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Lookout Basics Course

The hands-on Lookout Basics course teaches you to use Lookout to develop HMI/SCADA applications to control and monitor manufacturing and process control applications.

Audience: 

  • New Lookout users

  • Users and technical managers evaluating Lookout in purchasing decisions

  • Users developing HMI/SCADA

After attending this course you will be able to: 

  • Use Lookout to reliably control and monitor a wide variety of industrial applications

  • Retrieve live or historical data from Lookout to any database, spreadsheet, or MES software

  • Monitor and control your process using a Web browser

  • Configure system alarm and event processing, and security levels

  • Trend the data logged and embed trend charts in a Web browser

  • View and control I/O points anywhere on the network using TCP/IP

  • Create an audit trail using event logging

  • Alert a pager or cell phone on alarm conditions

  • Protect your process from computer failure

  • Use integrated SPC tools in your application

Prerequisites: 

  • Experience using Microsoft Windows operating system

  • Programming experience useful, but not essential

You will cover:

Introduction to Lookout

  • Overview of the architecture and environment

  • Lookout application files

Getting Started

  • Creating and connecting objects

  • Displaying data members on panels

  • Editing shortcuts

Drivers and Databases

  • Understanding COMSUB

  • Changing serial port settings

  • Serial port parameters

  • Creating and configuring protocol driver objects

  • Editing object databases

  • Import and export databases

Control Panels

  • Panel object class and panel switching

  • Special considerations for "home panel"

  • Printing panels

  • Panel resolution considerations

Graphics and Animation

  • Displaying static and dynamic graphics

  • Gauge object class

  • Display logical signals

  • Multi-state object class

  • Spinner object class

  • DialGauge object class

  • Importing custom graphics

  • Graphic file type considerations

Control Logic

  • Using control objects

  • Handling alarms

  • Database-generated alarms

  • Alarm object class and alarm groups

  • Alarm priorities, display options, filters

Security

  • Control and viewing security

  • Action verification

  • Establishing user accounts

Data Logging

  • Event logger

  • Logging to spreadsheets

  • Citadel threaded database logger

Data Trending

  • Using HyperTrends

  • Defining HyperTrends

SQL

  • Overview of SQL

  • Threads table

  • Data transforms

  • SQL examples

Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)

  • Overview of DDE

  • Lookout as DDE server

  • Lookout as DDE client

  • Lookout in DDE peer-to-peer

NI Course  910510 3  days FEE: $1595


This course is available on the following dates in:
2008
    Pittsburgh     Cleveland     Philadelphia
   Scheduled by request.    Scheduled by request.    Scheduled by request.
     

Courses are regularly offered throughout the year. Customized courses and alternative training schedules are available either on-site or at our permanent facility. Course descriptions and current course schedules are available upon request.


Click here to Register on line
or call 724-942-6330.
We accept PO, MC, VISA, AMEX.
Weekend/evening courses available.