Ganter Lab and LabVIEW

What Ganter Lab is

• It runs on your own machineA desktop application you install on the station. Devices, dashboards, history and users live there, and your process data never has to leave the building.
• Devices are set up in formsNative drivers for Modbus, OPC UA, S7, Rockwell, BACnet and more. Address a tag, scale it into engineering units, and an embedded OPC UA server publishes the result to whoever needs it.
• Dashboards, logic and records in one appScreens are assembled by dragging. Variables, actions, triggers and alarms are written in plain JavaScript. Every run records itself, and becomes an export or a report carrying your logo.
• One license per station, nothing lockedEvery feature works without a license: the runtime pauses on a timer until you restart it. A station license removes that limit. No tiers, no modules to add.

What LabVIEW is

Only what is public and slow to change is written here: what the product is for, how it is licensed and where it runs. Features and prices move on their own, so confirm the current ones with its vendor.

• It is a graphical programming environment for test and measurement, from National Instruments, and it is at its strongest driving that vendor's own measurement hardware.
• It is a paid product licensed per seat, sold in its current catalogue as a subscription, with a community edition offered for non commercial use.
• It runs on the engineer's own computer, and code written there can also be deployed to that vendor's real time and FPGA targets.

Where Ganter Lab is the better choice

• The job is supervision, not programmingDevices, tags, screens, alarms, users and reports are set up in the interface, so a bench goes on screen without a development project around it.
• The devices are industrialControllers, meters, drives and building equipment speak Modbus, OPC UA, S7, Rockwell or BACnet, and those are native drivers here rather than something to add on.
• The record is part of the productRuns, occurrences, operators and samples are recorded as they happen, and a report or a label comes out of the same run without a second tool.

When LabVIEW makes more sense

• You are driving NI measurement hardwareAcquisition boards, modular instruments and instrument drivers from that vendor are supported there first and best, and that catalogue has decades behind it.
• The measurement itself is the hard partCustom signal processing, tight instrument sequencing and analysis that has to be written rather than configured belong in a programming environment, not in a settings screen.
• You need real time or FPGA executionGanter Lab is a supervisory application on a Windows machine. It watches, records and commands; it does not replace a deterministic target.