Network Visibility Increases Industrial System Availability
Why Network Management Is Important
For control engineers, their primary goal is to ensure that they have system availability, but they often do this without focusing on the network status. This is becoming problematic because even though the Industrial Internet of Things is helping to connect more and more devices, it is unfortunately increasing network complexity and introducing new security risks. Without network visibility, it is very difficult to identify the root cause of problems. Control engineers often have to revert to trial and error to get the system back to normal, which is time consuming and troublesome.
What if control engineers had clear visibility of the network status and could quickly identify the root cause of network downtime?
Moxa’s industrial network management software offers visibility of operational technology (OT) that allows network operators to make more informed decisions throughout network deployment, maintenance, and diagnostics. Read on to learn more or download the free trial version to experience MXstudio for yourself.
Get Full Visibility for Your Industrial Networks
MXstudio Industrial Network Management Suite
- Offers intuitive network monitoring and alerts
- Diagnoses network health with event playback and snapshots
- Monitors your networks on the go
- Summarizes the network status on a customized dashboard
- Manages and enhances network device security
Moxa’s Network Management Software Can Help You
Understand Why Our Customers Chose MXstudio
- A Rail Customer
- A Manufacturing Customer
- A Water and Waste Case
Real-time Network Visibility of a Rail Network
A high-speed railway operator built a fiber Ethernet backbone for data transmission between its Operation Management Center and multiple railway stations to ensure high network availability. In order to manage their large-scale networks effectively, the customer chose Moxa's industrial network management software to help their automation engineers view detailed device information quickly. Furthermore, the software allowed them to quickly identify a specific device among the racks of devices, which shortened the amount of time required to perform maintenance as well as minimized downtime.
Integrating Industrial Networks and Enterprise Networks
A communication device manufacturer wanted to integrate their industrial networks and enterprise networks to increase operational efficiency. To achieve this goal, IT engineers needed to manage both enterprise and manufacturing networks at the same time. The customer chose MXview as it provides RESTful API, which allowed the IT engineers to monitor the network from a single monitor. In addition, by deploying industrial-grade devices with fast recovery times, Moxa helped the customer ensure the reliability of their industrial networks.
Increase Network Device Security With Just a Few Clicks
A water and waste system spanned the majority of a European city and was monitorable from an industrial network. The local government wanted to increase the network security in order to keep the infrastructure secure. As the plant manager was not an expert on network security and this project had to be implemented quickly, it was a challenge to ensure that the network security was sufficient in a short period of time. MXview's Security View was the ideal solution because it offered a way for the plant manager to visualize the network security status. Equipped with network visibility, the plant manager could direct resources to the parts of the network that needed additional security features. In addition, MXconfig Security Wizard helped the plant manager to identify the critical security parameters. This information was passed to the control engineers who were able to quickly ensure that the device configurations met the industry standards.
Take a Look Inside
MXstudio Network Management Suite
- An all-in-one toolset for installation, operation, maintenance, and diagnostic stages of the network lifecycle
- MXconfig, MXview, and N-Snap facilitate easy and quick industrial network management
MXview Network Management Software
- Can manage up to 10 sites with a maximum of 20,000 nodes
- Easily integrated into third-party applications with a web widget and RESTful API interface
- A network dashboard to check the network status
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MXconfig Network Configuration Tool
- Configuration is 10 times faster than one-by-one deployment (with 100 switches)
- Link sequence detection eliminates manual configuration errors
- Security Wizard simplifies managing the security settings of network devices
Contact ECS
Your local NZ Moxa distributor and partner for more than 20 years.
ECS is an Official NZ Moxa Distributor and part of the Moxa Technical College, with certified, in-house specialists. As an official NZ distributor, ECS has Moxa Certified Engineers who are fully trained and accredited to assist with network design and complete installation support for your project.