When You Come to a Fork in the Road to Success…Sooner or Later You Must Merge

January 3rd, 2013   admin  

By Larry Brown Teamwork is very important when you are working on large-scale or rapid turnaround projects. Using a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) such as Mercurial with revision control client TortoiseHG, is a must to increase the likelihood of success and mitigate risk. When multiple developers need to have concurrent access to source code [...]

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Time in a Bottle…Do Not Break in Case of Emergency

January 2nd, 2013   admin  

By Larry Brown Since 1986 National Instruments (NI) has released over 20 editions of LabVIEW not including the separate toolkits and LabVIEW Real-Time. This presents a challenge to the system integrator who does not have a lab full of computers or a library of hard-drive images for each and every individual edition of the LabVIEW [...]

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2012 Year-End Wrap Up

December 17th, 2012   admin  

Wineman Technology wishes you a happy holiday season, and thanks all of our employees and clients that have made 2012 another great year for us. As we wrap up the year, some of our highlights from 2012 include: Received National Instruments’ Test Product of the Year Award at NIWeek for INERTIA™. Delivered testing solutions to [...]

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Avoiding Race Conditions with LabVIEW Programming

December 13th, 2012   admin  

By Michael Webster, a Certified LabVIEW Developer Race Conditions A race condition is an event that can occur in electronics or software where the outcome depends on the order that two or more events occur. This can be whichever signal reaches a logic gate first or what software thread changes a stored value. In the [...]

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National Instruments Technical Symposiums (NITS) 2012 Highlights

December 11th, 2012   admin  

Wineman Technology has completed its whirlwind tour of NITS in Minneapolis, Detroit, Rochester, Philadelphia, and Durham, ending on the first week of December. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and visited our booth.  We enjoyed sharing our test products, INERTIA™ and Dynacar, and talking with each of you about your testing needs. Some of [...]

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SAE 2012 Aerospace Electronics and Avionics Systems Conference Highlights

November 19th, 2012   admin  

This year was the first year for the SAE 2012 Aerospace Electronics and Avionics Systems Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Wineman Technology was pleased to attend and exhibit at the show. We enjoyed talking with so many professionals from all aspects of the aerospace industry. We hope all our booth guests went home with more insight [...]

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Automotive Testing Expo 2012 Highlights

October 31st, 2012   admin  

The 10th annual Automotive Testing Expo wrapped up last week in Novi, Michigan. We hope all our booth guests went home with additional insight on how Wineman Technology’s hardware and software solutions can solve critical testing challenges across a spectrum of ground transportation applications, including complete dynamometer test cells for engines and powertrains, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) [...]

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SAE 2012 Small Engine Technology Conference Highlights

October 29th, 2012   admin  

The SAE 2012 Small Engine Technology Conference wrapped up October 18th in Madison, Wisconsin. We hope all our booth guests went home with more insight on how Wineman Technology’s hardware and software solutions can solve critical testing challenges across a spectrum of small engine applications, such as dynamometers systems, real-time controllers and data acquisition, and [...]

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Time and Materials: Get the custom software you really want

October 24th, 2012   admin  

When procuring custom software, your project scope is typically not going to be defined such that feature requests won’t pop up mid-stream.  First, writing a specification with this much detail is usually cost prohibitive, and second, you will likely discover new requirements in the field.  For fixed-fee jobs to stay profitable, your integrator “must” overestimate [...]

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Using Wineman Technology INERTIA Test Automation Software to Create a Flight Control Simulation System for the Dream Chaser® Spacecraft

October 18th, 2012   admin  

Industry: Aerospace “Wineman Technology delivered our test system in an extremely tight turnaround time of three months and put in long hours to make sure every aspect of the application was running completely smoothly.” – Jake Crine, PE, Senior Mechanical Systems Engineer, Sierra Nevada Corporation The Challenge Creating a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) flight surface actuation simulator [...]

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