One goal of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center on Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) is to explore how advanced fluid power technology can be used in a wider range of applications. A significant market need has been identified for an improved mobile device for transferring mobility limited people—particularly bariatric patients. Typical transfers […]
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Day 2 of NI Week is “applications day”
Day 2 of NI Week continued to inspire those in attendance, with the keynote focusing on all the fascinating projects being done in the field with NI’s LabVIEW and CompactRIO architecture. Think of it as applications day. We heard about a crazy spectrum of applications, including CERN researchers sized down massive particle accelerators into smaller […]
NI Week 2013 and the big data revolution
The world is changing in data-driven ways that are sometimes hard even for engineers to fully grasp. Call it the Industrial Revolution 4.0 or the Internet of Things or Cyber-Physical Systems or The Programmable World—but National Instruments is a key player in this “big data” driven world, with its LabVIEW software and CompactRIO hardware systems. […]