LookoutDirect - PC-based HMI Software

Would you like high performance HMI features at a great price?

LookoutDirect is a PC-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) software package from National Instruments (based on their Lookout® object-based automation software). LookoutDirect does everything you need an HMI to do, at half the price charged by most of our competitors.

LookoutDirect is a feature-packed 500-I/O version of the original package and includes drivers for the top 10 PLC/RTU products, plus our own DirectLOGIC driver. With all of these features, LookoutDirect is clearly the best PC- based HMI solution for all ranges of PLC control systems.

LookoutDirect has an easy-to-use configuration package that requires no programming or scripting. The object-oriented, event-driven architecture provides an outstanding graphical interface to your process.

You can easily create graphical representations of devices and link these objects to your PLC system for real-time data acquisition, graphical animation, alarm generation, report printing, and network connection to your business system.

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LookoutDirect features include:

  • Supports 500 I/O
  • Huge object library
  • DirectLOGIC serial and Ethernet PLC drivers
  • 10 major competitive drivers
  • Alarming
  • Data logging
  • Trending
  • Expressions/ formulas
  • Report generation
  • Recipes
  • Security levels
  • Windows® connectivity
  • Networking
  • Telemetry

NOTE: Version 4.5 of LookoutDirect adds several objects and features.
If you have an earlier version of LookoutDirect and need this additional functionality, you may want to consider an upgrade package.
If you don't need the newest features, there is no need to upgrade.


Seven new objects:

  • Loader
  • Monitor
  • Radio Buttons
  • Sequencer
  • Waveform
  • Sample
  • Sample Text

Newest functions:

  • Browse-and-select networking for easily connecting multiple LookoutDirect stations
  • Distributed data logging - save and retrieve data anywhere on a network
  • Distributed alarming - view and acknowledge alarms from anywhere in the network
  • OPC Server - LookoutDirect automatically presents itself as an OPC server on the network allowing data access from any compatible OPC Client.