When it comes to innovation, progress is collaborative. For 40 years, NI has worked with engineers and scientists to provide answers to the most challenging questions. Through these pursuits, NI customers have delivered hundreds of thousands of products to market, overcome innumerable technological roadblocks, and engineered a better life for us all.
Through the work of NI customers, we are seeing the type of societal and technological impact within our lifetimes that would have once been impossible. NI’s platform-based approach—a unified software architecture and modular, programmable hardware—greatly reduces the complexity of today’s smart, connected systems and helps engineers do more, innovate faster, and easily integrate new technologies as they become available.
You can’t build systems to solve the challenges of tomorrow based on the infrastructure and standards available today. That’s why NI innovates for the future based on next-generation system architectures, technologies that are not yet finalized, and communication protocols not yet approved to ensure that our customers stay ahead of the technology curve. With these powerful, off-the-shelf NI solutions, engineers and scientists can tailor their systems to meet their needs now and in the future.
Aerospace and Defense
NI offers systems that accelerate the development of cutting-edge aerospace and defense applications ranging from hardware-in-theloop simulation to mixed-signal electronic test solutions.
Industrial Machinery
The NI platform-based approach delivers the efficiency, speed, and reliability to stay competitive today and the scalability and flexibility to create smart factories of the future.
Automotive
NI systems accelerate the entire automotive development process by providing a platform that allows for maximum reuse and unifies design, validation, and automated test from concept to production.
Energy
NI develops powerful control and adaptive platforms for smart grid and digital oil field applications that address current and future operational performance, efficiency, and productivity challenges.
RF and Wireless Communications
From algorithm design to high-volume production test of wireless technologies, NI delivers an integrated hardware and software platform to reduce prototyping and test costs using a common environment.

The success of our customers and the resulting impact on society are core to NI’s mission and drive our commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. Airbus,
National Grid UK, and Subaru are just three examples of how NI’s platform helps forward-thinking companies drive innovation in various industries.
Transmission system operator
National Grid UK deployed an advanced, upgradable grid measurement system using the NI platform to make the grid more efficient and reliable and keep the lights on for nearly
20 million people in the UK.
Subaru is working to develop safer, more economical hybrid vehicles.
By selecting the NI hardware-in-theloop platform, Subaru can perform stringent tests in significantly less time while adding new tests that were previously impossible.
Airbus is adding intelligence to its tools and shop-floor systems to simplify the production process by digitally managing and checking operator tasks across its distributed manufacturing floor. This results in a more efficient and effective airplane manufacturing process.
35,000+ companies use
NI products
$1.23B
revenue
~7,400 employees worldwide
16% of annual revenue invested in R&D
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