"After 20 years, we've used just about every package out there, yet none remotely approaches the speed and ease that Lookout brings to implementing projects. Objects make all the difference."

- Francis X. Neylon
Industrial Technical Services, Inc.

• Open Connectivity
• Online Configuration
• Distributed Logging
• Distributed Alarms and Events
• NT Service Capability
• Security
• Enterprise (MES/ERP Connectivity)
• Event-Driven Performance
• Visualization

Configure a Process, a Network Connection, and a Web Client in Twelve Easy Steps!
Take a look at how fast and easy Lookout can be. This step-by-step example leads you through the creation of an entire process with the Lookout industrial automation software system.

Open Connectivity

• OPC client and server capabilities
• Drop any ActiveX object (except methods and events) into your Lookout HMI *
• Connect to programming environments, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Java, Java-enabled tools, Borland Delphi, C, and C++
• Connect to a wide variety of National Instruments and third-party hardware

Online Configuration

• Modify the application without interrupting device communications
• Eliminate gaps in data and alarm monitoring
• Develop and modify applications without process downtime

Distributed Logging

• Log and retrieve data from any computer on a network
• Use configuration-based logging tools for instant data logging
• Maintain process history accurately and automatically

Distributed Alarms and Events

• Create an audit trail using event logging
• View and acknowledge alarms and events from anywhere in a network
• Alert a pager, cell phone, or play your own voice messages on alarm conditions
• Use the new Historical Data Viewer to better visualize and manage your data

NT Service Capability

• Able to run Windows 2000/NT/XP service
• Full functionality available independent of login status at workstation

Security

• Lock Lookout so users cannot close, minimize, or exit once it is operating
• Provide read or write access levels to processes, folders, and objects based on security levels
• Activate security based on IP addresses
• Use the same security set up for all clients, including remote Web clients

Enterprise (MES/ERP) Connectivity

• Connect the plant floor to business systems
• Build on standard SQL, OPC, and Web technologies for connectivity
• Retrieve live or historical data from Lookout to any database, spreadsheet, or MES software

Event Driven Performance

• React to events substantially faster than loop-based software
• Poll more than 50,000 I/O points
• Scale the application with little performance loss

Visualization

• Use more than 3,300 built-in graphics
• Enable X-Y motion, resizing, visibility, and dynamic coloring
• Import any bitmap (.bmp) and Windows Metafile (.wmf) graphic
• International character set support

See Also:

• Device Connectivity
• What's New in Lookout 6.0?
• Lookout Industry Solutions
• Lookout Options
• Lookout Protocol Drivers
• Download Lookout White Paper (113 KB PDF)
• Download White Paper - Lookout for Water/Wastewater Industry (372 KB PDF)

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