NEWS RELEASE – Feb. 9, 2005 – National Instruments, a leader in virtual instrumentation, today announced that EE Times magazine named it an Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) award finalist for Company of the Year 2005. This award recognizes top engineering companies for excellence in business practices, breakthrough innovations and contributions to the community. “EE Times is proud to recognize National Instruments as a finalist in the ‘Company of the Year’ category for the ACE Awards,” said Paul Miller, vice president and group publisher of CMP Media Electronics Group.
“A blue-ribbon judging panel of industry luminaries selected NI as a finalist based on its professionalism in staff development, customer focus, technical excellence and profitable growth.” NI released a record number of new products in 2004, including major additions to its LabVIEW and data acquisition product lines and two new product lines, NI CompactRIO and SignalExpress, which extended the company’s reach into new application areas. These and hundreds of other new products introduced in 2004 contributed to NI delivering its 27th year of growth in the company’s 28-year history. “We are honored that EE Times chose National Instruments as a finalist for this award,” said Dr. James Truchard, NI CEO, president and cofounder.
“It is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our management team and employees, who continually turn out quality products, work to meet the needs of our customers and make NI a fun and successful company through solid execution and enthusiasm.”Truchard leads NI with a 100-year plan that equally balances customer, employee, shareholder and supplier success. Employee success is at the center of the 100-year plan because it directly affects the achievement of the other three groups. NI hires the best and brightest employees, creates a superior work environment for those employees and provides the tools, resources and training opportunities to grow their talents. As a result, NI has appeared on FORTUNE magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work For list for six consecutive years.
EE Times will announce final winners for this award at the first annual awards gala during CMP Media’s Embedded System Conference in San Francisco in March.
About National Instruments
National Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,400 employees and direct operations in approximately 40 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries.
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