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LabVIEW Reviews & Product Details

LabVIEW is systems engineering software for applications that require test, measurement, and control with rapid access to hardware and data insights. The LabVIEW programming environment simplifies hardware integration for engineering applications so that you have a consistent way to acquire data from NI and third-party hardware. LabVIEW reduces the complexity of programming, so you can focus on your unique engineering problem. LabVIEW enables you to immediately visualize results with built-in, drag-and-drop engineering user interface creation and integrated data viewers. To turn your acquired data into real business results, you can develop algorithms for data analysis and advanced control with included math and signal processing IP or reuse your own libraries from a variety of tools. To ensure compatibility with other engineering tools, LabVIEW can interoperate with, and reuse libraries from, other software and open-source languages.

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German, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified)

Overview by

David Prida (Product Marketing Engineer @ NI)

Pricing

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LabVIEW Base

$493.00

Per Year

LabVIEW Full

$1,664.00

Per Year

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LabVIEW Media

LabVIEW Demo - Reduce System Setup Time by Connecting to Virtually Any Hardware

LabVIEW gives you the ability to acquire data from thousands of third-party benchtop and modular instruments over any bus—such as USB, Ethernet, serial, and GPIB—with a library of instrument drivers that typically include APIs, example programs, and documentation.

LabVIEW Demo - Quickly Visualize Test Outcomes with LabVIEW

You can create custom user interfaces with a comprehensive collection of drag-and-drop objects specifically built for engineering applications. And then integrate the test outcomes from all your instruments into one view to make your decisions faster.

LabVIEW Demo - Get Instant Insights From Measurement Data with LabVIEW

With LabVIEW, you can turn your raw data into measurement insights by using 1,000+ built-in, drag-and-drop analysis functions or reusing your existing code such as C/C++/C#.

LabVIEW Demo - Intuitive Graphical Programming in LabVIEW

LabVIEW offers a graphical programming approach that helps you visualize every aspect of your application, including hardware configuration, measurement data, and debugging. This visualization makes it simple to integrate measurement hardware from any vendor, represent complex logic on the diagra...

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Ivan G.

Principal Firmware Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/25/2022

"Use good tools so that you can focus on your application specific development"

5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

Many features save you time in development: FPGA, maps, off the shelf hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

Very expensive in OEM situations. I needed help debugging a linux issue and it was very difficult to do that and poorly supported from R&D. UI is too tightly coupled to code. Supply chain issues with sbRIOs has been a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex C.

Functional test Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2022

"Developing since 4 years ago."

5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

It is very easy to develop a full program from scratch. And it is very simple to debug a program in case there are some errors.

Labview has a lot of tools that allows to compile and release a software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

If you have no idea of how Labview works, sometimes it is a little complicated to understand the program flow.

The weakest point is the cost of the license. The cost is to high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2022

"Best tool for creating quick & reliable test"

4/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

Relatively low entry to software creation and a lot of fool proof items allowing execution without worrying to much; easy debugging; a lot of ready interface drivers for equipment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

As easy to program, as easy to make mistakes and "dirty" code not suitable for rework and maintenance; block diagram can be hard to read in large applications; execution speed for time critical applications is not on top with lower level languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karthikeyan B.

Graduate Research Assistant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/14/2017

"Multiple equipment management with lab view"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

Lab View can be connected with multiple device and can control all of them at once. This feature along with visual basic based back panel for coding the experiment is the best of Lab view. This feature allows any one with minimal knowledge of lab view to customize and run his or her own experiments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

There is nothing that is to dislike with lab view, their search and explore help in identifying the right command for right experiment. Lab view also updates their software often and is in process of improving all the features that will make it look more pleasant more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:

Lab View is highly recommended to any researcher who need to have high combustibility in their recording and data acquiring process. This software can communicate to various equipment using GPIB cable or RS232 Cable and hence your data collection will be precise and easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main business problem with research lab is the cost of equipment, Some of the equipment can be easily customized to get the required data output but using them at single run is not compatible without the use of specialized software. Lab view comes to our rescue. With lab view we can acquire data from multiple devices and record them in our database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/16/2021

"LabVIEW Experience"

5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

It will be a straightforward graphical programming language. It has very big community support groups.

LabVIEW Has examples models which help users to understand the concept about programming. LabVIEW has variour architectures to develop our applicaiton.

It provides parallel loop execution. so we can execute the many task simulatanesouly at the same time with different execution rate.

LabVIEW's user interface module is user frendly. we can easily design the use friendly in simple drag and drop method. In some text based programming, we need to write plenty of codes to design theuse interface and positions.

Recent past, LabVIEW is supporting machine learning modules also. so experienced engineers dont want to learn the new programming language, they can easily use AI or Machine learning in LabVIEW also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

Its license cost is very huge. Its runtime engine and drivers required more space in Harddisk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:

If you want to develop the machine automation sequence, we can use LabVIEW. It has many in-built libraries.

It has enormous communities and forums. It has many global users so we can easily get the support from them for any issues.

the growing technology is AI and ML and IIOT. LabVIEW support AI, ML and IIOT as well. So we can use one programming language for all our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?

I developed various machines to test the new product, and it has many inbuilt libraries. So it is straightforward to program and very clear to understand the developed program developed by other developers.

Recently, I developed Centralized monitoring system using LabVIEW. LabVIEW supports Modbus communication. So I connected all PLCs in Modbus Connetions and collected the data from PLCs and moved the SQL Database. LabVIEW has a WEB publising tool. So I easily Published the Front panel in Website. So other stake holders can easily view the publised front panels in their PC. By implementing the above method, I saved around 20 K$ by reducing the machine breakdown time and improved the MTTR also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Electronics

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/15/2021

"awesome when it comes to data acquisition"

5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

Easy to use, pretty powerful. You can develop an application in a matter of hours. Very stable and robust. A lot of support online, a lot of courses as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

do I need to say it? Really? Price is insanely high. NI is out of its mind when it comes to price either their software as well as the NI module hardwares. You have to be willing to break the bank to be able to get their stuff. it is not rare to spend 10k plus dollars in a very modest and simple NI hardware-software configuration.

Their certifications are a ripoff. You have to renew them every couple of years (it comes with a fee). Test certifications are intentionally made to not let you finish on time, making you fail several times before getting approve so you have to pay the fee over and over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:

Prepare the bank if you are planning to use this platform. I think they offer an student version which can be used to learn it first before investing in their stock lol. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used them quite a bit, mainly for data acquisition systems. A couple of times for control systems as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joel A.

Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/5/2021

"LabVIEW Review"

4/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

I like the ease of use, as well as a community that is responsive to issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

Some things do not have quick solutions and it takes time to figure out what is wrong. The error handling does not help too much in some of these situations, as the errors give a number that is difficult to look up online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:

This is a great tool, but you will need buy in from your team. This is a great software, but it takes some time of getting used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am not really having any problems with LabVIEW, but one of the big benefits I am seeing is compatibility with a variety of different companies, which is a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/18/2022

"LabVIEW and Its vast uses"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

We use LabVEW everywhere in our lab environment. It is beneficial when collecting data in real-time and exporting everything to excel. I have not run into a device that I could not use Labview to control and or manipulate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

The least helpful thing about LabVIEW would be learning all its little quirks. Sometimes a specific install file needs to be in a precise location to get the addons working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nina C.

Research Assistant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/20/2021

"LabVIEW - perfect for all our atomic layer deposition needs!"

5/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

LabVIEW allows for proper customization of the software in a way that makes it useful for our deposition process. We are in the business of making thin films and LabVIEW gives us remote control of the inner process in a very quick and intuitive manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

Sometimes the software does have a communication issue with the computer in the middle of our process. Some valves may not properly open/close or some stay open. I believe this occurs mainly after a power outage sometimes, but not always. This can be tricky for some of our processes and gives some distrust in the software, but 9.5/10 it will work exactly as expected and I am always around to monitor the pulses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atomic layer deposition is a cyclic process with 2 precursor pulses and 2 purge times per cycle. Opening and closing valves manually with set times in between can be incredibly tedious and not advisable. LabVIEW solves this problem by being incredibly user friendly and takes the manual aspect of it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Biotechnology

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2022

"Labview: A great system to save on total development costs."

4/5

What do you like best about LabVIEW?

Labview is flexible, easy to use, and cost-effective; (after the initial sunk investment). Since the programming interface is visual, transfering work to other engineers and conveying design intent is more quickly accomplished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LabVIEW?

I'm not a big fan of National Instrument's push to a software subscription model. If I could have my wishes, I would hope that National Instrument's business model would allow for a bit more openness on the hardware side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.