Energy Asset Embedded Control and Monitoring

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Enhance Operational Efficiency and Reliability

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Reliability of critical assets in the energy industry demands ruggedness, customization, and fast pace of development. NI embedded solutions combine these attributes to help you meet operational efficiency, uptime, and resourcing expectations with:

  • Measurement and control hardware built for harsh and demanding environments from oilfields to turbines
  • Embedded and programmable platform for control and monitoring with significantly faster response times than typical PLCs
  • Software that integrates and can interoperate with other tools to better scale for I/O or protocol communication needs

Ensure Reliable Operation of the Most Critical Service Assets

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CompactRIO platform offers key capabilities for reliable embedded control and monitoring:

  • Faster control speeds than typical PLCs. CompactRIO-based systems are deterministic and reliably stop operation of critical assets when limits are reached—before failure.
  • Rugged hardware with conformal coating withstands oilfield conditions for temperature (-40 to 70 °C), shock (50 g), vibration (5 g), and moisture, reducing the need for extra enclosing.
  • LabVIEW graphical programming accelerates real-time and FPGA software development, helping you bring assets to market months earlier than your competitors.
  • NI’s partner ecosystem extends the platform to add specialized and custom I/O, as well as protocol communication, allowing you to finish development with fewer in-house resources.

LabVIEW has made the software development side much quicker. What most C programmers take two years to do, we can accomplish in a couple of months. We can use that time savings to get to market quicker and capitalize on our competitors’ lag time.

Robert Stewart

CEO

Lime Instruments, LLC

Work with an NI Partner

The NI Partner Network is a global community of domain, application, and test experts working with NI to meet your needs. NI Partners are trusted solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, product developers, and services- and sales-channel experts skilled in a range of industry and application areas.

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