[iancmceachern]

Most things running labview for critical applications like you mention use labvew to write the program and then send the program to a embedded target device that actually runs it.

Rarely anymore do we have a PC with a bunch or wires coming out running your factory.

It's stuff like this NI compactrio:

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/compactrio.html?cid=PSEA-7013q000...

You create and debug the labview program on your pc, you then compile and send it to the compactrio device, which itself runs rtos Linux and then runs your compiled code.