Plant floor staff are being challenged with understanding how connected devices impact automation operations and IT-specific jobs are decreasing. This is causing a knowledge gap between IT and OT professionals. Does your plant floor staff need an easy to use, intuitive tool that isn’t targeted to IT experts?

During this session we’ll share a new tool that can help you get insight into the performance of your network operations by getting a closer look at your connected devices on the plant floor.

This new tool can help you:

• Monitor the health of your network in the context of your plant floor assets
• Increase the visibility of automation assets on your network
• Simplify the troubleshooting process and quickly identify network root cause issues
• Improve overall automation equipment efficiency

FEATURES

• Generates an overall topology and a device-centric view of plant floor assets for increased network visibility
• Identifies plant floor assets using SNMP, PROFINET and CIP™ protocols
• Captures managed switch level alarms and events in real-time for more precise troubleshooting
• Provides historical data retention for analysis
• Offers configuration templates and plug and play support of Stratix® managed switches for simplified deployment and maintenance
• Automatic inventory discovery