LabVIEW Test Automation & Custom Test Systems
From benchtop prototype validation to high-throughput production test — designed so your engineers can configure, start, and walk away.
Hundreds of successful test automation projects — that's not a marketing number, that's 26+ years of our founder building LabVIEW-based test systems for engineers who need things to actually work. Every system is designed around one idea: your test engineers should be able to configure a test, press start, and walk away while the system handles the rest.
Using LabVIEW and NI data acquisition hardware (CompactRIO, CompactDAQ, PXI), each system transforms a standard computer into a purpose-built instrument — collecting real-world signals like voltage, temperature, pressure, strain, and vibration at the acquisition rates your application demands.
Test System Architectures
Every test system starts with the right architecture. Depending on the complexity and throughput requirements, Korpra selects from proven LabVIEW design patterns including Queued Message Handler (QMH), Actor Framework, and DQMH (Delacor Queued Message Handler) for scalable, maintainable code that doesn’t collapse under its own weight three years from now. For production environments where test sequence management is critical, TestStand integration provides standardized sequencing, reporting, and database logging — so your test data actually goes somewhere useful instead of disappearing into a folder nobody opens.
NI Hardware Platforms
Choosing the right hardware platform is half the battle. CompactRIO (cRIO) is the workhorse for rugged, real-time test systems — FPGA-level timing, EtherCAT expansion, and it handles the kind of I/O density that makes other platforms sweat. CompactDAQ (cDAQ) is the smart choice for benchtop and lab environments where you need fast setup and sensor-level accuracy without the complexity of real-time OS. PXI is the go-to for high-channel-count production test where throughput and synchronization across dozens of modules matter. And for applications needing microsecond-level determinism — like cam phaser testing or high-speed waveform playback — LabVIEW FPGA programming unlocks hardware-timed loops that software alone can’t touch.
Communication Protocols & Integration
Real test systems don’t exist in a vacuum. They need to talk to PLCs, motion controllers, thermal chambers, hydraulic systems, and whatever else sits on the factory floor. Korpra integrates across EtherCAT, Modbus TCP/RTU, OPC-UA, GPIB, RS-232/485, and TCP/IP — because the hardest part of most test system projects isn’t the measurement. It’s getting all the subsystems to coordinate without stepping on each other.
Types of Test Systems Built
Functional test, end-of-line (EOL) production test, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, durability and life-cycle testing, environmental stress screening, data logging and long-duration monitoring, custom instrument driver development — if it involves measuring something and making a decision based on the result, it’s probably been on the bench at some point.
Raw data is just noise until someone turns it into something useful. Korpra builds machine learning models, predictive analytics pipelines, and AI-powered tools that help you stop guessing and start knowing — whether that’s predicting equipment failure before it happens, classifying defects in real time, or pulling patterns out of datasets that would take a human analyst months to find.
NLP for text analysis, computer vision for image and video data, deep learning for complex pattern recognition, and custom dashboards so your team can actually see what’s happening without a PhD in data science. Deployed across manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and R&D environments — plus specialized work in satellite imagery machine learning services, geospatial machine learning consulting, and predictive analytics for agriculture, including remote sensing data analysis services for crop yield forecasting and precision agriculture.
The typical architecture: a PLC drives the process, LabVIEW or C# provides higher-level HMI and processing capabilities that PLCs can’t handle (like complex calculations, vision integration, or recipe management), and a backend database ensures every data point is logged and traceable. It’s not glamorous, but it’s what keeps production lines running and auditors happy.
Deployed across manufacturing (production tracking, output logging, quality control), oil & gas (pipeline monitoring, safety compliance), and industrial automation (SCADA integration, remote monitoring, alarm management). If you need real-time visibility into a process and a record of everything that happened, this is what we build.
Technical Capabilities & Platform Expertise
Twenty-six years of building LabVIEW test systems means knowing which platform fits which problem — and which combinations to avoid. Every project starts with architecture selection, not just hardware shopping.
Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA), NI Alliance Member, and Certified LabVIEW Instructor — the kind of credentials that mean the code will still make sense to whoever maintains it after the project ships.
NI Hardware
Protocols & Buses
Software & Languages
Test Types
Specialized Test System Capabilities
The specific test system disciplines we deliver — from blank-sheet design through production deployment, in LabVIEW, TestStand, NI hardware, and custom integration with your existing manufacturing infrastructure.
Automated Test Stand Development
Mechanical-software co-development from blank sheet through commissioning. We work alongside your local machine builders to specify the test stand, write the LabVIEW or TestStand application that runs it, and integrate the DAQ, motion, and PLC layers — so what gets delivered is one cohesive system, not a bag of parts.
Custom Test Cell Controller Software Development
A test cell typically has a PLC for safety, a motion controller for actuation, instruments for measurement, and a database for results. Our test cell controller software ties all of that together — a single supervisory application that handles sequencing, operator UI, recipe management, fault recovery, and traceability across every subsystem in the cell.
EOL Functional Test Development
End-of-line functional test stations live or die by uptime. We develop EOL test systems that run thousands of parts per shift with deterministic cycle time, full pass/fail logging, MES and SQL integration, operator HMIs designed for line speed, and the error-recovery logic that keeps production moving when the network drops or a sensor fails.
Board-Level Test System Design Services
PCB and PCBA functional test, in-circuit verification, and burn-in stations using NI PXI, custom fixtures, and source / measure / digital I/O modules. We design the test architecture, build the LabVIEW + TestStand application, and validate the system against your DUT specification before it ever sees a board.
Automated Hipot Test Station
Hipot, dielectric strength, ground-bond, leakage current, and insulation resistance testing — automated and integrated with the rest of the test sequence. Pass/fail logic and audit trails meet UL, CE, IEC, and customer-specific compliance requirements without operators reading multimeters or transcribing values.
Configurable Test System Architecture
Test systems that survive product changes. A configurable architecture means new product variants, new test specs, or new measurement techniques can be added by configuration — not by re-engineering the application. Recipe-driven sequencing, plugin-style measurement modules, and abstracted hardware interfaces are the LabVIEW patterns that make this work.
Scalable Test System Architecture
When you build five test stands and the sixth needs a different DAQ chassis or instrument, you don't want to rewrite the application. A scalable architecture — abstracted hardware interfaces, shared measurement libraries, and well-defined module boundaries — makes hardware swaps, vendor migrations, and rolling out additional stations to new lines or new plants painless. We build for scale from the first system.
LabVIEW System Integration & Code Refactoring Services
Pure-software LabVIEW engagements: integrating new instrumentation into an existing application, refactoring legacy LabVIEW code to remove anti-patterns, modernizing across LabVIEW versions, and performing CLA-grade architecture audits. Useful when your team owns the hardware and integration but needs a senior LabVIEW engineer to make the software production-grade.
Industries Served
LabVIEW test automation and custom test systems delivered across these industries — each with its own compliance requirements, measurement challenges, and things that can go wrong at 2 AM on a production floor.
Automotive
EOL testers, cam phaser validation, ECU testing
Aerospace
Flight hardware qualification, actuator durability
Manufacturing
Production line monitoring, quality control, data logging
Consumer Electronics
Functional test, burn-in, calibration systems
Pharmaceuticals
Environmental monitoring, 21 CFR Part 11 compliance
Materials Science
Tensile testing, fatigue analysis, thermal cycling
Industrial Automation
PLC integration, SCADA, HMI development
Renewable Energy
Inverter testing, solar panel characterization
Power Electronics
High-voltage test, power converter validation
Electronics
PCB test, signal integrity, automated inspection
How We Do It
We partner with industry leaders — National Instruments, Cognex, Micro-Epsilon, Omron and others — so we always have access to the latest hardware and tools. Translation: your problem gets the best available solution, not whatever we happened to stock last quarter.
From a factory floor in Rochester to an R&D lab in New England, a manufacturing plant in Florida, or a test facility in Germany — our systems travel well. We've built automated test applications, SQL Server database backends, Blazor web dashboards, and Azure-hosted applications for clients who needed their data accessible anywhere — not just on the machine sitting next to the device under test.
Sensor Technology
Voltage, temperature, pressure, strain, vibration — if it measures something, we've probably wired it up. We know sensor selection and calibration the way most people know their coffee order.
Data Collection & Storage
NI DAQ hardware, SQL Server databases, Blazor dashboards, Azure-hosted backends — we collect your data, store it properly, and give you a clean interface to actually use it.
Machine Learning & AI
We build prediction, classification, and deep learning models that turn your raw sensor data into actual decisions. Less spreadsheet staring, more actionable insight.
System Integration
LabVIEW, PLC, SCADA, C#, Blazor, Azure — we speak fluent stack. If your test system involves more acronyms than a government memo, you're in the right place.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about LabVIEW test automation, NI hardware platforms, and custom test system development.
Serving the Northeast US, Florida & Nationwide
Headquartered in Victor, NY — minutes from Rochester — with test systems deployed across Western New York, Central New York, New England, Florida, the Midwest, and Europe. Great engineering travels well.