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Machine Monitoring

With the right computing and instrumentation tools, you can lower the cost of maintenance and prolong the life of existing equipment. With National Instruments LabVIEW Real-Time, you can develop a reliable, stand-alone, and customizable continuous monitoring platform. Using LabVIEW Real-Time and RT targets, you develop modular, low-cost solutions that provide machine health monitoring and analysis capabilities, diverse I/O, and the ability to integrate with existing plant equipment.

Use LabVIEW Real-Time to decrease development time and increase system performance for machine monitoring applications.

Open Architecture
Advanced Analysis Capabilities
Customizable Data Presentation
Customer Solutions for Machine Monitoring

Open Architecture
National Instruments tools are designed as an open architecture platform. You can easily add third-party hardware and data access to the system. For example, you can easily interface LabVIEW with PLCs via built-in OPC servers.

The modular architecture of FieldPoint and PXI delivers a platform for easily customizing the I/O selection and controller specifications of your machine monitoring application.

PXI delivers a high-performance real-time platform that includes sophisticated timing and synchronization signals across all I/O.
FieldPoint provides a cost-effective platform for creating distributed and real-time applications with industrial hardware certifications.
Compact FieldPoint gives you a smaller, modular package suitable that integrate easily with existing legacy or PLC systems. Use this for industrial environments to embed all of the intelligence, advanced control, and analysis capabilities of LabVIEW.

Advanced Analysis Capabilities
Using the advanced control capabilities of LabVIEW, you can accurately predict when machine failures occur. LabVIEW features built-in functionality to quickly implement advanced analysis and control capabilities, such as octave analysis, PID, fuzzy logic, and custom control routines. In addition to the standard LabVIEW libraries, you can extend the analysis capabilities of LabVIEW with products such as the LabVIEW Order Analysis Toolset and LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolset.

Customizable Data Presentation
With built-in user interface objects and the flexible development environment of LabVIEW, you can easily customize data presentation for your machine monitoring applications. In addition to displaying meaningful data, you can log data and system parameters using built-in reports for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, XML, and HTML formats.

Customer Solutions for Machine Monitoring