Thang Nguyen

Thanks for all your inputs.

I worked in company building EOL test systems for different manufactures which use TestStand and LabVIEW so I understand what need to communicate with different devices and instruments. Now my current company builds bio instrument and there is a requirement from our customers to integrate our instrument to their automation systems. That is why I would like to understand what is the standard of bio automation systems since I don't know much about the automation in bio industry. Now, I guess there is not much different with other industries. Thank you everyone.

Hi, I used to work with oil&gas industry which use OPC or modbus, then I work with agriculture vehicle which use CAN. I don't really know what they use to communicate between systems, instrument in bio automation manufacture or lab environment. Could you please share some information with me? Thank you in advance!

I am maintaining the code of two controllers (cRIO and CVS) in a system. Each of them handle request from ethernet communication like a server with input is string data type. And each of them handle hundreds of message like that. In the future the number of commands can be increased. Now the fun part is we decide to merge these two controllers into one. I am trying to find the best way to merge these two case structures together and how to handle this better. I am thinking about rewriting this using inherited child class to catch each command. But as I know this only work if I use the child on the client side too. In the future if I need to developer the client by different language such as Python, I am not sure how to send the command to match with side of server.

Find out the feature/function you need on your project then search with that specific keyword. Look in Find Examples to see how that is implemented. There are many videos on Youtube nowadays too. Go back here ask with more specific questions

LabVIEW Professional: $2,771.00 /year Vision Development Module: $2,021.00 /year This is pricey!

Thank you very much for your answer.

@Antoine Chalons I am at the phase making decision on specific hardware and OS to run with so I am need to clear up on some information. After doing more research about Windows IOT, specifically Windows IOT Enterprise and Windows Enterprise, I wonder if you choose to use the Windows IOT Enterprise because it comes pre-install on the controller you want to work with? Or because it has some specific features which make you choose to use it?

@Antoine Chalons Thank you very much! Your information is very value to me.

@Antoine Chalons Can I run LabVIEW on Windows Iot? Do you know any limitation? May I ask why do you switch to NI controller since you said you used to use Advantech IPC?

Thanks @Tim_S for the lifecycle page Thanks @Antoine Chalons and @Jordan Kuehn for sharing expert knowledge about vision controller. @Antoine Chalons May I ask if Advantech IPC with Win 10 iot is a good option? Currently, we use only one camera for processing but we plan to update to dual cameras very soon. Can I use LabVIEW with Win 10 iot?

Our company used NI RT controller CVS-1459 RT. Without any information, they discontinued this controller and suggest us about IC-3121. And we just found out it will discontinue the end of this year. All of this happen in one year. I contacted NI for replacement product and they suggest IC-3120 which has 2 ethernet ports instead of 2 USB 3.0 which we use to connect our cameras. NI engineer then suggest IC-3171 which is $1,700 higher than IC-3121 which is $3,000. What I am worry is we don't have any information ahead. I work with LabVIEW for 15 years. I used to have connection with NI sell representative. Now I don't have any information about the product timeline at all. I contacted with NI sale and they are now Newark company and they cannot answer me about controller replacement. What should I do in this case? Is there any person in NI should I contact with?

I contacted NI support and they confirm that CVS/cRIO will not be able to connect with myRIO.