW training courses

After a longer break, we recently held another LabVIEW training course – a combination of LabVIEW Core 1 and 2 on behalf of NI. Although we work with the software on an almost everyday basis, it is always useful for us to discuss the underlying programming concept and question some of our own practices. This […]

LabVIEW – all or nothing?

Our software for universal automotive test benches is available in three versions: as a pure LabVIEW solution or based on TwinCAT with either LabVIEW or DIAdem as the user interface. We can vary the software structure depending on customer requirements in terms of software environment, flexibility, hardware interfaces and, last but not least, software licence […]

Analyse large amounts of data individually at the click of a button? It’s possible – with NI DIAdem and our applications.

Up to four railway wagons, equipped with hundreds of sensors and exposed to cold, heat or storms, deliver data over days and weeks in the world’s largest climate wind tunnel at Rail Tec Arsenal in Vienna – and the results are available in seconds. How does it work? With an NI DIAdem-based application for automatic […]

‘Automation saves us 30% time – every day!’

That’s what the project manager at Volkswagen says about our solution for recording and evaluating quiescent current measurements in motor cars. How does it work? Through consistent, end-to-end automation. All the information is obtained from the test order system in order to automatically perform both the respective measurement and the associated evaluation. The parameter structure […]

What Siemens can do, we can do too!

We recently posted on LinkedIn about an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a PC with a Profinet interface from Siemens. Of course, this did not change the customer’s needs. And since system integration is also part of our services, we now offer the IPC327G with Hilscher cifX M3042100BM – fully assembled, with all the necessary software […]

It doesn’t always have to be LabVIEW and Profinet, …

… as described in this post. In fact, we often combine LabVIEW and EtherCAT (not least because NI itself uses EtherCAT on its cRIO platform) and sometimes also LabVIEW and SERCOS III. Sometimes we also have to switch between buses, as is the case with our multi-bus-capable test benches, where the bus can change from […]

LabVIEW and Profinet communication – how to combine?

This has been the trending topic of our customer inquiries in recent weeks. While the capabilities of LabVIEW and NI hardware in the acquisition and output of analog signals are undisputed, the situation is different when it comes to connecting real-time Ethernet buses. Numerous forum discussions and questions from our customers prove this. For a […]

Have you ever checked how much money is spent on software licences in your area of responsibility?

And how much software services tailored to your needs could you purchase with the money saved if you only paid for the software licences you actually need? Those who offer software services based on standard software often encounter a striking contradiction: while the costs for a solution tailored to the client and the application are […]

We’ve known it for a while – Emerson and NI fit together

For more than 20 years we support the Emerson subsidiary Aventics with solutions based on NI hardware and software, such as compactRIO, LabVIEW and DIAdem. Therefore we look forward to see what synergies will result for our work from Emerson’s acquisition of NI.

Integrating hardware into test systems – best done with real-time Ethernet

At müller+krahmer, we develop software for a wide variety of test applications. This works best when the hardware we use is flexible and easy to handle. And what could be simpler on a pneumatic test bench than hardware that covers all electrical and pneumatic interfaces in a single system? One such system is the AES […]

How can you see in our work that Christmas is coming?

Among other things, by the fact that we are testing a LiDAR sensor on a Christmas stollen (a typical German cake). However, it is not actually the sensor from Sick’s TiM5xx series that is being tested, but the DIAdem driver that we have created for it. As mentioned many times before, NI DIAdem can not […]

DIAdem, LabVIEW, TwinCAT – three software platforms in one test bench. Does that make sense?

Yes, if the aim is to continue using proven functionality and enable cost-effective adaptation to new requirements. Yes, if each software is used to do what it does best – DIAdem for visualisation, data analysis and reporting, LabVIEW for creating a wide variety of hardware interfaces, and TwinCAT for PC-based real-time control. Yes, if easy-to-use, […]

Just want to display some PLC data? It’s easy with NI LabVIEW or NI DIAdem and our bus interfaces!

There is powerful visualization software available for every PLC that can display current system states in almost any way. And yet there is sometimes the need for a simple way to record, visualize, save and analyze PLC data. If the PLC has a fieldbus interface (e.g. Profinet, EtherCAT, SERCOS III or Ethernet/IP), this is very […]

Where is the big analogue data? Here!

For a long time, it was everywhere, but recently there wasn’t much to hear about – NI’s big analogue data (TM), characterised by the five Vs: volume, variety, velocity, value and visibility. Of course, it is still there and growing. Perhaps it has fallen out of the spotlight because we have become accustomed to it. […]

Data handling using NI SystemLink – live at our virtual factory

The use case is typical: many sources provide data that is evaluated in a standardized way and then used by a group of users. In this specific case,  measurements on vehicles in drive simulations produce large amounts of data around the clock. This data is processed, searched for events and used to calculate characteristic parameters. […]

Cyclic EtherCAT SDO communication or: The customer is always right!

Process data objects (PDOs) are typically used in EtherCAT (and other fieldbuses) to transport (cyclical) real-time data, while service data objects (SDOs) are used for (acyclical) parameterization. But what if the PDOs are not available for cyclical control due to customer requirements, but the reaction of the test object to cyclical setpoints is to be […]

Yes, DIAdem can also measure! For example via a Yokogawa power meter.

This week’s NI workshop in Munich focuses on DIAdem software. NI describes DIAdem as a tool “to quickly find, test, analyze and document measurement data.” It is often forgotten that DIAdem is also a practical tool for performing a wide range of measurement and control tasks. Numerous drivers and interfaces are available for this purpose. […]