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Connecting LabVIEW to Profinet, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT and other Real-Time Ethernet Fieldbuses

Interfaces communicating with diverse fieldbuses are crucial for the integration of LabVIEW in modern networked production. While the capabilities of LabVIEW and NI hardware in the processing 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 […]

Let’s put a name to it! – Setting Profinet station names and IP addresses in LabVIEW

Unlike other real-time Ethernet buses, Profinet requires station names and IP addresses for slaves (IO-devices in Profinet nomenclature) in order to communicate with them. However, since these parameters are assigned on an application-specific basis, they are usually not available for Profinet devices that have just been manufactured and are now undergoing end-of-line testing. However, since […]

Pneumatic test solutions by müller+krahmer – from high-precision pressure measurement to complex pressure curve analysis

We at müller+krahmer have many years of experience in testing pneumatic components. The range of devices we test includes simple directional control valves as well as high-precision proportional valves, valve terminals, intelligent pneumatic sensors with bus interfaces, components for industrial applications as well as for installation in road and rail vehicles. The test methods and […]

LabVIEW and IO-Link – flexible connection to sensors and actuators

As we have already mentioned here, while LabVIEW is inherently strong at connecting analogue and digital signals, special solutions are required for communication with fieldbuses, such as our interface for the real-time Ethernet boards of Hilscher’s cifX family. Sometimes, however, a complete fieldbus connection is not necessary and it is sufficient to connect intelligent sensors and […]

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 […]

müller+krahmer has just been out and about again providing NI DIAdem training.

What we regularly notice is that many companies invest heavily in software, yet are very reluctant when it comes to training users to make the best use of it. It should be obvious, however, that only a user who knows and masters the software can work with it effectively. And let’s not forget: practical experience […]

Our analog-digital test bench twins – or: if the mountain won’t come to the prophet…

… that doesn’t mean the prophet has to go to the mountain. For us at müller+krahmer, this means, if our customers’ test benches can’t come to us (and they almost never can), we don’t necessarily have to travel to the customer’s site to commission systems, implement changes, or troubleshoot issues. Wherever remote access is unavailable […]

Farewell to LabVIEW because the licensing model isn’t suitable?

It has been several years now since NI switched its licensing model for its widely used development environment, LabVIEW, to annual subscriptions. Although this change has since been reversed, as it was recognised that it was unsuitable for many applications, it caused quite a stir in the relevant forums and social media channels for a […]