Engineers Week is an opportunity to honor the men and women who are driving engineering innovation. We are a company made up of engineers who provide engineering services to some of the world’s most innovative companies, so we know a thing or two about what makes a great engineer.
In October G Systems hosted the Dallas user group’s first LabVIEW coding challenge ever!! There were three rounds of stiff competition. The first coding challenge was implementing an Atbash cipher. It took a little while for the competitors to warm up but they rolled their sleeves up for the round two challenge, finding numeric palindromes. By the time round three began competitors in the room were borrowing laptops to “test” their LabVIEW skills. Could they solve the Mixtape Challenge? Who would wind up the overall winner? Who would end up completing all challenges with the fastest time?
Accelerated life testing is an important process to ensure products continue to function as intended throughout their entire lifecycle. To perform this process as quickly as possible, accelerated life testers (ALTs) can be used to conduct tests in parallel using multiple testers. This way, potential problems in a product can be identified much more quickly than if a product had to be tested under normal use conditions. Engineers can then use the data collected by the ALT, as well as the nature of the actual failure, to improve the product and increase longevity.
