Your Go-To Source for Innovative Test & Measurement Solutions
Supporting design, validation, and production across life sciences, energy, industrial, and consumer products
NI's automated test and automated measurement systems make breakthroughs possible. From smart healthcare to intelligent industrial systems, test requirements and market trends are constantly changing. NI's systems integrate easily with new technologies and support the latest engineering methods, putting you in a position to innovate faster.
Uncompromising Product Quality
From small systems to large-scale deployments, NI’s reliable hardware and stable measurements help you ship with confidence.
Faster Time-to-Market
By reducing setup time and enabling reuse across programs, NI solutions help teams introduce new products faster and with greater confidence.
Accelerated Innovation
NI’s reconfigurable hardware and software platforms make it easier to iterate early, adapt quickly, and evolve systems as requirements change.
Reduced Cost of Test
NI hardware helps lower total cost of ownership through fast test execution, high system uptime, broad test coverage, and competitive capital cost.
Life Sciences Solutions
Accelerating healthcare innovation with trusted test platforms
Smart healthcare devices are becoming more connected, software-driven, and data-intensive—raising the bar for development and testing. For over 30 years, NI has partnered with MedTech leaders to meet these challenges, delivering trusted measurement and test platforms that scale from R&D to manufacturing.
- Ensure product quality and patient safety
- Reduce development and validation cost
- Accelerate time-to-market for regulated devices
The solutions below represent core test and engineering applications that are common across many medical devices. From implantable devices to imaging systems, these building blocks such as PCBs, batteries, wireless, and electromechanical tests form the foundation of reliable, compliant medical technology.
DAQ For Electromechanical Measurements
Stop Wrestling with Measurements, Start Accelerating Innovation
Medical devices with moving parts, fluids, or sensor-driven control demand more than isolated measurements; they require synchronized insight across electrical, mechanical, and environmental domains. From endurance and life-cycle testing to performance validation and closed-loop control, engineers need reliable data they can trust. NI DAQ helps teams stop wrestling with measurements by unifying sensor acquisition, control, and analysis in a single platform, making it easier to validate real-world behavior, automate stress testing, and scale from development to production with confidence.
Applicable for: surgical drills, hospital and MRI beds, dialysis machines, ventilators, CPAP systems, infusion pumps, catheters, CGMs, pacemakers, hearing assistance devices, and other electromechanical medical equipment.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
PCB Functional Test
Adopt a Modular Approach for PCB Functional Test
A modular approach to PCB functional test gives medical device teams the flexibility to keep pace with evolving designs and production demands. Beyond in-circuit test, engineers must validate power integrity, component operation, and digital and analog communications—often within strict cycle-time and manufacturing constraints. NI’s modular test platforms and automated software workflows enable high-coverage functional testing that can be developed, deployed, and scaled quickly. This approach helps teams maintain consistent quality, adapt to design changes without rework, and accelerate time-to-market from early builds through full-rate production.
Applicable for: pacemakers, ICDs, CGMs, insulin pumps, defibrillators, hearing aids, cochlear implants, neuromodulation and spinal cord stimulation devices, endoscopes, patient monitors, ventilators, CPAP machines, dialysis systems, optical surgery platforms, X-ray scanners, MRI and CT/PET systems, and ultrasound and imaging components.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Battery Test
Evaluate Battery Cell Quality for Medical Devices
When it comes to medical devices, rigorous verification and testing of battery quality and performance is necessary. This involves battery design quality analysis, durability and performance of a battery design across a range of environmental conditions, and manufactured battery quality at the time of assembly.
NI provides a comprehensive battery testing solution that streamlines the testing process, helps ensure quality and reliability, and ultimately improves product quality and minimizes the risk of unexpected field failures.
Applicable for: implantable devices, continuous glucose monitors, hearing aids, patient monitors, ultrasound, infusion pumps, and defibrillators.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Wireless Test
Validate RF Performance for Connected Medical Devices
RF technology is widely implemented across modern medical devices, from high-frequency MRI RF coils to low-power implantable and wearable communications. Engineers must validate signal integrity, coexistence, and reliability—often in complex environments that simulate real-world use, including MRI exposure for implantable devices. NI’s RF test solutions combine modular RF instrumentation with automated software to support accurate characterization, protocol validation, and repeatable compliance testing for the latest standards. This scalable approach enables teams to adapt to evolving wireless standards, streamline validation, and bring connected medical devices to market with confidence.
Applicable for: BLE and WiFi testing, MRI RF coils, implantable medical devices requiring MRI emulation, wireless patient monitors, CGMs, pacemakers, hearing aids, insulin pumps, neurostimulation systems, and other connected medical equipment.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Design & Prototyping
Prototype and Validate Next-Generation Medical Devices
Bringing next-generation medical devices to life requires rapid iteration, deterministic performance, and early validation of complex hardware–software interactions. From high-speed control and real-time signal processing to closed-loop system behavior, engineers need tools that let them move fast without sacrificing rigor. NI’s design and prototyping solutions—built on modular hardware and software-defined platforms with FPGA and real-time capabilities—enable teams to prototype functionality in hardware, validate behavior early, and evolve designs without starting over. This approach helps accelerate development timelines, reduce risk, and create a smoother path from concept to compliant, production-ready systems.
Applicable for: OCT, spectroscopy, surgical robotics, ultrasound platforms, analyzers, high-speed lasers, medical imaging machines.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Industrial Equipment
Enabling scalable test across industrial equipment & electronics
Industrial equipment is becoming smarter, more efficient, and more heavily regulated, raising the bar for development and test. Organizations worldwide trust NI systems to solve their toughest test challenges and deliver high-quality products with minimal downtime. Industrial equipment challenges that NI tools helps you overcome include:
- Tech advances and smart technology integration require faster iteration and real-time monitoring
- Big-name customers are expanding test coverage before integrating into AI/data center environments
- Environmental regulations are driving design changes and R&D costs
- Extreme weather events mean systems need to scale reliably
Across industries, from HVAC to power tools, the below core test and engineering applications form the foundation of modern industrial equipment. Building blocks such as advanced electromechanical test & control, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and automated production/validation testing enable the creation of next-generation, intelligent, and fully compliant systems.
Electromechanical Test and Control
Scalable measurement and control systems for test cell applications
NI empowers you to build intelligent, resilient systems that thrive under extreme conditions and to find, diagnose, and resolve electromechanical issues faster than ever before.
Automate critical processes, scale your test infrastructure seamlessly to meet evolving environmental regulations, and add or reconfigure measurements freely to adapt to any test need with less burden on your resources. With measurement-based control, you reduce unplanned downtime, minimize operational risks, and actively protect your most valuable assets from premature failure.
With a full spectrum of test types, including environmental, structural, thermal, shock and vibration, endurance, power quality, acoustic, and functional software characterization, NI provides the comprehensive, flexible tools you need to ensure product integrity across every critical dimension.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
xCU Embedded Software Test – HIL Testing
Simulate real-world operation conditions to test embedded control systems
In the fast-paced world of embedded software development, your control systems demand flawless performance under real-world pressures. NI's Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test solutions enable you to simulate realistic operating conditions and validate advanced control algorithms before physical prototypes are assembled. By identifying and resolving potential issues early in the cycle, you accelerate innovation while minimizing risks, ensuring your controllers deliver robust, reliable functionality from the outset.
NI HIL enables rigorous testing of different control logics, allowing you to validate smart device functionality as part of CI/CD and to test intricate functionalities without the need for costly hardware builds. This approach not only slashes expenses tied to prototypes and post-deployment fixes but also scales effortlessly to meet evolving demands, transforming potential setbacks into streamlined successes. From emulating control logic and operational models to deploying algorithms on actual embedded hardware, NI provides a comprehensive workflow for unmatched test coverage.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Validation and Production Test Automation
Increase Yield, Reduce Test Time
Optimize your validation and product test operations with a smaller test footprint that maximizes manufacturing floor space through compact, high-performance instruments. Plus, save test time with integrated test management software, which parallelizes execution and dramatically increases throughput. You can integrate test results and data with your manufacturing execution system (MES) to reliably log test data and track product quality.
NI delivers comprehensive, automated electrical circuit validation with an extensive range of quality I/O ranging from instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and DMM, through to RF instruments, all in a compact form factor. Ensure flawless production functional testing by verifying board functionality and performance before final integration, with the flexible, robust tools you need to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
White Goods
Meeting regulations and accelerating innovation with an intelligent, flexible test platform
Modern white goods are no longer just appliances; they are complex, software-driven systems operating under an increasing regulatory microscope. In an era of accelerating innovation and increasingly stringent compliance demands, relying on legacy testing approaches is no longer sustainable. White goods application challenges that NI helps you overcome include:
- Compliance with increasingly stringent quality, safety, and environmental standards
- Tech advances and smart home integration require faster iteration
- Reliability and functionality of IoT and AI in appliances require sophisticated and precise measurement techniques
- Environmental regulations are driving design changes and increasing R&D costs
From dishwashers to refrigerators, the below core test and engineering applications form the foundation of modern white goods. Building blocks such as advanced electromechanical test & control, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and automated production/validation testing enable the creation of next-generation, intelligent, and fully compliant systems.
Electromechanical Test and Control
Scalable measurement and control systems for test cell applications
NI empowers you to build intelligent, resilient systems that thrive under extreme conditions and to find, diagnose, and resolve electromechanical issues faster than ever before.
Automate critical processes, scale your test infrastructure seamlessly to meet evolving environmental regulations, and add or reconfigure measurements freely to adapt to any test need with less burden on your resources. With measurement-based control, you reduce unplanned downtime, minimize operational risks, and actively protect your most valuable assets from premature failure.
With a full spectrum of test types, including environmental, structural, thermal, shock and vibration, endurance, power quality, acoustic, and functional software characterization, NI provides the comprehensive, flexible tools you need to ensure product integrity across every critical dimension.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
xCU Embedded Software Test – HIL Testing
Simulate real-world operation conditions to test embedded control systems
In the fast-paced world of embedded software development, your control systems demand flawless performance under real-world pressures. NI's Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test solutions enable you to simulate realistic operating conditions and validate advanced control algorithms before physical prototypes are assembled. By identifying and resolving potential issues early in the cycle, you accelerate innovation while minimizing risks, ensuring your controllers deliver robust, reliable functionality from the outset.
NI HIL enables rigorous testing of different control logics, allowing you to validate smart device functionality as part of CI/CD and to test intricate functionalities without the need for costly hardware builds. This approach not only slashes expenses tied to prototypes and post-deployment fixes but also scales effortlessly to meet evolving demands, transforming potential setbacks into streamlined successes. From emulating control logic and operational models to deploying algorithms on actual embedded hardware, NI provides a comprehensive workflow for unmatched test coverage.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Validation and Production Test Automation
Increase Yield, Reduce Test Time
Optimize your validation and product test operations with a smaller test footprint that maximizes manufacturing floor space through compact, high-performance instruments. Plus, save test time with integrated test management software, which parallelizes execution and dramatically increases throughput. You can integrate test results and data with your manufacturing execution system (MES) to reliably log test data and track product quality.
NI delivers comprehensive, automated electrical circuit validation with an extensive range of quality I/O ranging from instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and DMM, through to RF instruments, all in a compact form factor. Ensure flawless production functional testing by verifying board functionality and performance before final integration, with the flexible, robust tools you need to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Energy Solutions
Powering the present and future of energy security
The energy industry is undergoing rapid transformation driven by decarbonization, digitalization, distributed energy resources (DERs), and evolving regulations. From oil fields to the grid—and from turbines to fusion reactors—energy systems are becoming more complex, software-defined, and interconnected.
NI provides trusted test, measurement, control, and simulation platforms that help energy companies develop, validate, and operate reliable systems across the entire energy value chain. Our open, scalable platform gives engineers the flexibility to adapt to new requirements while ensuring safety, efficiency, and long-term asset performance.
- Ensure quality and reliability across hundreds or thousands of channels with stable, trusted measurements
- Design for change with adaptable platforms that respond quickly to new technologies and regulations
- Maximize uptime through advanced monitoring, control, and predictive maintenance
- Reduce overall cost with standardized hardware and software that can be reused across applications
The following solution areas highlight how NI supports critical engineering and test challenges across the energy sector. From embedded control and monitoring of field assets to large-scale turbine validation, advanced nuclear research, and next-generation power conversion, these applications help engineers gain the insight, confidence, and flexibility needed to build reliable, efficient, and future-ready energy systems.
Energy Asset Embedded Control and Monitoring
Build Smarter, More Reliable Assets for the Harshest Environments
Oil field and energy service assets must operate reliably in extreme conditions, often far from easy access or rapid repair. Embedded control and monitoring systems need deterministic performance, long-term stability, and flexibility to evolve as requirements change. From pump control and downhole tools to skids and mobile service equipment, engineers must balance uptime, efficiency, and safety while controlling operational costs.
NI’s platform enables the development and automation of custom embedded systems that integrate high-fidelity measurement, real-time control, and health monitoring in a single architecture. By synchronizing data across sensors, actuators, and communication interfaces, teams gain deeper insight into asset performance, enabling predictive maintenance, precise service timing, and reduced unplanned downtime—both in the lab and in the field.
Applicable for: oil field service tools, pump and compressor control, modular assets, condition monitoring systems, mobile test units, and harsh-environment embedded systems.
These solutions can be implemented using NI platforms such as CompactRIO, providing a rugged, modular foundation for reliable control and monitoring in harsh oil and gas environments.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Electric Turbine Testing
Prove Turbine Performance with Confidence—From Prototype to Grid
Modern wind, gas, and steam turbines are complex electromechanical systems that demand comprehensive validation before deployment. Ensuring performance, reliability, and grid compliance requires thousands of synchronized electrical, mechanical, and environmental measurements—often across distributed test setups and long-duration test campaigns.
NI helps turbine manufacturers scale from component-level testing to full system validation by delivering high-channel-count, synchronized data acquisition and analysis across signals. With a unified platform, engineering teams can capture correlated insights, automate test workflows, and generate defensible data to validate turbine behavior from the lab to real-world operating conditions.
Applicable for: wind turbine drivetrains, generators, blades and nacelles, gas and steam turbines, powertrain endurance testing, and grid interconnection validation.
These solutions can be implemented using NI platforms such as CompactDAQ, providing a high-channel-count, modular foundation for electric turbine testing.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Nuclear Research and Exploration
Capture Trusted, Synchronized Data for Advanced Nuclear Innovation
Advancing nuclear energy—across traditional reactors, SMRs, microreactors, and fusion research—depends on executing highly complex experiments under increasing regulatory and technical scrutiny. Researchers require immediate, precise insight into reactor and subsystem performance, often across thousands of distributed signals. Fast data processing, deterministic control, extensive data traceability, and synchronized measurements are essential for evaluating safety, reliability, and experiment success.
NI delivers a high-performance, software-connected platform that enables researchers to collect synchronized, meaningful data across diverse instrumentation and control systems. With support for high channel counts, real-time processing, and integration with research frameworks such as EPICS, NI helps teams capture transient events, maintain comprehensive records, and adapt quickly as experiments evolve. From early-stage research to full-scale testing, NI’s modular approach provides the scalability and flexibility needed to meet emerging requirements while maintaining confidence in data quality and compliance.
Applicable for: reactor instrumentation, SMR and microreactor development, fusion experiments, thermal-hydraulic testing, radiation monitoring, materials research, and nuclear subsystem validation.
These solutions can be implemented using NI platforms such as CompactRIO, providing a rugged, modular foundation that can be tailored to nuclear research and testing needs.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
Power Conversion and Battery Storage
Unified Test for Power Conversion and DER Systems
Testing modern power conversion and energy storage systems is increasingly complex. Engineers developing inverters, converters, and DER controllers are often slowed by fragmented workflows spread across disconnected platforms—one for control logic, another for power-stage validation. These silos create duplicated effort, inconsistent data, and longer debug cycles, increasing the risk of missed defects as designs evolve and grid standards tighten.
NI delivers a software-connected approach that unifies controller and power-stage testing within a single, synchronized platform. By integrating high-speed electrical measurements, deterministic control, and automated test execution, teams can capture transient events, ensure consistent results, and streamline development from early validation through production. With a modular, scalable architecture, engineers can adapt quickly to new designs, accelerate certification to evolving grid and battery safety standards, and deploy reusable test systems that reduce overall cost and time to market.
Applicable for: inverters, converters, energy storage systems, DER controllers, and grid interconnection testing.
These solutions can be implemented using NI platforms such as PXI to provide a high-performance, modular, scalable foundation for unified controller and power-stage testing in power conversion and DER testing.
Built on a modular platform, NI systems can be customized to your application. The products below are example components used to assemble a complete solution.
