Designing an HiL test system, need to modernize your laboratory, or do you just dabble in LabVIEW in your spare time? Meet DISTek’s system designers and LabVIEW architects at NI Days Chicago October 15. DISTek engineers will be at booth 19 to answer any questions you may have, maybe even that tough engineering question that has been eluding you. Put them to the challenge and see what they can do for you.
It was another great week of the Farm Progress Show this year. Just like in so many years past, the weather stayed hot and the booths stayed packed. This was my first appearance at the Farm Progress Show for DISTek Integration and I doubt that it will be my last.
DISTek Integration, Inc. has been awarded a 2015 Top Workplaces honor by the Des Moines Register. The Top Workplaces lists are based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey administered by WorkplaceDynamics, LLC, a leading research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace improvement.
This year the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) was held in Boston, Silicon Valley and will be held in Minneapolis later this year.
DISTek hosted their annual summer event at George Wyth State Park in Waterloo, Iowa this year. The family friendly picnic took place in the early evening hours of Friday, July 17th. DISTek employees, spouses, and their families were invited to come together for food, fun, and camaraderie .
The 2015 National Instruments NI Week was a real eye opener for me. From a sales perspective, it was amazing to see just how many of the top companies in their field use NI products so pervasively.
In this final installment of the ISOBUS Task Controller (TC) series, I will cover a few other features of TC that are relatively new.
Shawn Pezley, father, mentor, and coach, delves into the value of FIRST Lego League.
In Part 3 of my Task Controller series, I promised to get this Part 4 out close to the time of Spring Plugfest … and I missed by over a month. Regardless, here is Part 4.
In this Task Controller (TC) series, I have detailed data collection and variable-rate application. The final big feature of TC is Section Control. This feature also has an ISOBUS Functionality called TC-SC. Most people have an idea what section control is, but for the uninitiated … section control will turn on/off various controllable sections of an implement to avoid overlap in a field.
I’ve recently been developing a deeper, more passionate skillset for the ever-so important topic of “system” engineering. Our team just completed the creation of a model to simulate a simple tank, where our embedded software would monitor and dispense product from the tank, and our “plant” model would take the output of our embedded software, “act” as the actual product the software is controlling, and provide our software with inputs so it knows how to control the outputs, thus creating a closed-loop system. This helps us simulate and test our control strategy in a simulated environment.
In a recent project, I implemented an automated report generator using NI DIAdem. DIAdem uses templates and Windows scripting to parse, analyze, and display test results. This capability can save significant time for the test engineers while inspecting, analyzing, and graphing test results.
The last two months we have covered how to do data acquisition in .NET. This month we will go over how to integrate LabVIEW and .NET together in a hybrid application. I am going to demonstrate how to use a LabVIEW server application to acquire data using DAQmx and send it to a .NET client application. The client can then display the data using more visually appealing Microsoft controls and then sends the data back to the server to demonstrate two-way TCP communication.
