Global automation company Emerson has expanded its NI Nigel AI capabilities across its test software portfolio, adding prompt-based code generation to the NI LabVIEW+ Suite and advancing the NI ecosystem into a more integrated, AI-ready test automation platform. These upgrades are designed to help industries such as aerospace, semiconductors, and transportation speed up product development, testing, and deployment while maintaining strict safety and reliability standards.
Nigel AI is a testing-focused artificial intelligence technology built specifically for demanding test engineering environments. Planned for release later in 2026, the new features will help engineers accelerate test creation while retaining full visibility and control over the process. The AI functionality will also extend across the wider NI software suite, including NI FlexLogger, NI InstrumentStudio, NI TestStand, and NI SystemLink, delivering intelligent, context-aware assistance throughout the entire test lifecycle—from development and validation to deployment and reuse.
“The NI platform has evolved through every major shift in technology, continually improving how test engineers reach their goals,” said Ritu Favre, president of Emerson’s test and measurement business. “As AI reshapes product development, it’s this adaptability that allows our AI-ready platform to stand out. The real strength of the NI platform isn’t any single capability; it’s in the integration of hardware, software, data and ecosystem that engineers can rely on as technology continues to evolve.”
Built to support the growing complexity and automation demands of modern technology, the NI platform unifies modular hardware, open software and a data foundation designed for scale. By embedding AI into everyday engineering tools, Emerson enables engineering teams to move faster and make better decisions without compromising measurement integrity or system reliability. For example, in internal testing, Emerson engineers have used Nigel to reduce test development and troubleshooting from days or hours to minutes.
- At the hardware level, the NI platform delivers low size, weight and power consumption while ensuring high configurability and supporting diverse signals, precise timing and high-performance data movement for demanding test applications.
- NI software connects operating environments and computing technologies, allowing test workflows to evolve and incorporate AI naturally over time.
- A shared data foundation simplifies the capture, management and reuse of measurement data, enabling analytics, collaboration and long-term system optimization across teams and sites.
During NI Connect keynote presentations, companies including NVIDIA, Alstom, Valeo, Zap Energy and Cyth Systems shared how they are using Emerson’s NI test and measurement technologies to accelerate development and validation of next‑generation products.
