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Battery Lab solution drives down costs At its first NIConnect get together with customers following its acquisition by Emerson Electric, NI (the company formerly known as National Instruments), launched a software-defined battery lab solution.
Drita Roggenbuck: “NI’s Software-Defined Battery Lab offers the step function change needed to improve time to market and battery performance through test systems and test insights.”
T his is just the ticket as far as Emerson is concerned. In its announcement of the acquisition, the company cited, amongst other benefits, the ability to be in markets like semiconductor and electric vehicle manufacturing. “NI expands Emerson's reach into the design and validation phase of the lifecycle, providing early access to customers,” says the company. “Overall, NI will increase Emerson's end market exposure in discrete markets to 18% of sales, which will be Emerson's second largest industry segment.” Not forgetting that with 20% of sales in software, NI also increases Emerson's exposure to high-growth industrial software opportunities. Designed for electric vehicle battery validation labs, the software-defined battery lab solution covers the entire, sustainable battery lifecycle from research and development to validation, production, second-life, and remanufacturing.
It supports EV manufacturers and battery suppliers in tackling the pressing challenges of time-to-market, cost, and battery performance. The offering prioritises an open, soft- ware-connected approach to enable flexible, automated, and intelligent test strategies from an individual battery validation workbench to global lab deployment. The software-defined battery lab draws parallels from the concept of software-de- fined vehicles, which is revolutionising how engineering teams bring vehicles to market and continuously improve their performance. “We’re in the nascent stages of the battery revolution,” said Drita Roggenbuck, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Transportation Business Unit at NI. “Companies are faced with driving down battery costs, improving performance, innovating endlessly, and scaling. At a time when new vehicle programs are as short as ever, and battery validation and production must scale immediately and continuously
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