Discussions about the industrial market today are often focused on the vast potential in the industrial IoT (IIoT). The huge potential for innovation offers the promise of significant productivity gains, operational efficiency and bottom line revenue increases, but only if it’s enabled by a supply chain based on reliability, stability and longevity.

These values will be even more important as manufacturers and system integrators adopt greater levels of automation, connectivity and autonomy—all with faster design cycles and more competition i ...

Safety, availability, and cost considerations can make performing thorough tests of embedded control devices using the complete system impractical. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is a real-time test technique used to test these devices more efficiently. During HIL test, the physical system that interfaces to an embedded control device is simulated on real-time hardware, and the outputs of the simulator mimic the actual output of the physical system. The embedded controller “thinks” it is in a real system. HIL simulation meticulously test ...

Forward-looking enterprises are investing in digital transformation, acquiring technology and services that accelerate innovation, enhance competitiveness, and help develop new areas of growth. Workstations are often crucial for development and use of manufactured machines.

What you will learn in this infobrief:

1 Digital transformation means many key parts of the business now depend on specific and often very demanding applications.

2 The outcome of these applications can determine the health of the company.

3 Applications can ha ...

As advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) introduce new technology into vehicles, they need adaptable, futureproof test systems.

NI offers a single, software-defined platform approach to automotive test that can natively integrate all the I/O types you need to test today’s and tomorrow’s ADAS technology.

Read this whitepaper from National Instruments to find out more. ...

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are ubiquitous in today’s electronics designs. They make up an estimated 30% of the component count in many products, with a market value of more than $8 billion.

Recently, there have been shortages in MLCCs, with lead times extending to problematic lengths, and these capacity limitations are expected to extend to 2020 and beyond. In this whitepaper, we will look at the reasons for these shortages, and review the alternatives to MLCCs that are available to engineers. ...