August 3, 1992 -- Austin, TX - National Instruments announced today an
addition to its executive staff to prepare the company for meeting
criteria of ISO 9000 certification. On July 22, the National Instruments
Board of Directors approved the establishment of an executive officer to
emphasize quality throughout company operations and manage its effort to
secure ISO 9000 certification by late 1993.

William Nowlin, a founder of the company and recently vice president of
engineering, was appointed to the new position of chief quality officer.
Jack MacCrisken was promoted to vice president of engineering. Nowlin has
overall responsibility for coordinating and providing leadership for all
activities of the quality system. He also has direct authority and
responsibility for ensuring that the requirements of ISO 9000 are
implemented and maintained throughout the company. MacCrisken oversees all
hardware and software engineering operations of the company. Both Nowlin
and MacCrisken report directly to Dr. James Truchard, president and CEO.

The Importance of Quality 

"Technology companies in the 1990s must dedicate themselves to quality
throughout the organization, in product design, manufacturing,
distribution, and technical support," noted Truchard today in a
company-wide meeting at corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas. "To do
this, we must set up a structure where quality is imbued in our products
at every stage of development, and most importantly, delivered to our
customers. This new organizational structure, which was designed to be
compatible with the guidelines from the ISO 9000 standards, will assure
that we strive to achieve our very best, and deliver products and service
of unequaled quality to our customers."

ISO 9000 is a series of international standards for total quality
management. Certification assures customers of an "operating" quality
management system. The standards are used to judge how well a business is
run in delivering a consistent quality product, and deals with all aspects
of the business, including how well quality is controlled, managed, and
improved.

"Our continued growth in international sales, especially in Europe, has
made ISO 9000 certification a must to achieve our corporate goals,"
continued Truchard. "We have a very strong, energetic team, which will
allow us to continue to grow, all the while maintaining the highest
possible quality standards."

About the Company 

National Instruments Corporation, which is privately held, is one of the
fastest growing high technology companies in Austin. It has over 700
employees worldwide, 22 direct sales offices in the U.S. and two in
Canada, and 13 branch offices in Europe and the Pacific Rim. The company
was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. It manufactures
hardware and software products that engineers and scientists use to build
integrated instrumentation systems using industry-standard computers such
as the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, and Sun SPARCstation. The company's
award-winning LabVIEW and LabWindows application software packages offer
intuitive graphical user interfaces for control and data presentation, as
well as extensive libraries for data acquisition and data analysis.

These products are used worldwide in laboratory automation, automated test,
process monitoring and control, factory automation, robotics, image
processing, vision inspection, physiological monitoring, and personal
instrumentation.

For More Information For more information, please contact the company at
6504 Bridge Point Parkway, Austin, TX 78730-5039, (512) 794-0100. Call
toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at (800) 433-3488. Fax: (512) 794-8411.

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