HMI/SCADA Software provides historical data organization.
Press Release Summary:
Lookout v5.0 offers historical data viewing and management capabilities in presenting, archiving, and organizing historical data. In addition to saving locally, users can save data to remote server or database as often as they want. Users can also merge historical data for side-by-side analysis. Lookout v5.0 simplifies industrial automation by eliminating programming, scripting, and separate compiling.Original Press Release:
National Instruments Simplifies Historical Data Management with Lookout 5.0
Lookout HMI/SCADA Software Delivers More Historical Data Organization, Presentation Options
AUSTIN, Texas - Jan. 29, 2002 - National Instruments today
announced the newest version of Lookout, the market's easiest to use HMI/SCADA software. Lookout 5.0 features enhanced historical data viewing and management capabilities, delivering a better way to present, archive, and organize historical data.
With the improved historical data viewer in Lookout 5.0, users gain greater control over their user interface and have more options for viewing historical data. For example, a user can specify to see temperature information from only a particular set of channels. Lookout then removes all other information from the screen, displaying only the specified temperature data from the specified channels. The user then can save the view for future reference.
Lookout 5.0 also includes new historical data management features that offer engineers increased flexibility in archiving,
analyzing, and organizing historical data. In addition to saving locally, users now can save data to a remote server or database
as often as they want, safeguarding the data from potential corruption on the local disk to which they are logging. Users also can merge historical data for side-by-side analysis. For example, a user can log two sets of data from two chemical reactors and then combine the data sets to perform comparative analysis. Finally, users now can more easily organize their files by compacting them to save disk space, deleting unwanted information, adding new information, or renaming files.
NI Lookout simplifies industrial automation by eliminating programming, scripting, and separate compiling. With drag-and-
drop application development, users save time and money on overall project costs. Lookout is used in a variety of industrial
applications, from controlling electricity at a power plant to creating a distributed HMI/SCADA system for a batch chemical
process at a chemical or petrochemical plant.
About NI
NI leverages comnmercial technologies, such as industry-standard computers and the Internet, to deliver customer-defined measurement and automation solutions. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 2,800 employees and direct sales
offices in more than 35 countries. NI is increasing the productivity of engineers and scientists worldwide by delivering easy-to-integrate software and modular hardware. For the past three consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 1 00 best companies to work for in America.
Price, Availability, and For More Information
Lookout 5.0 is available in Ql 2002 with prices starting at $795, E905, Y93,000.
