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In industrial application, the production plants are often at different sites and operated by different customers. Establish access to the plant in maintenance or support cases is often time-consuming and costly on customer and operator side. Furthermore, connectivity between the plants cross-customer is difficult to control. The Connectivity Suite solves these issues and even more.
Plant has connectivity issues and a direct access to the device to troubleshoot the issue is required. Therefore, the Connectivity Suite provides:
Whenever a connectivity issue occurs the network administrator will be informed via the user interface of the Connectivity Suite about the device or network which has connectivity issues. The service technician can access via VPN the device to execute the troubleshooting procedure on the device as illustrated in the example image below:
Ensure that plants which are installed at different customers sites do not connect with each. However still required to do massdeployments of firmware or configuration updates cross customer. Therefore, the Connectivity Suite provides:
The Connectivity Suite establishes a reliable and secure connection and separation of your plants within the configured networks. OAT-Software and configuration updates can be scheduled so that they’re executed automatically at the desired time as illustrated in the example image below: