NI's Compact FieldPoint takes LabView into harsh environments

Staff -- Control Engineering, 12/1/2002

Austin, TX-National Instruments launched Nov. 5 its new Compact FieldPoint product line, which provides a small, rugged, intelligent platform that extends the reach of its LabView software into harsh industrial environments, such as embedded machine control, industrial data acquisition, data logging and in-vehicle applications. Engineers and scientists can use Compact FieldPoint to perform advanced measurement and control by integrating its intelligent distributed platform on a factory floor, in a machine, or in remote locations. Compact FieldPoint's 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. Using these processing capabilities, users can perform signal generation, calculus, curve fitting, statistics, and run PID loops, fuzzy logic, and optimal control routines.