Industrial Measurement and ControlWhen it comes to designing new machines or optimizing existing plants, remaining competitive in the industrial automation market is a challenging task. To increase productivity, you must be able to effectively integrate electronics into your machines and plants with high-speed control, precision motion, analog measurements, and human machine interfaces (HMIs). Measurements for Automation
Machine Design and Control
NI Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs)
Featured Product: NI Smart Cameras
Featured Product: NI CompactRIO
NI PAC Software: LabVIEW
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Acquiring accurate and timely measurements is the foundation of any industrial monitoring or control system. With NI industrial measurement hardware, you can acquire high-speed and high-resolution data even in the most demanding industrial environments.
Whether you are designing a new machine or optimizing an existing plant, NI PACs can improve productivity and reduce operating cost by offering an integrated platform for high-speed control, accurate measurements, precise motion, vision, and HMIs.
Integrating the benefits of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), PCs, and custom hardware, NI PACs, programmed with LabVIEW, combine PLC reliability and ruggedness, PC processing, and custom circuitry performance. Using NI PACs, you can design, prototype, and deploy industrial systems faster and more economically. 
NI Smart Cameras combine a charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor and a real-time embedded processor in a small, rugged package. These cameras work with the entire suite of vision algorithms available in the NI vision software platform.
NI CompactRIO is a small, rugged embedded control and data acquisition system. It contains a real-time processor, a reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and a wide variety of analog and digital I/O modules.
LabVIEW is a graphical development environment combining the ease of use of configuration-based tools with the flexibility of a powerful programming language. Specify system functionality by assembling and connecting function blocks.