GPower er nu en del af IO-Link fællesskabet

GPower Is Now Part of the IO-Link Community

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Based on our IO-Link Toolkit for LabVIEW and TestStand, we are now part of the IO-Link.com Community. The goal of the community is to develop IO-Link as a technology among others. Learn more about IO-Link, see members, and download our free toolkit right here!

What is IO-Link?

IO-Link is the first standardized IO technology worldwide (IEC 61131-9) for the communication with sensors and actuators. The powerful point-to-point communication is based on the long established 3-wire sensor and actuator connection without additional requirements regarding the cable material. So, IO-Link is no fieldbus but the further development of the existing, tried-and-tested connection technology for sensors and actuators.

As example, the system architecture could look as follows which is based on LabVIEW and TestStand:

IO-Link.com og GPower - LabVIEW og TestStand

Member Overview

Who is part of the IO-Link community? By clicking here, you will find an overview of all the companies involved in the IO-Link Consortium.

GPower IO-Link

Even though IO-Link has been around for more than a decade there has been no easy way to connect the devices with the NI tool chain. This is why the GPower IO-Link is revolutionary. By installing just one toolkit you gain access to data from more than 30.000 devices right in your LabVIEW code. Moreover, we have taken our own medicine and utilized our IO-Link LabVIEW Toolkit to build a set of IO-Link step types for TestStand.

Read more about GPower IO-Link

Try GPower IO-Link – It’s Free for 30 Days!

So, are you a LabVIEW or TestStand developer, you should really try GPower IO-Link! A universal driver for more than 30,000 IO-Link devices! For the first time, it’s plug ‘n’ play to access encoders, digital and analog IO, laser rangers, light towers, button presses and much more just by loading their IODD file in LabVIEW or TestStand.

Download free demos for GPower IO-Link!

LabVIEW og TestStand kursus

New Course Dates – May 2023! [LabVIEW and TestStand Basic]

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Do you want to be trained by Denmark's leading LabVIEW and TestStand experts? We have just released new course dates for our Basic courses! We start with LabVIEW Basic on May 8-9 followed by TestStand Basic on May 10-11, 2023. See and register for our courses here!

LabVIEW Basic: 8-9 May, 2023

  • LabVIEW Basic & Best Practices - Step 1
  • Two-day exclusive course
  • English teaching - Danish teacher
  • Certificate of participation
  • Full board

Click here to reserve a seat!

TestStand Basic: 10-11 May, 2023

  • TestStand Basic & Best Practices - Step 1
  • Two-day exclusive course
  • English teaching - Danish teacher
  • Certificate of participation
  • Full board

Click here to reserve a seat!

Read and Hear More

Do you want to know more about our courses? Please, visit our course page or contact our Key Account Manager, Morten Baltzer: mob@gpower.io / +45 49 40 13 11.

***Our courses are held at a conference hotel in or near Aarhus. The exact venue will be announced as soon as possible.

Statements from Our Customers

”LabVIEW Basic was well planned and competently executed. Jens Christian Andersen has enormous knowledge and is a skilled communicator. Topics, assignments, and the order were well chosen. Since it's a two-day beginner's course, the amount of content you get through is of course limited, but if you have to maintain existing code, I feel that I've got the right foundation based on this course.”

Anders HenriksenBB Electronics

”LabVIEW Basic fully met my expectations and was beneficial. The course was well organized, well executed, and logically structured. In short, a course that can be recommended"

Allan Hjorth PedersenWavin

”In addition to the fact that the course clearly met my expectations, Jens Christian is also good at conveying his knowledge. The course has provided a solid base of knowledge that I can build on myself - and which makes it more realistic to get started.”

Rasmus Haahr LarsenTerma

”My approach to the course was that I should most likely not expect to learn anything new, but rather refresh my basic LabVIEW skills. Having said that, I got a lot more out of it than I expected, so all in all a really good course!”

Martin Rønnov AndersenAsetek

”Although I have previously worked with LabVIEW, LabVIEW Basic was really good. It has provided a good insight into the basic structure and how I review existing LabVIEW projects, especially for missing documentation! After the course, I will definitely find it easier to read other people's code. I'm looking forward to the next course!"

Daniel TyrrestrupEC Power
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Heino Holm labview and teststand developer at GPower

GPower Welcomes Experienced Test Developer!

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Today, we welcome Heino Holm, who has become part of our development team! Heino has, among other things, more than 20 years of experience with test automation, platform development, and validation. Skills that are relevant in relation to developing cutting-edge test and measurement systems for the industry!

At GPower, we welcome Heino Holm today. Heino is a trained electronics technician and has worked with test and automation for more than 20 years.

Heino has, among other things, extensive experience with platform development for both Stand-Alone and In-Line systems for electronics productions. Establishment of product testing on existing platforms and development of automated R&D testing for Embedded Software. In addition, he has great insight into and, not least, experience with troubleshooting and validation of new and existing products. All spot on in terms of our portfolio.

Go to GPower’s cases

In addition to many years of experience, Heino is also a Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD). To become a Certified TestStand Developer (CTD), he just needs a recertification, which is part of our program.

Why GPower? A Statement from Heino

“I look forward to working with the development of software in a professional environment, where I will be challenged but also acquire new knowledge and development methods. That said, I am most of all looking forward to working with colleagues known for being some of the best in LabVIEW and TestStand” – Heino Holm.

At GPower, we warmly welcome Heino. We look forward to having you on board!

LabVIEW Course at GPower

LabVIEW Basic & Best Practices: 22-23 November, 2022

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Would you like to be taught in LabVIEW by Denmark's leading experts? Then, it's time to register! ✅

LabVIEW Basic & Best Practices: 22-23 November, 2022

In collaboration with CN Rood, we organize a LabVIEW course at our Headquarters in Hinnerup near Aarhus.

It’s a two-day, exclusive course with a maximum of 10 participants. So, hurry up to save yourself a seat!

Price: 1399$ for each participant.

ONLY 10 SEATS! SIGN UP HERE
  • Introduction
    • What Is LabVIEW
    • Why Use LabVIEW
    • How to Install It
  • The LabVIEW Development Environment
    • The Virtual Instrument
    • Palettes
    • Quick Drop
    • Data Types
    • Collections Of Data Types
    • Controls, Indicators and Terminals
    • Function Nodes (LabVIEW Primitives)
    • LabVIEW Project Explore
  • Code Development In LabVIEW
    • Documentation
    • The Dataflow Paradigm
    • Structures
    • Data Manipulation
    • Synchronization
    • Files
    • Libraries and Name Spacing
  • Basic Error Handling
    • The Error Cluster
    • Propagation Of Errors
    • Merging Errors
    • Build Custom Errors
    • Display Errors
    • Log Errors
  • Debug And Test
    • Debug Tools
    • Analyzing and Profiling
    • Unit Testing
  • Design Patterns
    • Design Patterns
    • Advanced Design Patterns
    • Exercise: Implement Application
  • Building Application
    • Application Builder
    • Executable
    • Installer
    • Packed Project Library (PPL)
    • Source Distribution
    • NI Packages
    • Exercise: Build and Deploy an Application
  • Q&A Course Wrap-up

Why LabVIEW?

LabVIEW is a development environment for the graphical programming language G from NI (National Instruments). The programming language is strong when it is used for tasks that require test, measurement, and control.

An advantage of LabVIEW is that it visualizes every aspect of applications, including hardware configuration, measurement data, and debugging. This visualization makes it more simple to integrate measurement hardware from any vendor, develop data analysis algorithms, and design custom engineering user interfaces.

One More CLD at GPower!

Congratulations, Simon! One More CLD at GPower!

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We are proud to announce that Simon Sejer Pedersen has just passed the exam as a Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD). An exam that makes him a member of a strong, growing, and global LabVIEW community.

Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD)

We have just become one more LabVIEW developer at GPower. It comes after a successful Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) exam, which emphasizes Simon’s LabVIEW skills, including the ability to design and develop functional programs while minimizing development time and ensuring maintainability through proper documentation and style.

Among the Highest Certified in Europe

At GPower, we are among the highest certified LabVIEW and TestStand teams in Europe. Both are software products from NI (National Instruments). Moreover, we are also the team with the highest NI certification average in Denmark.

At the same time, we are also the only team that represents developers who are all certified in both LabVIEW and TestStand. Certifications that are supported by no less than two LabVIEW Champions.

Do you need LabVIEW Support? Read more here

What Is LabVIEW?

LabVIEW is a development environment for the graphical programming language G from NI (National Instruments). The programming language is strong when it is used for tasks that require test, measurement, and control.

An advantage of LabVIEW is that it visualizes every aspect of applications, including hardware configuration, measurement data, and debugging. This visualization makes it simpler to integrate measurement hardware from any vendor, develop data analysis algorithms, and design custom engineering user interfaces.

Read more about the benefits of LabVIEW

Two State-of-the-art IO-Link Products in the Same Office Building

Two State-of-the-art IO-Link Products in the Same Office Building!

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In most cases, you go online to find information about new products and interesting theories. A Google search or skimming a newsletter, and we're fast forward. But as we also know, it’s sometimes the informal conversations that can result in knowledge sharing and sales. This scenario is exactly the case in this story where it has turned out that there are two world news about IO-Link in the same house.

Two IO-Link World News in the Same Office Building

At GPower, we are part of a larger office community at Point Nordic in Hinnerup near Aarhus. This is also the case for Wika resulting in great news within IO-Link.

While Wika is behind the world’s first IO-Link pressure sensor with 360° LED status display (Wika A-1200 IO-Link 1.1), GPower has the world’s first IO-Link Toolkit for LabVIEW and TestStand.

How Is It Revolutionary?

The revolutionary element about Wika’s product is that it’s the first IO-Link pressure sensor with a 360° LED status display (see picture). A product that enables operators and repairers to quickly see if everything is OK or if problems need to be solved.

If a green signal is displayed, everything is OK. When a yellow signal is displayed, a critical condition has occurred, and when a red signal is displayed, a definite error is the case. You can use an IO-Link command to make the status LED flash, so you can easily find the device you want to work with in a setup with many devices.

The revolutionary thing about GPower IO-Link, on the other hand, is that the product enables you to easily and quickly connect your IO-Link devices to NI’s tool chain. By simply installing a toolkit, GPower IO-Link provides access to data from more than 30,000 devices in the LabVIEW code. In addition, we have taken our own medicine by using our IO-Link LabVIEW Toolkit to build IO-Link step types for TestStand.

“During the development of GPower IO-Link, we went to great lengths to obtain various IO-Link compatible devices to test our product. It was only after the release of the first version that we accidentally discovered that Wika, who is housed in the same building as us, has IO-Link units in their portfolio. I hope that we can help each other finding areas of application for our products in the future,” says senior specialist at GPower, Jens Christian Ø. Andersen.

Get to Know the IO-Link Products Better [Video]