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NI technology strengthens unique vessel positioning system

Averna leveraged LabVIEW RT, FPGA, and LabWindows CVI deployed on NI PXI and NI CompactRIO controllers to create the Vessel Self-Spotting System (VSSS), the first of its kind in the world to be driven by NI technology. The system resolves technical challenges related to real-time motion control, 3-D image processing, multiple industrial Ethernet protocols, and rugged outdoor conditions.

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Averna develops C# solution for breakthrough in hearing technology

Challenge
Averna collaborated with a hearing healthcare leader to rewrite its signature test software in C# programming, and to create multi-language user interfaces to facilitate worldwide deployment.

Innovative BTE solution optimizes testing for train car data relay systems

Challenge
The client won a contract to provide key components for a subway car project. They needed a solution to perform functional testing and real-time monitoring of MDL subsystems through the different stages of engineering and production, prior to customer delivery. This required a mission-critical, compact BTE (bench test equipment) solution that could run on multiple UUTs (units under test) in parallel, testing the programming shelf as a whole or the individual circuit cards composing the shelf. The solution had to be flexible, easy to use for all crew and maintenance personnel, and fully integrated with the Proligent™ test engineering platform by Averna. The client required a solution that was high-performing, mobile, and offered superior capabilities at a low cost. They were looking for a test engineering provider that could ensure full integration with existing systems and that could guarantee consistently shortened time-to-quality.

A real-time solution to control the Canadian National Railways classification process

Challenge
Canadian National Railways needed to upgrade the process control system for its hump yard operations. The redundant and mission-critical control system required a highly reliable and off-the-shelf solution for signal conditioning, real-time data acquisition, and signal generation, while interfacing with existing process sensors and control infrastructure. Advanced and evolved hardware met the conditioning requirements of a system that involved thousands of field signals with varied acquisition. Its replacement with a modular, off-the-shelf product demanded a very flexible technology.

Novel automating software for design validation laboratory
using LabVIEW and FieldPoint

Challenge
To integrate the design validation laboratory of an automotive lamp manufacturing facility while managing several test devices, including environment chambers, power supplies, and special purpose current switches. To create an automated test environment in accordance with validation testing processes, that could deal with a large variety of test plans and multiple distributed test locations. To provide access to test data for report generation and statistical process control.

Using PXI and LabVIEW for RF synthesizer ATE

Challenge
To create automated test equipment capable of monitoring 24 RF synthesizers (from 6 to 38 GHz) under thermal cycling for a very short-lived phase with amplitude anomalies. To perform continuous real-time signal analysis and data logging on 24 channels at 250 kHz.

Upgrading a manufacturing test station using LabVIEW and PXI

Challenge
To upgrade three manufacturing test stations for a leading avionics firm, ensuring that the collaborative engagement confirms the project’s direction and progress measured against client success metrics, while maintaining the high-accuracy requirements of various manufacturer-specified functionality tests.

Virtual instrumentation increases test productivity by 600%

Challenge
To increase throughput and quality by providing the flexible and reliable automation of an auxiliary power unit (APU) test facility in an industrial and disciplined aerospace engineering environment, while ensuring a high rate of investment return.

Production management and quality-testing system manages distributed
manufacturing of telecommunication boards

Challenge
To implement a distributed production control, quality-testing system with full automation that could manage a range of new products assembled and tested at different CM sites.

Automating design validation testing of advanced VoIP access devices and gateways

Challenge
In order to download the embedded firmware to the unit under test (UUT), a test station with design validation capabilities is required. The test station must manage a complex scenario of product configurations, network manageability issues, and communication protocols to ensure quality functional performance for a large mix of product specifications.

NI LabVIEW RT and FPGA technology speeds up automotive seat testing

Challenge
To create a system controlling the force applied to an automotive seat with a PID loop rate of 10 kHz. The system is used in the design verification testing of automotive seat controllers. The system controls a motor in torque mode to apply a load to a seat. The amount of load applied is based on position, and simulates anything from an empty seat to a large individual pushing against the firewall to impede seat movement.

Real-time, mission-critical control and acquisition of a high channel count distributed and networked system

Challenge
To implement a distributed and mission-critical data acquisition and supervisory control system featuring thousands of transducers, actuators, and third-party data loggers. To integrate them with secure system access, configurable data logging, data extraction, and display features, all in a short delivery time.

Distributed OEM/CM testing process for optical amplifiers

Challenge
To improve the economics of long-haul optical networking. To help network operators reduce their network capital and operational expenses by replacing conventional optical amplifiers with a new generation of optical amplifiers.

Hardware-in-the-loop made easy by NI-PXI and LabVIEW RT

Challenge
To create a hardware-in-the-loop platform with a deterministic loop rate of 1000 iterations per second, managing a high count of hundreds of I/Os, scalable to 2000 channels without performance deterioration. This platform had to integrate more than 10 nodes of running device models in real-time, sharing simulation and I/O data with a timing jitter of ten millionths of a second. The solution had to be achieved within a strict delivery schedule, and had to be cost-effective.

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