National Instruments Receives ISO 9002 Certification

Austin, Texas - Oct. 6, 1995 - National Instruments - The Virtual
Instrumentation Company - announced today that it has been approved to
international quality standard ISO 9002 by Lloyd's Register Quality
Assurance. ISO 9002 prescribes conformance to 19 different quality system
requirements in manufacturing, service, delivery, and installation. 

"We used a team approach to meet the requirements set out in ISO 9002,"
said William Nowlin, Chief Quality Officer at National Instruments. "The
effort was headed by the ISO 9000 implementation team, which was made up
of representatives from manufacturing, sales, applications engineering,
and engineering. The team helped document and implement quality assurance
policies and procedures. Documentation is necessary because it helps us
achieve repeatable quality. Documentation also helps our customers and ISO
auditors understand how our quality system operates and gives them a
benchmark to measure our progress. These reasons, however, are secondary
to the real-time organizational benefits of having an effective and fully
functional quality system built on the ISO 9000 requirements." 

About National Instruments

National Instruments, headquartered in Austin, Texas, manufactures software
and hardware products for PCs and workstations that scientists and
engineers worldwide use to build virtual instrumentation systems. These
systems are used for research and industrial applications such as
automated testing, laboratory automation, advanced research, industrial
control, factory automation, physiological monitoring, numerical analysis,
and data visualization. 

National Instruments stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System
under the symbol NATI. Further information on National Instruments may be
obtained from the company's SEC filings or by directly contacting the
company's Investor Relations Department at (512) 349-5090. 

For More Information

For more information, contact National Instruments, 6504 Bridge Point
Parkway, Austin, Texas 78730-5039, (512) 794-0100. Or call toll free in
the U.S. and Canada at (800) 433-3488, fax (512) 794-8411, e-mail
info@natinst.com. Readers can also access information through the National
Instruments InstrumentationWeb at http://www.natinst.com/ 
 
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