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LabVIEW Consultancy
Why Call in a LabVIEW Consultant?
LabVIEW is such a vast programming language now that many engineers find it hard to keep up! This is especially true if they spend a significant amount of time performing tasks other than programming. This is where LabVIEW consultancy is a great idea. Getting help from an experienced LabVIEW consultant relieves the pressure on your in-house engineers, freeing them to become more productive.
Problem - How to Assess a LabVIEW Consultant or Contractor?
It is very difficult for engineering companies to assess a LabVIEW consultant or contractor.
- LabVIEW programming requires a certain type of logical thinking and a CV will not tell you whether the programmer has this type of skill!
- A string of previous contracts may look impressive, but the reality may be that one company after another may have become disillusioned in some way or another with the LabVIEW programmer.
- A programmer who has apparently been programming in LabVIEW for, say, 5 years may have only done a few months of LabVIEW programming during that time.
Vast Difference in Skill Levels
One LabVIEW programmer may be several times more productive than another. There are three factors here:
- time taken to write code initially
- time taken to test code
- time taken to maintain code months or years into the future
The best programmers not only write their code efficiently and quickly, but it tends to be relatively bug-free so that testing is quicker and less painful, and the code is much easier to modify or maintain in the future.
Ways to Assess
Here are some things you can easily do to assess a LabVIEW consultant or contractor:
- Speak to National Instruments about the programmer. A programmer with even moderate experience is likely to be known by National Instruments UK Ltd, particularly by the NI sales representative who covers the area in which the LabVIEW programmer is based.
- Find out if the programmer is a "Certified LabVIEW Developer". Tim Fellows of LiveWires has gained this qualification, having passed National Instruments' 4-hour exam at the first attempt.
- Ask to speak to users of the programs previously written by the individual.
Assess Us!
Feel free to investigate our level of expertise in the ways we have just described! At LiveWires, we believe we can provide the best in LabVIEW consultancy.
Then Call Us In!
We can make site visits, provide telephone advice or even perform remote programming/debugging! A LabVIEW consultant should not keep his expertise to himself, and we are happy to share our know-how with you! We can provide the following:
- Complete programs from start to finish (see LabVIEW programming)
- Modifications to and maintenance of existing systems
- Start-up assistance - including useful tips-of-the-trade etc!
- Troubleshooting - when you just can't get things to work properly
- Advice on LabVIEW methodologies etc
- Completion of programs after the original programmer has left your organisation
For excellence in LabVIEW consultancy, come to LiveWires!
