National Instruments Corporation: NI DIAdem

National Instruments (www.ni.com) transforms the way engineers and scientists around the world design, prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design applications. Using NI open graphical programming software and modular hardware, customers at more than 30,000 companies annually simplify development, increase productivity, and dramatically reduce time-to-market. From testing and monitoring electronic devices and industrial systems to designing more efficient machines, NI customers continuously develop innovative technologies that impact millions of people. The NI graphical system design platform for test, control, and embedded design spans the entire product design cycle, dramatically increasing efficiency and improving the bottom line.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,200 employees and direct operations in 40 countries. In 2008, the company sold products to more than 30,000 companies in 90 countries with a revenue of $821 million. NI has been named to Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 10 consecutive years.

NI DIAdem (ni.com/diadem) is software for managing, analyzing, and reporting data collected during data acquisition and/or generated during simulations. DIAdem is designed to help you make informed decisions and meet the demands of today’s testing environments, which require quick access to large volumes of scattered data, consistent reporting, and data visualization. You can import 3D SolidWorks® CAD models of your test object and assign test data from the sensors on the test object to that 3D model. The result is a CAD-based visualization of the data that changes color or displacement according to the values of the sensor data. DIAdem reads data from any source and maps it to geometry data from SolidWorks CAD along with video, and is able to map and synchronize them together.