The Network Manager Graphical User Interface, is a proven high performance, high scalability and high configurability tool for the demanding real-time control of geographically distributed processes with support for large worldmap displays.
The WS500 can be used both on local and remote workstations. The latter is based on a Microsoft Remote Web Desktop solution.
State-of-the-art Microsoft Windows Vista look-and-feel with support for:
- Advanced Visualization techniques like Dynamic Contour Coloring integrated with worldmap displays and map server based display backgrounds
- Advanced Alarm and Event list filtering with ability to change filter while list is presented to for example insert and/or remove stations
- Support for dynamic attachment of information to displays by text and icons with support for attaching documents with text, images and hyperlinks
- Drag and drop support of objects to for example selecting objects for trending
- Easy and quick point and click query definitions for on-line definitions of simple database queries
- Personal on-line configurable menus, toolbars and color palettes
- Personal operator settings with named window and display configurations
- Document concept for combining traditional process displays with web pages and any Microsoft .NET and ActiveX based components embedded as display documents
- Embedding of Microsoft .NET and ActiveX user controls as display elements by configuration using late binding and hence, no programming needed to add new custom display elements
- Component based design enabling adding new functions like dialogs and toolbar items as plugin components without any code changes of the existing product
- Low bandwidth requirement for support of mobile units and wireless communication
- Unique display sub-division and automatic run-time local cashing mechanism for fast call-up times also for displays with up to 1 million dynamic display elements
- Context-sensitive help, On-line help and Tooltip
- Multiple monitors for each workstation
- Direct interaction with displays on Large Screen display wall