1. Oil and Gas

2. "We chose LabVIEW software because it is widely used in technical environments that require data acquisition and instrument control and permits rapid development of high-performance software applications.“- Lajos Horváth - Unitronik Ltd. Using a Low-Cost NI M Series Data Acquisition Device to Acquire Data and Control a Universal Gas Valve System Challenge: Creating an easy-to-use GUI to analyze existing test hardware and software architecture to determine the digital I/O states with timestamps during the testing process, and replace the previous system to enable improved support and test without having to stop production for a significant period of time. Solution: Using NI LabVIEW and an NI PCI-6229 data acquisition (DAQ) board to develop a complete control and measurement system. Products: LabVIEW, PCI-6229 Case Study on ni.com

3. "The Compact FieldPoint platform and LabVIEW programming was an excellent combination to accommodate the different control elements and flexibility required for development.“- Rob Humfeld - Innoventor Developing a Thermochemical System to Convert Manure to Biocrude Oil Challenge: Building and controlling a biomass reactor system that applies heat and pressure to swine manure to break down the waste into hydrocarbon and aqueous components, separate the components for further processing and deployment in a rugged agricultural environment, and incorporate safety controls for continuous 24/7 operation. Solution Designing and building the biomass reactor control system based on an NI Compact FieldPoint target and NI LabVIEW to provide a user interface on a standard PC Products: Compact FieldPoint, LabVIEW, Real-Time Module Case Study on ni.com

4. Deploying NI LabVIEW to Monitor Pipelines at the Ormen Lange in the North Sea Application: Long-term natural gas pipeline monitoring system. Challenge: Developing and installing a long-term monitoring system for a 120 km pipeline off the coast of Norway. Products: NI LabVIEW and NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ADI Blackfin Processors Key Benefit: Low-power, rugged, off-the-shelf hardware deployment platform and a highly reliable system with built-in logging capabilities. “With intuitive LabVIEW graphical programming, this engineer was able to produce more than four to six times the code predicted by this rule of thumb.” – Harald Månum, Bjørge AS

5. Deploying a Managed Pressure Drilling System Based on NI LabVIEW and Compact FieldPoint Application: Implement control algorithms and provide open connectivity to devices on existing drilling platforms. Challenge: Designing a flexible control system so that operators can retrofit existing equipment to achieve managed pressure drilling. Products: Compact FieldPoint, LabVIEW, and LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation and LabVIEW Real-Time modules Key Benefit : Using LabVIEW, system designers implemented the adaptive and flexible control algorithms at the center of the secure drilling system. “This single HMI and logic development environment of LabVIEW makes deployment of the control system simple because the HMI is built in the same environment as the control system.” – Jason Hannam, Impact Drilling

6. Oil and Gas Drilling Wireless Data Acquisition System Application: A system that can automatically connect to any wireless system in range and stream data from it. Challenge: Accessing data in an existing well site application across a wireless network with data collection capabilities of its own that can be combined with information from the wireless systems. Products: NI LabVIEW and Compact FieldPoint Key Benefit : Reduced the amount of lost data due to connections being severed by vehicles traveling over the wires on the ground, providing a more complete data representation of the process. “Using LabVIEW software and Compact FieldPoint hardware, DSA provided its customer with a cost- effective tool that allows a drilling team and engineers to wirelessly collect the data they need.” – Brad Westfall, Data Science Automation

7. Oil Well Fracture Pump Monitoring and Analysis Using NI LabVIEW and RIO Technology Application: A system that monitors the operating parameters of a reciprocating pump used in well servicing applications. Challenge: Building an advanced monitoring system that can survive being mounted directly to an oil well servicing pump in a rugged environment while performing advanced analysis on sensor data. Products: NI CompactRIO, LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real- Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules, and NI Single-Board RIO Key Benefit: The high-speed I/O and analysis catch the momentary pressure spikes and vibration indications of the pumps. “LabVIEW has made the software development side much quicker than our past experiences in C-based programming. What most C programmers take two years to do, we can accomplish in a couple of months. We can use that time savings to get to market quicker and capitalize on our competitors’ lag time.” – Robert Stewart, Supreme Electrical Services Inc.

8. Developing a Safety Monitoring System for Exposed Gas Pipelines Application: A highly reliable system that is not subject to downtime, even in an environment with poor conditions, for monitoring exposed gas pipelines. Challenge: Developing a safety management system to monitor exposed city gas pipelines attached to bridges. Products: cRIO-9103, cRIO-9004, NI 9201 Key Benefit: The reliable safety management secures 24-hour monitoring of exposed pipelines. “We used CompactRIO hardware to install our highly reliable system in environments with poor conditions, such as construction fields or bridges, to continuously monitor and secure the safety of the exposed gas pipelines.” – Sung-Kyung Hong, Research Development Institute, Korea Gas Corporation

9. Using LabVIEW to Automate an Underwater Drilling Mud-Pump Control System Application: An operator interface and supervisory control system for an automated mud-pumping system. Challenge: Developing a human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control system that integrates various control systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), vision systems, and other industrial devices to automate a drilling mud-pump control system during underwater drilling. Products: LabVIEW, Datalogging and Supervisory Control Key Benefit: With the ease of use of the graphical development environment in LabVIEW, we developed a system that quickly met our requirements. "One of the main advantages of LabVIEW was that we could use the same development environment to create the control and HMI applications, which maximized skill reuse between different aspects of the project.“ - Torbjørn Hansen - KYSTDESIGN Sub Sea Technology

10. "By replacing Bently Nevada systems with a vibDaq solution consisting of NI hardware and software, Caterpillar saved more than 30 percent in equipment costs and improved test functionality with four times the number of channels acquired, five times the sampling rate on each channel, and greatly enhanced processing options. “-Daniel Hooks - Cal-Bay Systems Caterpillar Replaces a Proprietary System with a Cal- Bay vibDaq System for a 30 Percent Cost Savings Challenge: Replacing existing Bently Nevada vibration analysis systems in a critical turbine test application with a PC-based solution that offers higher performance and substantially reduces costs. Solution: Using a Cal-Bay Systems vibDaq vibration analysis platform to develop a custom system capable of meeting Caterpillar’s needs for increased channel counts and enhanced data processing. Products: PXI-7833R, LabVIEW, PXI-1042, PXI-4472B Case Study on ni.com