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Machine Design Webcast Series

This webcast series provides an overview of machine design technologies for increasing innovation and lowering development cost and risk. Explore cutting-edge design technologies and discuss the business challenges, opportunities, and technology factors impacting modern machine builders.

Lowering the Cost of Machine Design
Duration: 9 minutes
Explore new technology and industry trends in the first of a series of nine webcasts covering current machine design challenges.


More Machine Design Series Webcasts

Introduction to Mechatronics

Duration: 12 minutes
Learn how mechatronics technology can help you lower development costs, reduce risk, and produce higher-quality products.

Graphical System Design for Faster Machine Design

Duration: 15 minutes
Examine the definition of graphical system design, ways graphical development empowers designers, and the reuse advantage of a common deployment architecture.

Introduction to Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) Technology

Duration: 19 minutes
Learn how NI PAC technology can help you optimize an existing automation system with advanced measurements, enhance the functionality of a PLC-based control system, or design a new machine control and monitoring system.

Monitoring with NI LabVIEW and PACs

Duration: 15 minutes
Explore the technologies and configuration of a monitoring and measurement system including high-speed signal acquisition, embedded analysis, and signal processing.

Data Logging with NI LabVIEW and PACs

Duration: 19 minutes
Examine high-level file types, such as ASCII and binary, as well as code for simple data logging with an NI PAC and LabVIEW.

How to Control with NI LabVIEW and PAC

Duration: 17 minutes
Learn the necessary steps to implement a PID algorithm that runs on Compact FieldPoint. Also explore advanced model-based controllers and a comparison between PID and Model Predictive Control.

Integrate NI PACs with Any PLC

Duration: 11 minutes
Add advanced analysis and control functionality (available through NI LabVIEW software and programmable automation controllers (PACs)) to any programmable logic controller in three different ways: digital I/O, OPC, and gateways. Learn about the three different techniques and the advantages and disadvantages of each technique.

Essential Deployment Technologies

Duration: 20 minutes
Explore two options for developing a new controller - build or buy - and discuss the technical and financial risks associated with both.