Abstract. A new technique was developed to record and in situ process the data on the evolution of multiwall carbon nanotubes polymer (MWCNT-polymer) nanocomposite field emitters. It includes multichannel acquisition system of current voltage characteristic (IVC), vacuum level, temperature and mass-spectrum data with computer on-line processing of these data based on the LabVIEW program. We obtained the time dependence of the field enhancement factor, the number of emission sites and kinetics of main volatile products during field emission process.