Engineers, scientists and educators attend 2013 NI LabVIEW developer days

National Instruments recently hosted their 2013 LabVIEW Developer Days, a series of annual events providing an opportunity for new and existing LabVIEW users to learn about time-saving tips and expert development techniques.

Events took place in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland during May 2013, with well over 200 engineers, scientists and educators attending. They were free to attend and designed specifically to improve product skills, knowledge and productivity using award-winning NI LabVIEW system design software for the beginner, intermediate and advanced LabVIEW developer.

“The diversity of industries and applications where LabVIEW is being used by local engineers and scientists continues to grow, across industries including mining and transportation, academia and research, government and defence, advanced manufacturing and medical devices,” said Matej Krajnc, Managing Director for National Instruments Oceania and Africa.

“LabVIEW Developer Days provided engineers and scientists from a wide range of industries and varying application types with a unique opportunity to network with fellow developers and learn of time-saving development tips and programming techniques, as well as exploring some of the latest features and capabilities of NI LabVIEW.

“Also, with LabVIEW being used for so many innovative applications throughout Australia and New Zealand, these events provided our local developers with a great opportunity to provide user feedback and help drive the future direction of LabVIEW.”

Over 60 attendees took advantage of the opportunity to sit the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer Exam (CLAD), the first level of LabVIEW Certification, at the event.

NI engineers and LabVIEW experts that presented at the developer days included local NI technical consultants and applications engineers, as well as Mike Neal, Core Software Group Manager for the company.

Introductory programmers took a demo-centric tour through the LabVIEW platform to find out why graphical programming is used by tens of thousands of engineers across the globe to increase productivity and lower costs for test, control and design applications, and also explored analysis and signal processing techniques and how to use templates and sample projects.

Intermediate and advanced programmers learnt about the new features in LabVIEW 2012, NI’s vision for the LabVIEW platform, tips and tricks to improve performance, and also explored advanced design templates and sample projects.

Event presentations and other resources can be reviewed at http://australia.ni.com/devdays/resources.