Data acquisition
Requirements understanding
Although their production line is properly instrumented, our customers still need an efficient tool to acquire the data. Depending on the process involved, many difficulties might arise such as the acquisition frequency, the amount of data to be stored, the design of a user-friendly User Interface or the communication with the Programmable Logic Controllers.
We transpose our customer expectations into a reliable and customized solution. With our long experience in software development, we are aware of the limitations and ways to solve them.
Programming language
We code our software in LabView a worldwide known language dedicated to data acquisition and provided by National Instruments. Using LabView offers many advantages among which :
Code architecture
Our codes are based on Object Oriented programming method and more specifically we are using the Actor Framework from National Instruments. Although many techniques exist for creating an application in LabVIEW, we chose the Actor Framework because it focuses on being easy to learn (relative to other possibly-more-powerful tools) while mitigating risk of deadlocks/race conditions and maximizing code reuse.
The Object Oriented Programming method gives us the ability to run several actors in parallel. Typically, the first actor takes care of the images grabbing, the second manages the processing and another records the processed data. This kind of architecture ensures the ease of integrating a new actor and consequently guarantees the scalability and flexibility of our solutions.
Certification
Our Certified LabView Developer (CLD) guarantees a high level of quality along the development steps.
