Control software

Vijeo Look

Take a look

at the HMI of tomorrow

Choose effective solutions with the
Telemecanique brand

The use of a combination of
Telemecanique products
offers you quality solutions
capable of meeting all your
applications' control and
automation function
requirements

Schneider Electric Industries SAS

www.schneider-electric.com

Art. 74541

February 2004

DIA5ED1040206EN - © 2004 Schneider Electric -

All rights reserved

Get a better look at
your manufacturing
process...

Welcome to the world of Simply Smart* from

Telemecanique.

Data acquisition, processing, visualization and

logging - all these functions are found in Vijeo Look,

the new HMI* software from Telemecanique.

Simple and modular, Vijeo Look is the ultimate

solution for your small to medium sized applications.

It is ideally suited to supervising your control systems

and offers a true window into your machine.

Choosing Vijeo Look from Telemecanique will give

you new insights into your operation.

* Simply Smart: smarter and more intelligent, yet even easier to use.
* HMI: Human Machine Interface.

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...with Vijeo
Look

With products in all sectors of the automation and control

industry, Telemecanique offers a unique range of tailor-

made HMI solutions to ensure your success.

Human machine
dialogue

The know-how
to communicate.

Recognizing today’s industrial trends, Schneider’s HMI offer
incorporates all the latest technological developments.
Acting as an open window into your machine’s control systems,
Telemecanique HMI solutions allow you to leverage your expertise
to improve your productivity. Our products utilize global industry
standards in order to meet both your needs now and in the future.
Choosing Telemecanique means choosing an innovative and coherent
range.

The Vijeo family

A scalable range.

The Vijeo family of HMI products is a homogeneous offer that
complements our high-end SCADA* solution to offer you a clear view
of your applications, no matter what your application. Easy to install,
Vijeo is ideal for standalone HMIs that require integrated logging
and data processing functions. By supporting all Telemecanique PLCs,
including those developed with PL7 or Concept, the Vijeo range
ensures continuous service of your control systems, from the simplest
to the most complex.

Vijeo Look

In the blink
of an eye.

Take a look at the HMI technology of tomorrow. Innovative yet simple,
Vijeo Look is cutting edge SCADA technology that is available today.
Suitable for small and medium applications, as well as easily upgraded
for migration to larger SCADA applications in the future, Vijeo Look
matches itself to your needs perfectly. Vijeo Look is the perfect blend
of Internet and HMI technologies, combining the ease-of-use of a web
browser with the functionality of traditional HMI.

*SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition

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Discover supervision as you’ve never seen it before...

Simple and easy to master, Vijeo Look allows machine

manufacturers to get on with what they do best...designing,

creating, and manufacturing.

Flexible
performance

Consider
your strategy.

Choose Vijeo Look and opt for a high-performance strategy!
With a simple, upgradeable architecture, Vijeo Look adapts to all your
applications. Its performance will energize the smallest applications
and optimize the largest.
Cut your production costs! Vijeo Look’s multi-tiered range means
you get just the right level of performance necessary for your application
- and no more - so you don’t waste money on features and functions
you don’t need.
Save time! Interactive training ensures you get up to speed quickly
and you get right to business increasing your machine’s performance.

Simple to use

Start off like
a winner.

Simplify your life!
To simplify the development of your process, the various objects
needed to create and customize your applications are ready to use
right out of the box. The execution and visualization of Java Bean
maintenance tools will save you precious time, while visualization of
HTML pages gives you access to the web. And use of the latest
multimedia technologies makes your application more attractive and
user-friendly. Making the most of your know-how is like child’s play.

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Vijeo Look

...supervision was
never simpler

Choose your
partners wisely

Look to the future.

Make the most of your machine in the future by choosing Vijeo Look
and Telemecanique today! Vijeo Look is so simple to use thanks to
its integrated services and advanced diagnostic functions. At no extra
cost, Vijeo Look also offers remote maintenance capabilities. Playing
the Vijeo Look card means also playing the partnership card to your
advantage.

Ready-to-use
animations

Available in 2D or 3D,
over one hundred
animated graphics
are ready for saving
in the PLC variables
objects (valves,
reactors,
potentiometers,
display units, etc.).
Simply click with
the mouse, and
the drawings come
alive.

Diagnostics,
monitoring of
your PLCs

Systematic
acknowledgement
of alarms and faults
leads to simple
diagnostic methods,
enabling rapid
troubleshooting and
gains in productivity
and efficiency.

Real-time data server

Pre-configured to work with all Telemecanique PLCs past and present,
this unique and innovative technology of Vijeo Look makes it possible
to retrieve and enhance variables from PL7 and Concept application
databases, thereby reducing the amount of time needed to develop
new applications.

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Vijeo Look

...your imagination
is the only limitation

Just as we marvel at the engineering behind the ancient

pyramids, Vijeo Look delivers a wealth of engineering and

design tools that allow you to benefit from its full potential

without requiring a deep insight into the technology.

An open world

Your imagination
is all that holds
you back.

User-friendly high-color applications!
Get your different worlds communicating between MS-Excel, MS-Word,
Visual Basic ... enhance your applications with interactive windows,
ActiveX, Java Beans … access the Internet. All these possibilities are
opened up with Vijeo Look if you let your imagination take you there.

A free world

Easy integration for
reduced costs.

With all its interoperable functions, Vijeo Look easily integrates into all
your existing applications and reduces your investment costs. It is also
easy to learn, use and customize, thereby reducing your operating
costs. And with its simple architecture, Vijeo Look speeds up
troubleshooting to minimize your maintenance costs.

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A perfect world

Imagine your solution
without limitations.

Vijeo Look makes your development work simpler than you had ever
dreamed. You imagine your applications ... Vijeo Look brings them to
life by taking advantage of the latest Windows technologies and
integrating them with industrial solutions. No more complicated and
time-consuming procedures for production and updating of your
machines. Vijeo Look’s advanced communication functions make
rolling out or updating your projects unbelievably simple. All you have
to worry about is creating your application.

Dare to let go - let Vijeo Look take charge

Vijeo Look includes remote maintenance, even for the smallest
products, making it easy to provide diagnostics, maintenance,
and remote loading of new versions of the HMI/SCADA application
from a remote station. Vijeo Look accompanies you through each step
of your application’s life cycle. Offer more services, and make the most
of your know-how!

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Give free rein
to your
imagination

Open to the world,
Vijeo Look is
compatible with
virtually all industry
standards.
Thanks to the support
of ADO* links and
data processing
using Visual Basic
for Application and
PLC communication
for data backup,
it performs its
supervision role with
the utmost efficiency.

Simplicity

Openness

*ADO: ActiveX Data Objects

Part of
the
Telemecanique
family

In perfect synergy
with other
Telemecanique
components,
Vijeo Look is supplied
with the OPC Factory
Server. This is used
to create HMI/SCADA
applications for
the entire PLC
installed base and
Telemecanique
automation
platforms.
Telemecanique
develops complete,
pre-configured
products of the highest
quality, at the best
price. The combined
Vijeo Look and
Magelis IPC offer
provides simplicity
and power for
a tailor-made solution
to your industrial
supervisory stations.

Developed for our mutual success

The most complete solution on the market, Vijeo Look is distinctive
in many ways. It incorporates JVM*, enabling FactoryCast module
Java Beans to be used. The visualization of HTML pages, Rack and
Alarm Viewers, and animation tables, provide your applications with
an optimum level of diagnostics for the minimum development cost.
For Telemecanique, your success is our goal.

*JVM: Java Virtual Machine

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Vijeo Look

... and life is beautiful

With Vijeo Look, you have found the solution…

the solution to designing and developing the very best

applications without spending a lifetime trying. Choosing

Telemecanique brings the assurance of a promising future

and the promise of more time to do the things you want to

do.

Total security

Find peace of mind.

Vijeo Look’s functions, such as backup of PLC data by simple
configuration, systematic recording of alarms and faults, enhancement
of PLC data with parameters used in production management,
and recognition of user profiles, offer you total traceability and vigilant
security. At every stage of your process, benefit from the visibility,
optimum control and security required for manufacturing your products
to the highest standards.

Easy of use

No worries.

There are 6 products in the Vijeo Look offer to make your life easier.
They are easy to order and can be upgraded to suit your needs.
Available throughout the world, Vijeo Look offers you a lot of services
to optimize it use (training, FAQ, update, technical support)

A valued
partnership

Get more.

Telemecanique, innovator of many automation solutions, wants to
become your trusted partner. With our many integrated solutions you
will have a single point of contact for all your automation and HMI
solutions.
So be certain to make the right decision... let Telemecanique be your
partner, and be confident as you move forward.

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Vijeo Look

Optimizes the life cycle
of your machine

Design

Schneider Electric has designed Vijeo Look to make application design
fast and easy. You can quickly retrieve programming language
symbols
to develop the program and even visualize the result simultaneously.

Set up

With its application broadcast functions, Vijeo Look minimizes the user’s
investment.
In fact, no special equipment is needed to load an application.

Operation

With general characteristics conforming to users’ expectations,
Vijeo Look features as standard numerous functions for performing
diagnostics such as Diag Buffer on Premium (integrated Diag Viewer),
and display of HTML pages integrated in FactoryCast modules
(RackViewer).

Maintenance

Incorporating remote monitoring and application transfer tools, Vijeo Look
combines all the functions that are useful and necessary for remote
maintenance, in particular for updating remote applications.

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