One of the many advantages we’ve found in supplying Advantech products is the company’s open communications with the IT professionals who use their components. For example, through its close attention to and follow up on user feedback, 
Advantech learned that a number of users were installing its ADAM Data Acquisition modules in their small base projects, prompting it to address applicability of its ADAMView software to projects where the higher cost of human-machine interface software could not be justified.
ADAMView, Advantech’s ADAM Data Acquisition software, was designed specifically for application to low-volume ADAM projects, providing drivers and a 150 physical-points database to cover all control and monitoring functions, yielding a low-cost, simple-to-use SCADA solution for its ADAM I/O series components.
The advantages of deployment of ADAMView to small base projects are many.
- The software utilizes the familiar Windows graphical interface, easing the configuration learning curve.
- Integration of BasicScript into its kernel makes it is easy to design custom applications, supplying more than 600 commands and allowing the designer to share data with MS Access and Excel, among other applications.
- The graphical wizards simplify set up of an operator interface that is ideal for the given application
- Its modular format allows fine tuning of the properties needed for each task.
ADAMView’s system requirements are modest, running on Intel Pentium 200 MHz or higher and requiring RAM of 64 MB and disk space of just 20 MB. ADAMView supports Advantech’s ADAM-4000/5000 series programmable automation controllers and I/O modules.