Introduction:

LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) training program introduces industrial automation and guides the participants in exploring the LabVIEW environment. This training imparts the skills to draw you code and extend your graphical design capabilities for measurement and automation. The learning of various tools, design techniques, and ways of plotting data results in building virtual instrumentation or a prototype of a plant. The course will also give you an introduction to DAQ and I/O Modules. LabVIEW is unmatched in helping you reduce test times, deliver business insights based on collected data, and translate ideas into reality.

Course Content:

1. Introduction

a.Introduction To Automation

• Brief Description of a Control System
• Micro Controller, PID Controller, PLC Controller
• History & Need of Industrial Automation
• Application of Industrial Automation
• Basic Components of Automation
• Hardware Classification of Automation

2. LabVIEW

a. LabVIEW Environment Basics

• Front Panel
• Controls Palette
• Controls and Indicators
• Block Diagram
• Terminals
• Controls, Indicators, and Constants
• Block Diagram Nodes
• Functions Palette
• Searching for Controls, VIs and Functions

b. Start Using LabVIEW

• The LabVIEW Environment
  Block Diagram
  Numeric Sub Palette
  Boolean Sub Palette
  String & Path Sub Palette
  Function Palette
  Tools Palette
  Wiring
  Toolbar
  Execution
  The Objects short-cut menu
  Dataflow Programming
  Help
  Exercises

c.Sub VIs

• Create New Sub VI from Scratch
  Input and Output SubVI Connectors
  Icon Editor
  Create Sub VI from existing code
  Using Sub VIs
  Exercises

d.Customize LabVIEW

• Exercises

e.Graphical Programming

• Wires
• Automatically Wiring Objects
• Manually Wiring Objects

f.Common Tools In LabVIEW

• Selecting a Tool
• Shortcut Menus
• Property Dialog Boxes
• Front Panel Window Toolbar
• Block Diagram Window Toolbar

g.Debugging Tools In LabVIEW

• How to find errors
• Highlight Execution
• Probes
• Breakpoints
• Step into/over/out debugging
• Fixing Broken VIs
• Finding Causes for Broken VIs
• Common Causes of Broken VIs
• Fixing Incorrect Behavior
• Block Diagram Toolbar
• Probe Tool

h.Programming In LabVIEW

• Data Structures
• Arrays
• Auto-Indexing
• Array Functions
• Clusters
• Cluster Order
• Cluster Elements
• Enumerated data
• Working with Strings
• Execution Structures
• While loops, for loops
• Case structures
• Passing Data between Loop Iterations – shift registers
• Handling Errors – error handling and error clusters

i.Error Handling

• Finding Errors
• Error Wiring
• Error handling in SubVIs
• Error Handling
• Exercises

j.Working With Projects

• Project Explorer
• Deployment
• Exercises

k.Design Techniques

• Force Program Flow
• Shift Register
• State Programming Architecture
• Multiple Loops/Parallel programming
• Templates
• Exercises

l.User Interface

• Properties
• Exercises

m.Plotting Data

• Customizing
• Exercises

n.Tips & Tricks

• 10 functions you must know
• 10 most useful Short-cuts
• 5 Example Applications

o.Additional Exercises