NI Compact FieldPoint Receives Editors' Choice Award from Control Engineering
1/16/2003 - Editors of Control Engineering announced that National Instruments Compact FieldPoint distributed I/O product line received the Editors' Choice Award for one of the most significant innovations of the year 2002. "We reviewed thousands of products featured in Control Engineering in 2002, and NI Compact FieldPoint was one of only 35 products selected for our prestigious Editors' Choice Awards," said Mark Hoske, Control Engineering editor-in-chief. "Control Engineering editors select winners based on technological advancement, service to the industry and impact on the control market. Compact FieldPoint is among the leading products of 2002."
This distributed I/O product line delivers a small, rugged, intelligent platform that extends the reach of NI LabVIEW software to harsh industrial environments such as embedded machine control, industrial data acquisition, data logging and in-vehicle applications. Engineers and scientists once challenged by extreme industrial environments now can perform advanced measurement and control by integrating this intelligent distributed platform on a factory floor, within an industrial machine or in remote locations.
Compact FieldPoint incorporates a solid metal backplane for stand-alone mechanical ruggedness and stability. Users benefit from sturdy four or eight-slot backplanes and steel screw fasteners that enable this distributed I/O product line to endure high vibration applications, even when mounted on heavy machinery or in vehicles. This industrial form factor is the size of a large brick, measuring approximately 5x10x5 in., and withstands 50 g of shock and 5 g of RMS vibration.
Compact FieldPoint operates in temperatures ranging from -25 ºC to 60 ºC, enabling users to run embedded LabVIEW applications in extreme environments that cause many industrial PCs to fail.
"When designing Compact FieldPoint, we emphasized ruggedness, reliability and flexibility in wiring options, I/O module selection, controller options and mounting arrangements to meet customer needs," said John Hanks, National Instruments director of measurements. "As a result, Compact FieldPoint delivers unmatched analog measurement control, signal processing and data logging capabilities for embedded control applications previously not possible in extreme, remote conditions."
The Compact FieldPoint family consists of 20 I/O modules and three intelligent controllers that perform analog and discrete control, user-defined data logging and advanced inline math and signal processing. With these processing capabilities, engineers and scientists can perform signal generation, calculus, curve fitting, statistics and run PID loops, fuzzy logic and optimal control routines.
About Control Engineering
Control Engineering, www.controleng.com, covers the $130 billion worldwide control, instrumentation and automation systems marketplace. With circulation of 88,000, the magazine is the voice of the global automation industry, providing comprehensive information on technology, news and trends to end-users, original equipment manufacturers and system integrations across more than 64 industries.
About National Instruments
For more than 26 years, National Instruments has revolutionized the way engineers and scientists work by delivering virtual instrumentation solutions built on rapidly advancing commercial technologies, including industry-standard computers and the Internet. NI increases productivity for customers worldwide by delivering easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition and instrumentation. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,000 employees and direct operations in 37 countries. In 2001, the company sold products to more than 24,000 different companies in more than 60 countries around the world. For the past four consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
Previous Page | News by Category | News Search
If you found this page useful, bookmark and share it on:
If you are familiar with RSS feeds, you can also sign up for our free blog feed. Our RSS feed is updated in real-time while our newsletter is updated daily.
