Emerson's Test and Measurement business, formerly NI, reiterates its commitment to its comprehensive test approach and unveils significant updates to its core software products, including NI LabVIEW™ and Intelligent Test Intelligence. Shares his vision for practitioners.
At NI Connect 2024, a conference for customers, partners, and industry leaders, Emerson showcased the latest NI hardware and software advancements that improve the efficiency of engineers performing root cause analysis across their organization. And spend more time on collaboration.
“Our software-centric, modular hardware test is our unique value proposition and a differentiator for our customers,” said Ritu Favre, group president of Emerson's test and measurement business. “We are excited to share our vision for harnessing the power of AI in test and measurement and to continue our commitment to innovation in our industry-leading NI products. Through a leadership approach, we will revolutionize the intelligent test industry around the world.”
Emerson is committed to providing strong support for R&D efforts in core NI-branded products such as LabVIEW and TestStand™ and building a comprehensive, integrated workflow with complementary products within the NI LabVIEW+™ suite to drive continuous improvement at NI. The drum beat can be maintained. Technology and software roadmap. New NI product developments introduced at NI Connect include:
The latest iteration of NI LabVIEW focuses on collaborative engineering workflows, adding new features such as diff and merge functions, version management and support for calling .NET Core assemblies (.NET 8). .
NI experts demonstrated how AI can be used in development tools such as LabVIEW to increase user productivity. Capabilities include automated code description and documentation – a must-have feature for a typical use case with an engineer's implicit operation of legacy code. In addition, the NI team is testing AI technology with LabVIEW and collecting registrations for a larger program to begin soon.
LabVIEW “Community Edition” free for students
Building on these investments, the company announced that NI LabVIEW Community Edition, originally introduced in 2019, is now free for students. Parts of NI LabVIEW, starting with the icon editor, will also become open source to enhance community support.
NI PXI Hardware News
Emerson continues to strengthen its NI PXI hardware portfolio, with recent additions such as the NI PXIe-5633 Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) add-on module, the PXIe-6571 digital pattern instrument and 11th generation Intel Core processors. Includes a family of new controllers built on . These efforts underscore Emerson's commitment to expanding its solutions catalog, similar to the NI Semiconductor Test System (STS), which is celebrating its 10th anniversary.