Lookeen for Manufacturing & Research
Specifications, CAD data, test reports, source code and the project correspondence around them grow for years on drives and in mailboxes. Lookeen searches all of it by file name and content – in one step.
The biggest challenges in manufacturing and research
Experience is retiring, data keeps growing, and know-how has to stay demonstrably protected.
Experience is retiring
The baby boomers are leaving engineering, production and the lab. Why a part was designed the way it was, or how a test went, often only lives in old emails and project folders.
Data in many systems
Project drives with hundreds of thousands of files, drawings, test reports, data sheets and approvals by email. Next to PLM and ERP, much knowledge stays unstructured.
Protecting trade secrets
Trade secret law only protects know-how you guard with reasonable measures, and you have to be able to show them. Design data must never end up in public AI services.
Evidence for audits and customers
Quality management, complaints and customer audits require test reports, revisions and correspondence to be produced quickly.
How Lookeen helps
Lookeen makes project knowledge in drives and mailboxes findable without it ever leaving your network.
Project knowledge across decades
Network drives, Exchange, Microsoft 365 and old PST archives appear in one result list, so you find the reasoning behind a decision made ten years ago.
Almost 100 file formats
Lookeen indexes Office, PDF and text formats as well as CAD files, diagrams, archives, images and source code. You decide which types are searched by content.
Part numbers and technical terms
Filters for file type, path, date or sender, plus wildcards, fuzzy search and proximity operators, help with part numbers, standards and variants.
Lookeen AI for reports and changes
Have long test reports summarized, show the differences between two revisions of a document or build a timeline for a complaint, with a link to every source.
Know-how stays in-house
Lookeen Server and Lookeen AI can run entirely on-premises with local language models. Customer data is never used for training.
Slow networks taken into account
Indexing can be throttled, paused or stopped automatically on slow connections, including between sites.
Protecting your know-how
Reasonable secrecy measures apply to your search too: your data never leaves the building.
- On-premises: With Lookeen Server, the index stays on your own drives. Indexed content never leaves your network.
- Access as before: Results are filtered by the rights in Active Directory, the file system and Exchange – department folders stay department folders.
- AI with local models: Lookeen AI works with language models in your own infrastructure – documents never leave your network. AI is off by default and only enabled when an administrator chooses to; customer data is never used for training. Learn more
The right fit
Lookeen comes as a single-workstation solution and as a central server solution. Here is how they fit you.
Lookeen Server
For sites and teams: a central index across file servers, Exchange and Microsoft 365, accessed in the browser, the client or Outlook.
Lookeen Desktop
For individual engineers, researchers and small teams: search local files, network drives and Outlook on your own workstation.