LabVIEW on Tablet PC with XP on it

[Mandar]

Hi, I have an application that uses NI PACs. The customer has requested that the application have a mobile control through a tablet PC having Windows XP and running LabVIEW executables on it (no code development on this PC). The LabVIEW on the tablet PC will act as a sort of hand held HMI. The application on it is going to be simple start/stop and parameter display operations. Can we have such an arrangement? I am planning on using the LabVIEW 8.6 version. What problems should I expect? Thanks in advance... Regards...

[paulengr]

Shouldn't be much trouble as far as LabView other than the fact that if you haven't used LabView before, you are in for quite a learning curve. It is significantly different from most other systems. The biggest problem I see is according to NFPA 79, you've got a safety issue to contend with. If you've got a remote control, what happens if you lose radio communication or the communication is garbled? Second, if there are multiple remotes, it becomes necessary to establish which operator station is in control. By the way, the way that crane companies deal with this is that loss of communication is treated identical to an E-Stop situation.