Speakers:
Jeff Kennedy (Principle Hardware Engineer, National Instruments)
Chris Van Horn (Senior Mechanical Engineer, National Instruments)
When selecting an industrial controller, you aren’t just buying a collection of parts. Despite the market’s “specmanship,” many subtle factors contribute to controller performance, reliability, and the total cost of ownership. These factors create pretty big differences between controllers with the same specs. At this session, an NI digital hardware engineer and an NI mechanical engineer break down common controller specifications (temperature range, I/O mix, memory/disk selection, power supply design, and so on) and the various design decisions behind them.
