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 LabVIEW is the better choice

• 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.
• Your team already writes itAn existing library of instrument code, and engineers who think in that language, outweigh any feature list, including this one.

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.