You might be forgiven for believing that AI Chat Bots are on the verge of consigning Instructor-Led training courses to the dustbin of history. Type in any engineering topic and an AI chatbot will offer to draw you up a compelling sales or training slideshow. For developers of engineering software applications it goes even further – don’t bother learning the language, just let me code it for you.
Coding Needs Context
35+ years of experience in the measurement and automation industry tells me that while it may happen someday, we are not in that space yet. A software-based measurement and automation system is a lot more than just a bunch of code. To create an efficient, scalable and maintainable system you need to understand:
• All the potential elements of the system including the core data acquisition functions, requirements for data analysis and reporting, the user-interface, and connection to other business and engineering networks.
• How to optimize all those elements to suit the unique requirements of each system.
• How to work with the end user or customer to transform their vision for the system into a realistic and cost-effective functional specification
• How to test, deploy and maintain the system into its target environment
I’m not ready to leave all that to ChatGPT, or even NI’s own Nigel.
Get LabVIEW Training Grounded in Real-World Experience
If you are an engineer that just wants to learn a bit about LabVIEW programming it is perfectly reasonable to self-teach using NI’s manuals, a bit of google searching, and even an AI bot or two.
But when it comes to learning how to design, build, and maintain a major NI-based measurement and automation system under the pressure of a commercial deployment deadline, then the understanding gained through formal Instructor-Led training is invaluable. And the best instructors are those that have practical hands-on experience doing the things that you are trying to do.
Elevate Controls offers a range of Instructor-Led training modules covering the National Instruments LabVIEW platform and related topics in measurement and automation. Our courses reflect our 65+ man-years of experience as commercial LabVIEW developers, and the insights we have gained along the way from training our own applications engineering staff. We believe that our courses offer the quickest and most cost-effective pathway for new or self-taught LabVIEW programmers to become productive application developers.
