# LabVIEW Reviews **Vendor:** NI **Category:** [Systems Engineering & MBSE Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/systems-engineering-and-mbse) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 192 ## About LabVIEW 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. ## LabVIEW Reviews ### 1. LabVIEW become the de facto standard for engineering system development there established its niche. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex K. | BEEPTOOLKIT - IDE & SOFT CONTROLLER. This is a two-headed dragon , Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2025 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** In my opinion, graphical programming and the G language should become an evolutionary continuation of text-based programming. All the prerequisites for this are in place, and the advancement of LabVIEW is progressing (though not as quickly as one might hope). On the other hand, perhaps that's for the best, as there is less competition. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** 1.This is its cost. 2. Integration limitations in Linux for both the IDE itself and the software products created within it. 3.The cost of NI hardware systems. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my case, thanks to my experience in robotics and automation, as well as the capabilities of LabVIEW, I became the author and developer of my own commercial brand, BEEPTOOLKIT - IDE Soft Controller. ### 2. LabVIEW Powerful Graphical Programming **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin S. | Associate Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is a graphical programming tool with a lot of toolboxes. You need not to cram the syntax for using LabVIEW like in C or C++ etc. LabVIEW will automatically run independent codes in parallel. It is easy to sync Labview with NI hardware and can be used for many applications including IoT, GNSS, etc. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is very expensive and is not backward compatible. That is a program called virtual instrument developed in version 2017 will not run in 2018 or any higher version. It is not compatible in non NI hardware in most of the cases and NI hardware are very costly. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use LabVIEW for programming and teaching subjects like Communication Systems, DSP, etc. I have also used LabVIEW for my research and developed a multi-constellation multifrequency GNSS receiver using LabVIEW ### 3. Mech Engineer HVAC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2023 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Instrument drivers that allow data acquisition access measurement equipment easily. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I dislike the new subscription service model and the restrictions of using the software. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** It produces a very efficient graphical environment for doing logging and control of complex systems. I monitor HVAC equipment and control environmental chambers and associated equipment using LabView. ### 4. Outdated software **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Plug and play with National Instruments compact DAQ **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Not able to use git to save change in no code design **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to plug hardawe and access the data easily ### 5. Great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md S. | Executive Vice President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is very helpfull for real time data analysis. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I didnt find any drawback. Nothing is complexity. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** It deals with good analytical capability to show and help to bring good result. ### 6. Don't bother with LabVIEW **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2023 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Graphical programming very much attuned to visual thinkers. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The new SaS licensing model is terrible. It's akin to ransomware. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing software for ATEs ### 7. Good software for prototyping **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It has a lot of options for integration of different components and it supports also some scripting languages and it has good mathmatical tools and control tools **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The code that is written there is a spaghetti code, really not organized. Also it doesn't have any graphical inerented simulation tool **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of fast prototyping code for new projects and the debugging tools there are ok ### 8. Great to uesd. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cyrus S. | Test engineer., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** To use in monitoring the test value by devices. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** i think labview is very useful in my work. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Labview helped me solve the instrument control solution, allowing me to effectively use and control the correct instrument and read and record data. ### 9. Great software for test and measurement - and more **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andreas K. | self employed software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** With Labview, it is possible to develop software for test and measurement on the fast track. Labview provides common visualization elements and functions for measurement data (such as strip chart recorders), which must be reinvented in other languages. LabVIEW is a graphical programming language. Instead of typing code lines, programming is done by drawing the code, with functions blocks, interconnected. Debugging is possible by literally watching values running in the wires. Though LabVIEW is best for the development of test, measurement and data evaluation software, it is possible to develop software forany purpose. There is a huge community of labview programmer and forums for trouble shooting and example codes. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The deployed executables are relatively big in size (nowadays, no real problem). You cannot simply copy the executable file on a computer, it is required to create a complete installer package that installs the runtime engine of LabVIEW too. The runtime engine is free of cost but also rather big in size. So even small tools may result in huge installer packages, which can take many minutes to install (at the first time). Also, when it comes to max performance (in terms of execution speed and data throughput), Labview has its limitations. (especially for graphical display) **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Labview to develop my commercial test and measurement software product which acquires measurement from various instrument manufacturers. Besides the pure acquisition, it covers all required tasks, from recording, replaying, data presentation, data processing, and report generation. All programmed purely in Labview. ### 10. LabVIEW allows for quick Test Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff D. | Director of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Ability to quickly launch test programs and ability to quickly understand and modify old programs quickly. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Development on LabVIEW seems to have stalled. HSDIO still only supports 32-bit LabVIEW. Integration with Mercurial is rather crude. Really need to simplify the selection of a list of typedefs. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Take time to learn the basics. LabVIEW is an entirely different programming paradigm. You do not use it for text processing. LabVIEW is 100% targeted for Data Acquisition, Instrument Control, capturing results and displaying them. LabVIEWs Analog and Digital graphs are some of the best in the industry. I have yet to find any other applications or libraries which can compare in the graphing realm. LabVIEW is also the simplest multi-processing programming environment out there. There are only a few downsides of LabVIEW such as the extremely large footprint and computing horsepower needed to support it. I strongly advise placing LabVIEW on a dedicated computer without other resource hogging programs such as Microsoft Office products. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to quickly modify test programs with a nice GUI interface for users who cannot handle command-line. Changes are easy to implement. The latest addition of JSON has improved working with other support applications. ### 11. The BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE in the World AND BEST Data Acquisition! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave K. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** You can get help from SUPER SUPER SMART programmers who know EXACTLY how to use LabVIEW. The hardware is superb! **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** They are far away from me and they close early compared to Calif! **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you have to write a distributed EXE for a complex control program using ANY National Instruments AData Acquisition or ANY Comms then you will discover you can release a full 10K Medical approved executable in one TENTH the time as if you had to do it in C++ or anything else. PLUS. their customer service is EXTRAORDINARY. The techs you speak to are EXTRAORDINARY. They KNOW THE PRODUCT. It is AMAZING. I have been using it since 1990 from LV 3.0 in Windows 3.0! Even works on Windows 11! **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I write all my internal engineering data gathering, calibration, and complex math problems with labVIEW ### 12. President **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LaVan N. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** ease of controlling devices and various sensors **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Can not program microprocessors in C++++ **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** quick prototyping of control and sensor systems ### 13. Labview is a very powerful fully comprehensive development environment. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor V. | Director of Factory Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** My favorite feature is that it can develop and deploy any distribution from an installer, web service, .dll, library, anything in a self-contained system, all from one IDE. The visual programming interface helps reduce entry barriers for other engineering disciplines. It is a complete platform for analyzing, debugging, testing, compiling, distributing. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Being so versatile, it is resource-intensive; I'd like to see it offer more slimmed-down deployment versions. So R&D projects can go to full-blown production while remaining in the same development environment. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** As easy as it is to get things off the ground, I recommend looking into other platforms as a product starts becoming productionized. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are developing software applications to run our proprietary pieces of equipment, consisting of an assembly of standard industrial equipment and some internally developed hardware parts. ### 14. LabVIEW Data Acquisition, Control, & Analysis - Best of the Best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruce H. | Director of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW Software Suite is simple to learn and absolutely the best of breed DAQ Hardware/Software platform for laboratory, industrial R&D through Manufacturing available. It has the most extensive set of I/O adapters and communication protocols available for any DAQ, Measurement, or Control Platform. It scales from the lowest level of simple I/O measurement to the fastest & largest system. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Labview is highly customizable, requiring help to set up large complex systems correctly. Flexibility is an advantage for the experienced user, but the new user should get help configuring their first system. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize development level LabView to create portable measurement systems for any measurement need. We can scale from one device to hundreds quickly with the large variety of National Instrument's Labview-compatible I/O systems. ### 15. LabView User: excellent tool for instrument communication **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad A. | Senior Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I use LabView mostly to communicate with other instruments ( Oscope, function generator etc.)I think LabView is very intuitive and easy to use. The NiMax is also very helpful. The debug mode is very excellent to use as well. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The workspace can become very confusing at times. When you have to many blocks it is sometimes hard to realize which block is doing what. Also would be helpful if there was a pseudo code generator to see the logic in your code. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly use LabView for instrument automation. It is an excellent tool for that purpose. I also developed it to control an optical imaging system for device testing. Very easy to use and develop. Also quite easy to generate UI. ### 16. LabVIEW automates tasks that I hate doing by hand! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane Z. | Power Technology and Qualification Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview is a well-thought-out graphical coding language that makes interfacing with electrical lab equipment a breeze. It's easily transferrable between machines and runs quickly and efficiently, even on old machines. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Gathering drivers for old equipment can sometimes be a pain as they are hard to come by. Also, running loops in parallel will slow down the machine and even just editing the code by a ton. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you need to interface with laboratory equipment and/or gather data, this is the industry-standard tool. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a test engineer, I spend a lot of time setting up equipment to run the specific tests that I need. After writing some simple LabVIEW code, the process is now instantaneous and even completely automated in some situations. ### 17. Very Robust - User Support for Beginners is only opportunity for improvement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefan S. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I have found nothing that the platform cannot handle. The wide array of DAQ options available, make connecting any sensor possible. I look forward to exploring additional capabilities as well in future projects. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I think it may be somewhat unavoidable, but as a beginner, I found the help resources quite challenging to navigate due to a lack of references to core principles, i.e. deeper explanations for data types, one-on-one support, etc. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving a very wide variety of problems with LabVIEW from torque measurement to VFD control, to a speed -> torque PID, to tachometers. We have found it very beneficial to have all of these subsystems feed into the same platform with minimal intermediate steps. ### 18. Great RAD environment especially for scientific use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW allows us to create applications for measurement and automation tasks relatively easily as well as use all the in-depth features for specific programming tasks, larger applications. And still LabVIEW is an environment that is easy enough to understand and learn for beginners and other people in our company that don't write code on a daily basis but only support our development team from time to time. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is very suitable for a quick start in development—especially tasks where you don't have much time to implement a neat-looking GUI. But for more complex UI designs, LabVIEW would not be my first choice at the moment. Primarily that's due to the lack of tools assisting such UI creations. If you have to use dynamically sized elements, want to create re-scaling UIs or automatically align elements in Grid/Table layouts, etc. - all that stuff is hard to do in LabVIEW at the moment. Also, the requirement of the large LabVIEW Runtime installation is sometimes hard to communicate to customers. Even a small tool for parsing some files - which you could do in a few kilobytes in other Languages requires our customer to have the full LabVIEW Runtime installed for a couple of hundred megabytes. A way to strip down the components inside the Runtime installation (e.g., purposely keep out the components mathematics, database-stuff, plotting, and other libraries if the application does not explicitly require them), when you create an Installer package through the application builder would be great. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mostly implement applications that act as the main user interface for our measurement devices. The LabVIEW applications are implementing the communication with the hardware, control, and data analysis algorithms and other functions to import or export measurement data for further use. ### 19. Development is slowwer than C/C++ and tools are buggy **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brooke W. | Contractor/Principle Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Not much. It seems simple on the surface and looks like it has a lot of built-in libraries. Still, we had to purchase additional licenses, and many of the built-in components were confusing and difficult to use correctly. I thought the UI concept would protect against common errors such as memory leaks, but I created one anyway. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Writing code using icons and connections is very time-consuming, and one must learn both the GUI development tool and the library of icons/language. The GUI development tool is buggy, and you are constantly re-arranging icons to keep the code readable. Traditional tools such as version control are not present. You can not share and view the code for review w/o a License. There is a printing option, but the results are impossible to read. If-then and case statements are concealed, only one case may be viewed at a time. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Weigh the supporting libraries provided with the extra development time consumed using a GUI and Icons and the learning curve, if not already. It may seem like it's easier at first, but trust me, there is a world of difference between editing a simple text file (and all the available tools) with dragging icons, connecting wires, and trying to understand how each icon behaves. Also, consider how you plan to test the result. It's impossible to write any meaningful tests. Labview does generate a GUI front-end for every code module (even if you don't want it), so if your looking for that is can be a time saver. Otherwise, a simple C library would have been much more productive. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are developing critical safety-compliant software for a device with a lot of IO. The assumption is that the executable produced is free from defects and reliable. ### 20. LabVIEW in 2022 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher N. | Embedded Systems Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW lets me efficiently prototype DSP algorithms. However, for production code, I've started to lean on scipy and numpy since it doesn't have the license encumbrance. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The difficulty with LabVIEW has always been the cost and licensing encumbrance. I just received notification that NI is moving to a subscription model for LabVIEW and will no longer be offering perpetual licenses, which is disappointing. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prototyping DSP algorithms such as FIR filtering. Allows me to demonstrate functionality to management before re-implementing in Python. I no longer use LabVIEW in production due to the cost, so it has become more of an R&D tool in my workflow. NI moving to subscription instead of perpetual license is a new downside. ### 21. Great readability with seamless connection between control, data acquisition and data processing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 光政 . | Independent assistant professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Usually, data acquisition unit needs careful programming for scanning interval, recording frequency, etc. However, LabVIEW's powerful DAQ assistant function treats these annoying issues without writing a dedicated program by users. All I need to set is the measurement interval and which unit I want to use. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I am always annoyed with version issues of LabVIEW software, DAQ driver, real-time OS, etc., when I update systems or add hardware products. In most cases, I have to manage versions with my excel sheet or handwritten memos. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you use LabVIEW software without any actual hardware device, you will not fully experience LabVIEW's incredibility. But if you are currently annoyed with signal I/O, motor drive or realtime processing, LabVIEW will give you the most fantastic experience you've ever had! **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am controlling the wave generating system in a large water basin in a university. The most important benefit is its readability owing to the clear and well-sorted block diagram. ### 22. Great "programming language" for the graphically minded research person. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyle F. | Research Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I am a person that would rather connect GUI pictures with wires that write a lot of type-written code. I am a graphically oriented person with a BSEE degree. LabView is the perfect language for me and the way my brain functions. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** LabView can be a little cumbersome for some extremely fast data collection or processing. The inherent nature of being a graphically-oriented language can make the execution slow for some applications. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** LabView is a graphical programming language that does not require the strict syntax that a lot of other line-edited programming languages require. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am in charge of a very complex research laboratory. We have to interface many items from sample manipulation to data collection, and all of the different inputs are from various equipment from different vendors. LabView is the easiest way that I have found to interface a lot of equipment together on one computer. For example, I have an experiment running under LabView, interfaced with 17 virtual COM ports. Everything runs very well. ### 23. Test Automation Must Have **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** A lot of automated testing requires knowledge of the device being tested which means the background of the person writing the code may not have a background in software development. LabVIEW is a great tool to learn that doesn't require that background but can be utilized by domain experts. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The runtime size makes distribution difficult and I wish I could do more personal application development through the web. It's just lacking some fringe toolkits like a good PDF creation toolkit. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We completely automate our lab operation and test sequencing using LabVIEW. We also use it to automate calibration machines on factory lines. The automated testing has resulted in a significant increase in test cell productivity as well as running tests consistently across multiple lab locations. Now one technician can be operating multiple test cells at one time and just remotely monitoring them. ### 24. Software and Hardware Simulator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The main advantage of Labview is that it is a paraller processing like multiple tasks are done at a time. It is FPGA-based programming where you can do from the Verilog language. The output in the graph is straightly visible, and no need to alter things as they are already in the required format. The main advantage of Labview is that it supports different platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac OS. It is the open development software, and various software is integrated. Its library helps the user to use it easily. Somebody can easily use High-level graphics in it for designing or simulating. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The biggest disadvantge what i found is software needs more space to get installed. And generic ARM no port is avaliable, which needs to be watched out. If i need to insert a numerical data from SQL database to Labview database its hard or i can say there is no database communication here in this part.Remote client application needs to be developed, which is lagging. Connecting andriod devices and developing or testing the application is very difficult task. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main reason why I use the Labview is that I simulate the signals to check their behavior and get the results of it. I have installed the temperature measurement using the Labview, and also we can control things automatically by using Labview. Parallel execution helps us to save time. Efficiency and accuracy of the output I am getting more in the Labview compared to the analog method. ### 25. Labview it is an amazing tool. It has a lot of tools and can help you to develop wherever you want **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gustavo d. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The facility to acess all the functions just by clicking the righ button, you can access all the tools and make any search to help you to find out what you want **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The software it is a little heavy to install and to run. You will need a very good computer so you can run the software and run the applications you just created **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am making equipment to control and monitor the samples we put under the tests. Before Labview, we had to do this manually without any history. With Labview and cRIO, we could solve all of our problems ### 26. Easy to use - Process Automation Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lloyd Arsen B. | Senior Process Performance Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabView helps us automate our plant, even for engineers with very little coding expertise. It uses graphical interfaces enabling people to visualize the program flow being written easily. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Troubleshooting sometimes can get messy! An easier interfacing process to outside sources (like an OPC server) would be ideal. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use LabView to create an in-house High-Level Control system that helps automate the operation of our equipment - similar to an airplane autopilot. We can optimize our processes and provide the operator with an assistant. The program continuously monitors the system and is designed to react to any situation appropriately. ### 27. Best visual coding for the widest range of applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catalin P. | Staff Senior EE, power and analog, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The best aspect is the visual coding experience. I am a visual person, so for me it makes a big difference to be able to "read" the code at a glance. The structure is simple, and the organization tools makes code readable. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Some details in how DAQmx functions work with certain hardware are not always explained well. There are still bugs/incompatibilities when using Thunderbolt connection with PXI controllers. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am mostly solving data acquisition and measurement/testing problems in HW testing environment (R&D, validation, IQC for production). I overcome challenges easily by reusing code and structuring code for scalability. ### 28. For me LabVIEW has a very strong support base. It covers very vast area of industrial area. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rahul g. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW covers vast area of application like Automobile, Semiconductor, Aviation, RF Communication and many more. It has a strong base of support team and experts in each field. So as a developer it helps me a lot to execute my projects reliably using LabVIEW tools. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW should cover areas like ADAS, Vision based solutions, ECU testing etc. To be true there's not much that i dislike about LabVIEW. The only thing i feel is that they should increase there area of application even further so that i as a application developer cover more projects. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm working Automobile sector as a application developer for EOL TestBenches, Endurance Test Benches etc. So i help my team in Testing there products and also contribute towards Product manufacturing. LabVIEW helps me with the application development for my projects. Due to its user friendly API's my work becomes easier and i can meet the requirment easily. Also NI Hardware with its precision helps me alot for measurement. ### 29. Best comfortable and simply usable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio D. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The user-friendly interface provides beginner users with a step-by-step guide to quickly develop and execute fast applications and assemble testing tools in a very short time. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The incompatibility with the previous release is necessary, and for this reason, adequate hardware on the PC is needed. It will be helpful to perform maintenance on old applications developed on old PCs. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I create test benches for some applications to test the final products coming out of production, in the process phase known as end of line (EOL) testing, to ensure the reliability of the final product. ### 30. Ideal for prototyping **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Liesbeth v. | founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW, in combination with the NI DAQ devices, allows you to quickly create the hardware and software that will enable you to perform your specific measurements. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The documentation could be more rigorous. Sometimes you need to try some software components to understand what it does. The cleanup tool that repositions all components does not function optimally. You may spend quite some time making your code readable. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm prototyping a measuring device with LabVIEW. This way, I can create a functional device without spending much time producing basic hardware and software. ### 31. Use good tools so that you can focus on your application specific development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan G. | Principal Firmware Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Many features save you time in development: FPGA, maps, off the shelf hardware **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. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** LabVIEW is in our flow cytometer which is used for biological research. Think "curing cancer" and other diseases. ### 32. Developing since 4 years ago. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex C. | Functional test Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **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 **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. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop software to test electronic boards. and I prefer to use labview when I need to manage a lot of arrays. Becouse Labview help me to see all the arrays at the time they are been created. ### 33. Best tool for creating quick & reliable test **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **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. **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. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prototyping hardware and realizing component testing is really quick. Creating test sequences and interfaces with test equipment of all sorts is very easy. NI hardware is always easy to integrate and work with, manuals are very well documenting features. ### 34. Multiple equipment management with lab view **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthikeyan B. | Graduate Research Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2017 **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 **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. **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. **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 ### 35. LabVIEW Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **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. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Its license cost is very huge. Its runtime engine and drivers required more space in Harddisk. **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. **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. ### 36. awesome when it comes to data acquisition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 37. LabVIEW Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel A. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like the ease of use, as well as a community that is responsive to issues. **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. **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. **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. ### 38. LabVIEW and Its vast uses **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **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 **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. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solve all sorts of issues within our lab environment using LabVIEW. Why is this component acting this way? Why did the machine not work exactly like planned? Labview helps use solve these ### 39. LabVIEW - perfect for all our atomic layer deposition needs! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nina C. | Research Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **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. **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. **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. ### 40. Labview: A great system to save on total development costs. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **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. **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. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily develop microfluidics process automation. We've seen a significant time-savings benefit with Labview compared to other development frameworks when time-to-market is critical. ### 41. I use Labview to interact with modules over CAN bus. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean L. | Electronic Technician, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The ability to connect to different devices as long as they have a connection available. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** When I need a task that require more complex control, I get lost easily. I still need to study. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Until now, mainly control over CAN bus to monitor or control devices. Sometimes I build tests bench for validation. ### 42. LabVIEW was easy to learn and intuitive to use. The UI is very user friendly and provides good tips. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW contains all the drivers necessary to start my project off. All resources are located in a similar space that enable me to find and use easily. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** So far I have not much to say about the downsides. The only difficulty I faced so far was the lack of training included with the professional license. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Spend time researching the software and relevant hardware before choosing your options. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked on automating our PCA test equipment to enable a faster and efficient way of electronically testing our PCAs. A higher production rate was realised. ### 43. We use it daily. Handy product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ao L. | Deputy Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** How many products would support LabView and how easy it is to get community support on various stuff. We purcahsed so many equipment in 2021 and used Labview to control them. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Actually the pricing would be the only thing we didn't really like about LabView. If it could be made significantly less expensive more users will be abel to enjoy it. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are doing some data analysis and acquisition using Labview. We connect stuff directly to NI boards and read data from Labview. Also we try to control motors with Labviuew. ### 44. Endless engineering opportunities though tough to get started with no previous experience. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like the breadth of options that Labview has to offer to form an application. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There are too many ways and paths to develop an application. If you are a casual user and not entrenched in the NI community, it can be challenging to decipher the best way to solve a problem. However, the support engineers are available and eager to help! **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** LV a great tool for solving laboratory measurement and observational problems. Utilize the support and plan on becoming a subject matter expert to get the most out of the purchase. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving a high temperature observational test method that will hopefully lead to automated analysis in the future. I have realized the integration and support from the 3rd parties that NI works with is excellent - Graftek has been working with us through the development process. ### 45. LabVIEW user for HIL platforms for over 5 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Fairly intuitive, a large support community, easily scalable software. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The lack of a zoom feature in the regular Labview platform. I think it is included in NGX, but I don't see that platform used as much. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** It is a great product if it fits your application. It excels at industrial use. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it to create HIL test benches. Also used in the past for production test benches combined with NI Veristand and Teststand for a complete automated system. ### 46. It works **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I can collect data from my test system. I can perform calculations within the program and display the calculations and data manipulation on a screen. I can print my data to a CSV file. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Getting help from support has proven to be very difficult. The software has issues sometimes. It is quite the learning curve to be able to use the software. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** It costs a lot but all the components work quite well together. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collecting real-time data for thermal systems. ### 47. Labview for spectroscopy measurements **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is a user-friendly software that allows data acquisition of complex instruments easily. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** It's expensive. I wish there were an annual licence of professional LabVIEW as it is for the base one. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am recording spectra of organics molecules seeded in a supersonic expansion. I use Labview to control the laser, the oscilloscope, and the wavemeter. My Labview program allows me a synchronized data acquisition where the absorption is recorded in real-time with the wavelength. ### 48. LabView for Quality Analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua J. | Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like that the LabView software is easy to use once a program is created and can be set up for countless applications **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Backwards compatibility with programs created in the past is poor. I had to download an old version to get my program to work **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I specifically use LabView as a controller and data collector for pressure analysis. Constant pressure increase until failure is reached. ### 49. Control, data collection, visualization, and evaluation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ladislau A. | Prozessingenieur, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** For industrial automation and to meet the challenges posed by digitalization, there is no comparable tool. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Through the super simple and fully intuitive programming options, even automators with little programming knowledge can develop complex applications. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** The best there is **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Operational data collection and analysis of the data. Control and visualize PLCs on a comfortable platform. Logistics solutions for Kanban and tugger train systems. ### 50. Easy and versatile **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kazuhiko K. | Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Simple way to program. Many ready-to-use examples, especially for the DAQ devices from NI. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Sometimes, the LabView program shows the conflict with Windows system program, such as USB driver interruption. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Actually, I cannot think of any other product comparing with LabView. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for academic research purpose. 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