Today I have had the pleasure to attend the key not
presentations at the NI Automated Test Summit 2014 held in Reading at Royal
Berkshire Conference Centre on Thursday 19th June 2014.
These are my personal impressions of what I heard.
Attitude
They are a welcoming lot, enthusiastic, engaging, polite and
knowledgeable. They appear proud of their company.
Leadership
They express leadership in how they act and speak of ‘equipping
engineers with tools that accelerate innovation and discovery’.
They are clear in their product leadership and delivery of
graphical software and modular hardware (unrivalled in PXI with greater than
500 products.)
Brendan Davis, author of ‘The Economics of Automatic Testing’
gave an inspiring talk on that subject engaging senior management on how to
promote the need for test and the savings available to explained economically.
NI engaged at the event fully from novice to engineer, to senior engineer, to
management and to director level.
Collaboration
They spoke of collaboration and had over a dozen independent
exhibitors explaining a variety of solutions around NI products.
The spoke of the escalating complexity engineers are facing
and the battle for even lower cost and lower energy consumption.
They spoke of NI’s leading role in 5G development and the
UK/ German research collaboration with Dresden Technical Uni, Kings College and
University of Surrey. (CeBIT 2014)
Of 4 main 5G topics NI explained their collaborations and
leadership further as
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Massive MIMO – Lund Uni Sweden, Texas A&M
University
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Make Denser Networks – High re-use of spectrum
and small cells, NYU Wireless; EU CROWD Project
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mmWave – more frequency spectrum, increase
spectral efficiency – NYU Wireless; EU MiWaves project. Expect a big
demonstrator with an NEM at Mobile World Congress 2015
New Physical Layer – Dresden Tech Uni; EU 5GNOW
Project; German FAST project.
Tom Clark