LabVIEW Champions Directory
Member Profile - Jeffrey Habets
Jeffrey Habets
Home:
Weert, The Netherlands
Programming Languages:
LabVIEW (and a long time ago: PHP, C, C++, C#, Pascal, Assembler)
Certification:
CLA (2005), CPI (2012), CTA (2015)
Used LabVIEW Since:
Version 4.0 (1997)
Applications Areas:
Automated test systems based on LabVIEW and/or TestStand
Machine control and monitoring
R&D Automation
Data-acquisition systems
Distributed measuring and control systems
Biography:
I hold a Bachelors degree in Technical Computer Science and came in first contact with LabVIEW during my graduation assignment in 1997. Before that I did a lot of programming in C, mainly aimed at the OS/2 operating system. I even released a couple of free- and shareware programs for OS/2 back in those days.
In the first week or so of my graduation assignment I was a little bit skeptical about LabVIEW ("I can do this quicker/better/faster in C..."), then after coding my first while loop with a lot of cases, each connected to a boolean button terminal(!), it appeared to me that this was probably not the way it was ment to be. I browsed through some course material, started over again with state-machines and saw the (dataflow-)light. It went all uphill from there. 🙂
After graduation I started working as a project engineer at an engineering firm where I worked on a multitude of LabVIEW projects and still did some C (NT kernel level driver and embedded (uC) Linux) along the way too. After 8 years or so the LabVIEW 'department' still hadn't grown a lot (it was me and one other engineer) and it appeared to me there was not a lot perspective that this was going to change anytime soon. I was pretty convinced though, that there where a lot more interesting LabVIEW projects to take on out there. That's when I decided to start my own engineering firm, completely aimed at delivering solutions based on LabVIEW.
I founded VI Technologies on Januari 1, 2007, starting as a one-man shop and quickly had to much work to keep on doing it on my own. Now (2020), we are a team of 16 enthusiastic engineers all focused on delivering LabVIEW and TestStand based solutions. VI Technologies is a National Instruments Silver Alliance Partner.
I've picked up Object Oriented programming in LabVIEW (GOOP) a long time ago back when the first incarnation of the GOOP Wizard saw the light of day. After that using the GOOP Inheritance Toolkit and now the excellent Goop Development Suite (OpenGDS), in my opinion a must when doing OO in LabVIEW. For NXG we are developing our own UML Class Editor Add-on which fully integrates with the LabVIEW NXG development environment.
User Groups:
The Dutch LabVIEW User Group (#DutLUG)
Discussion Groups:
NI Forums
Websites:
Articles / Presentations:
- NIWeek 2018 Presentation: Bringing Down the Barrier: A Pragmatic View of Software Design: Bringing Down the Barrier: A Pragmatic View of Software Design.pdf
- NIDays 2015 Benelux Presentation: Take your LabVIEW development efficiency to the next level, the VITech way!
- Advanced LabVIEW User Group Meeting - Copenhagen 2014 Presentation: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Network Streams
- NIWeek 2012 and NIDays 2012 Netherlands and Belgium Presentation: Coordinating Distributed Energy Resources to Create a Supplemental Reserve Power Grid - Distributed ...
- NIDays 2011 Netherlands and Belgium Presentation: Testing high-power hydraulic pumps with NI LabVIEW and the StateChart module
- NIDays 2010 Netherlands and Belgium Presentation: Tips & tricks to enhance your LabVIEW development experience
- Dutch LabVIEW User Group Meeting presentation (24 november 2009): The Ins and Outs of XControls
- NIDays 2009 presentation: The Exploding While Loop Part III - Object-Oriented Software Architecture and Design Patterns
- NIWeek 2008 presentation: Automated scoring of novel object recognition in rats
- LabVIEW Day 2008 in Brussels presentation: LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming, Concepts, Use Cases and Best Practices
- NIDays 2007 presentation: GOOP vs. LVOOP, Object Oriented Programming in LabVIEW 8.2
- NI Website Case Study: Scoring Object Recognition in Rats with LabVIEW and NI Vision to Eliminate Errors and Subjectivity
- NI Website Case Study: Supplemental Reserve Power Pool Distributed Switching
Other stuff that keeps me busy:
- Playing the guitar
- Scubadiving and Freediving
Thanks Guys (m/f)!
It's a real honor to be joining this exclusive club...
Ofcourse I'll be at the EU Summit! Wouldn't miss it for the world.. Not this year.. 
Jeff, I'll make sure to find a decent spot if a photo-op arrises.
