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TM Networking Machines Into The Enterprise While the network may offer The LabVIEW™ 6i benefits to the machine, a Platform Provides network-enabled machine is Powerful Tools for crucial to plugging into the the Manufacturing technical and business enterprise Floor of the company. page 3 For the past 25 years, the personal computer has Distributed Machine revolutionized the way companies do business, Vision – A Networked automating systems and increasing productivity while reducing costs. Now, the Web and Solution for Vision networking are adding a new dimension to the Systems Developers personal computer, giving companies the power to do business on a global scale. With networking page 6 technology, you can remotely view and control a system that is located in another part of the world, or you can monitor the factory floor from your office. An entire business enterprise comprised of databases and resource planning continued on page 4 The Industrial Automation Newsletter from National Instruments 5, Number 3 Third Quarter 2000 Volume AutomationView ni.com/automation VIEWPOINT ™ News from NI Developer Zone Here’s What e, at National Instruments, know Engineering Group, have also provided that your time is valuable. That’s detailed measurement tutorials in the You Missed... 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Experienced trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. systems integrators, such as Nelson 2 Third Quarter 2000 Tel: (512) 794-0100 • Fax: (512) 683-9300 • [email protected] • ni.com/automation LabVIEW 6i The LabVIEW 6i Platform Provides Powerful Tools for the Manufacturing Floor he Internet has undoubtedly changed Connectivity to Plant the way the world does business today. Floor Devices TWe make decisions and act faster than With LabVIEW tools for ever before by seamlessly sharing datalogging and supervisory information across an enterprise and control, manufacturers changing the way manufacturing processes manage and control are measured and automated. networked data across the LabVIEW 6i introduces powerful plant floor. LabVIEW gives new features for building Internet-ready you powerful data and measurement and automation applications. network system In addition to traditional measurement and management tools so you automation capabilities, LabVIEW offers can easily supervise and a range of functionality that includes control your distributed real-time, datalogging, and supervisory and high channel count control capabilities. manufacturing applications. The OPC client interface Internet-Ready Applications provides standardized Control Mixer Process with LabVIEW 6i connectivity to plant floor To share data with other applications for devices, making integration significantly application running on RT Series devices or distributed control or remote monitoring, easier in a multivendor environment and PXI/CompactPCI real-time controllers LabVIEW 6i now offers instant data providing you with more choices in continues to run even if the host PC crashes. publishing from any user interface object. No programming is required, and with only a few mouse clicks, you can quickly With LabVIEW tools for datalogging and supervisory control, connect or publish data to other manufacturers can share data seamlessly across the plant floor. applications or Web pages. In a hazardous or distributed environment, such as a plant floor, selecting hardware and software vendors for With LabVIEW 6i, National Instruments manufacturers may want to distribute your automation system. You can distribute extends Internet and measurement the application execution by moving data in a standard format to clients, functionality available to you through a the acquisition closer to the process and including HMI products and high-level wide variety of powerful tools that can performing the analysis and monitoring business systems, with OPC server increase your productivity on the on another networked machine. LabVIEW capabilities. By providing configurated tools manufacturing floor. can transparently distribute applications for high-channel count data management and share data across a network, even and supervisory control of distributed Stefano Zanetti, Automation Software among different operating systems. For systems, you can keep track of all data Product Manager tighter integration of the application with pertaining to your manufacturing process.