空中客车公司选择美国国家仪器公司软件用于风洞测试数据处理

空中客车公司选择美国国家仪器公司软件用于风洞测试数据处理

Nov. 22, 2006 – Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most comprehensive family of airliners, selected National Instruments DIAdem data analysis and report generation software as its Europe-wide standard tool for processing wind-tunnel test data, including the effects of specific thermal and aerodynamic parameters on airliners. With NI DIAdem, Airbus test engineers can automate time-consuming, repetitive analysis procedures and streamline the data reporting process to reduce analysis time and make important engineering decisions for their airliners sooner.

11月22日消息——拥有客机家族最广的、全球领先的飞机制造商空中客车公司选择了国家仪器公司（NI）的DIAdem数据分析和报告生成软件作为在全欧洲范围内处理风洞测试数据的标准工具，包括客机上精确的热量和空气动力参数的影响。利用NI的DIAdem，空客的测试工程师可以使耗时重复的分析程序实现自动操作，使数据报告处理实现流线操作，从而减少了分析时间，使他们更快地作出重大的客机工程决定。

Airbus selected Serco Test Systems Inc., a National Instruments Alliance Partner, to refurbish its wind-tunnel facility in Filton, United Kingdom, to include a new data acquisition and control system and an updated control room environment. To accomplish this task, the companies selected DIAdem and National Instruments LabVIEW software, as well as NI FieldPoint distributed I/O hardware, for developing the data acquisition and control system. With the new system, Airbus wind-tunnel test engineers can simulate a variety of flight situations to measure the effects of multiple parameters, such as wind, temperature and force, on a model airplane.

空客选定NI的联盟伙伴Serco测试系统公司为其在英国的Filton市重新建造了风洞设施，包括一个新的数据采集和控制系统，以及一个升级过的控制室环境。为了完成这个任务，空客和Serco公司选择了DIAdem和NI的LabVIEW软件，以及NI FieldPoint 分布式I/O 硬件，用于开发该数据采集和控制系统。通过该新系统，空客的风洞测试工程师可以模拟多种的飞行状况，以测量众多参数的影响，例如在一架模型飞机里测量风力、温度以及气流等。

Airbus wind-tunnel test engineers also can take advantage of the DIAdem DataPlugin technology to read their proprietary data exchange format, which they developed to archive and share their test data and results among multiple facilities. With support for their critical aerodynamics data in DIAdem, Airbus wind-tunnel test engineers at different sites across Europe can immediately access interpretable test data quickly on their desktop PCs, interactively compare historical and current wind-tunnel test data and collaborate to make important decisions for improving performance and handling quality as well as other characteristics of their airliners.

空客的风洞测试工程师们同时还可以利用DIAdem领先的DataPlugin技术读取他们自己专为在不同风洞之间保存和共享其测试数据而开发的数据交换格式。利用DIAdem对他们重要的空气动力数据的支持，在全欧洲不同地方的空客风洞测试工程师可以立即在他们的台式电脑上快速地访问可编译的测试数据，交互比较历史和当前风洞测试数据，合作做出重要决定，以提高他们客机的性能和操作质量，以及其它特性。

Airbus selected DIAdem for the analysis and reporting of wind-tunnel test data because the software can automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks and significantly reduce the time necessary for processing the test data. At Airbus, the wind-tunnel tests include different airliner characteristics. By standardizing on the new database format and DIAdem, these tests are more efficient to help engineers make decisions quickly.

空客选择DIAdem用于风洞测试数据的分析和报告是因为这软件可以使重复而耗时的任务自动完成，极大减少了处理测试数据的必要时间。在空客，风洞测试包括了不同的客机特点。通过将新的数据库格式和DIAdem标准化，这些测试更有效率地帮助工程师们迅速作出决议。

Before standardizing on DIAdem, Airbus relied on proprietary solutions and other software products, which were not compatible in terms of development and maintenance costs. Airbus engineers working on wind-tunnel data can share their data across a central server and, with DIAdem as their analysis tool, they can quickly generate reports based on the parameters they require. Also, they can easily read their reports in formats that help them better analyze their data, such as 2-D, 3-D and polar graphs.

在DIAdem标准化之前，空客靠自有的解决方案和其它在开发和维护成本上不一致的软件产品。利用DIAdem作为他们的分析工具，从事风洞数据工作的空客工程师们可以在一个中央服务器之间共享他们的数据，而且在需要的数据的基础上，他们可以迅速地作出报告。同样，他们能够以帮助其更好地分析数据的格式，例如2D,3D或者两极曲线图等读取他们的报告。

Many engineers in the automotive and aerospace industries use DIAdem for interactive and automated analysis and reporting. DIAdem is designed to meet the demands of today’s testing environments in which quick access to large volumes of scattered data, consistent reporting and data visualization are required to make informed decisions. With the data-mining functions in DIAdem, engineers can correlate data based on its descriptive attributes. The software provides connectivity to a wide variety of industry-standard formats and gives engineers the ability to import custom-defined data files.

许多汽车工程师和航天工程师使用DIAdem用于交互和自动分析及报告。DIAdem的设计满足了现今的测试环境要求，这些环境是作出基于可靠信息决定所必需的，要求在分散数据里可以快速访问大量数据、一致的报告以及数据可视化。利用DIAdem的数据挖掘功能，工程师们在它的描述属性基础上，将数据相互关联。DIAdem软件为各种各样的工业标准格式提供了连接性，而且使工程师可以输入自定义的数据文件。

about National Instruments
关于美国国家仪器公司

For 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PXI Express, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

成立30年来，美国国家仪器公司（NI）一直是虚拟仪器技术的技术先锋与领导者——虚拟仪器技术这一创新概念已经改变了各个领域的工程师和科学家们进行测试测量和自动化的方式。通过采用PC和商业技术，虚拟仪器技术通过易于集成的软件，如图形化开发环境NI LabVIEW，以及基于PXI、PCI、PCI Express、PXI Express、USB和以太网的模块化测量和控制硬件，为用户降低测试、控制和设计领域应用的成本，并大幅提高生产效率。NI总部设于美国德克萨斯州的奥斯汀，在40个国家中设有分支机构，共拥有4000多名员工。在过去连续七年里，《财富》杂志评选NI为全美最适合工作的100家公司之一。

（本文由中华工控网翻译，转载请注明出处，更多中英对照资料请进异域来风http://world.gkong.com）