Chandran_Nair-Driving_Technological_Innovations_to_Improve_Productivity.pdf

Driving Technological Innovations to Improve

Productivity

Chandran Nair Managing Director

National Instruments Southeast Asia

How innovative environment helps retain the best

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Everyday Engineering Challenges

Do more with less

Integrate code and systems

Get increasingly complex products to market faster

Adapt to evolving application requirements

Protect existing investments

Minimize power consumption

Improve quality of

life and safety

Save time, effort,

and money

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Our Mission We equip engineers and scientists with tools that

accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery.

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Our Stability

Annual Revenue: $1.17 billion

Global Operations: Approximately 7,100 employees;

operations in almost 50 countries

Broad Customer Base: More than 35,000 companies

served annually

Diversity: No industry >15% of revenue

Culture: Ranked among the top 25 companies to work worldwide

by the Great Place to Work Institute

Strong Cash Position: Cash and short-term investments of

$393 million at December 31, 2013

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Who chooses NI?

95% of Fortune 500 manufacturing companies have adopted NI

virtual instrumentation.

Sold products to more than 35,000 companies in 90 countries

100+ Singapore Companies

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

First mechanical loom (1784)

First production line,

Cincinnati slaughterhouses (1870)

First programmable logic controller,

Modicon 084 (1969)

First Industrial Revolution

Water and steam

powered mechanical

production

Second

Industrial Revolution

Electric power and

mass production

Third

Industrial Revolution

Electronics and

IT automation

Fourth

Industrial Revolution

End of 18th century Start of 20th century Start of 1970s Today

com

ple

xity

time

Source DKFI 2011

Cyber-physical systems

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Global Race for Competitive Advantage

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What Is a Cyber-Physical System (CPS)?

CPS integrates the dynamics of the physical processes with those of

the software and networking, providing abstractions and modeling,

design, and analysis techniques for the integrated whole.

Communication

Systems

Ref: http://cyberphysicalsystems.org/

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Cyber-Physical System Example

Machine-Machine

Integration Local HMI

Multi-axes Motion

Controller

High

Performance IO

Process and Machine

Health Monitoring

Safety Systems

Machine Vision

Plant integration,

PLM, SCADA

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Networked Smart Factories and Systems

Cloud/

Services

Factory 1

Factory 2

Management & Planning

IT Systems

Cyber Physical Systems

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Systems

The Role of Cyber-Physical System Platform

Communication

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What does this mean to you?

Greater efficiency

Combination control, computation and communication to improve

quality, increase throughput and optimize cost

Better insight

Access to real time data to reduce down-time, improve analytical

models and ERP

Competitive Advantage

Develop systems that are built for economies of scale

Industry 4.0 report: This will radically transform workers job and competence

profiles

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Level Computers Telev ision Music Player Smartphones E-Readers

Desktops and Laptops

iPad iPhone iPod

A Platform Revolutionizes Your Approach to

Solutions

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Graphical System Design A platform-based approach for measurement and control

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Team Size and Skills

Engineers should therefore be equipped with the methods and tools required to develop models for managing this complexity

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The Reality of Embedded System Design With

Graphical System Design

4.8

6.2

11.5

12.5

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

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Size of Core Embedded Team Months to Complete Entire Project

NI UBM 2012 Survey of Embedded Markets

42%

55%

3%

UBM 2012 Survey of Embedded Markets

On or Ahead of Schedule Late or Behind Schedule Cancelled

NI UBM

Size of core embedded team

(average # of SW/HW/firmware engineers) 4.8 11.5

Complete projects in months 6.2 12.5

On/ahead of schedule 58% 42%

Behind schedule/late 38% 55%

58%

38%

4%

NI

Wilson Research Group, 2012 National Instruments/UBM Survey of Embedded Markets, JanuaryApril 2012.

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Cyber Physical Systems Across Industries and

Applications

Smart-Grid

HIL Big Physics

Production

Machines Heavy Equipment Test Cell

T&M

Metal Fabrication

New design for hospital

bed helps boost

productivity

HOPE Technik Pte Ltd

Using the NI LabVIEW RIO architecture, Sesto Medium Transport is designed to meet the needs of

any care-giving organization, by providing motorized or autonomous mobility to where it is needed

most, transportation of patients. Its ability to adapt to different hospital bed types means that your

existing fleet of hospital beds can be motorized with minimal re-investment. This will halve the number

of medical staff required to manoeuvre beds in future.

PV Systems Monitoring

Applications

Track Rail Vibration

Monitoring, Measurement,

and Data-Logging System

Ken Engineering and

Consulting Pte Ltd

The Challenge:

Creating a cost-effective real-time

monitoring, measurement, and data-logging

system to detect and record vibrations from

the track rail of a rail transport system.

The Solution:

Using NI CompactRIO and touch panel

hardware with NI LabVIEW and precision

accelerometers to develop a portable yet

versatile monitoring, measurement, and

data-logging system that meets specific

requirements.

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Innovation and Retention

Singapores manufacturing industry is centered around High Value, High IP products

Low Volume High Mix manufacturing requires custom processes to be implemented locally

Singapore possess high technology manufacturing expertise

o Surveys have shown that a large percentage of high potential employees leave companies that do not have room for innovation in their jobs

Adoption of platforms to accelerate innovation will help with retention of top engineering talent.

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