Industrial HiVision - Introduction

If your SCADA systems are the brain of your automation environment, and your PLCs are the muscles, then your network is the nervous system linking everything together. For any high-value automation system a network failure is catastrophic. Financial and business-impact consequences can be enormous.

With the deployment of Industrial Ethernet, it is now more important than ever to have detailed and accurate knowledge about your network topology and performance.

Industrial HiVision, the market-leading industrial network management software from Hirschmann, gives you just that. In whatever format is most user-friendly for your automation operators.

Industrial HiVision provides:

• Colour coded status depiction. User benefit: Industrial HiVision enables you to see at a glance the status of your entire Industrial Ethernet network, an individual network segment, a specific network device, and even a parameter within a device, such as port link state, power supply, temperature, link redundancy, or link bandwidth utilisation.
• A graphical user interface, which allows you to visualise the precise physical layout of your network, in multiple levels. User benefit: Industrial HiVision avoids the time-critical scenario of "OK, I know this device has failed, but where exactly is it?"
• Comprehensive event logs. User benefit: Industrial HiVision provides information about what happened, when it happened, and who dealt with it.
• Client / Server architecture. User benefit: You are not limited to a single supervision terminal in a single location. An unlimited number of clients can access management information from one Industrial HiVision server; using SNMP, OPC, ActiveX, a web browser, or directly from your SCADA system.

To find out why Industrial HiVision from Hirschmann is the only Industrial Ethernet network management platform that can offer in-depth information, intuitively, in the format and supervision environment you want, please look around this site.

And of course, Hirschmann is proud and confident of its product. So anyone can download a free thirty-day trial of Industrial HiVision, without requiring "expert advice" or being hassled by a sales person.