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Panduit Corp., a global provider of Industrial Automation Infrastructure solutions, announced it has completed the acquisition of IntraVUE by Network Vision Inc. This acquisition adds to the Panduit Industrial Automation Infrastructure offerings to its customer base with a tool for visualization and diagnostics of Industrial Ethernet control networks.
Automation networks are susceptible to interruptions, which can result in unscheduled downtime and lost production. This makes it important for manufacturing plants to deploy tools that are designed specificaly to detect network interruptions. These tools must be specifically designed to identify and report network interruption information that helps to minimize or eliminate plant-wide network downtime.
IntraVUE is a tool used globally by industrial control personnel to help to maximize network uptime for manufacturing plants that use Ethernet technologies as a part of their controls and automation network. This tool provides network diagnostic capabilities in addition to real-time visualization and monitoring of the Industrial Ethernet network, helping manufacturers proactively improve the uptime of their Industrial Ethernet infrastructure.
Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group, commented, "With the trend towards convergence of operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT), it is more critical than ever that these converged Ethernet networks that intertwine plant automation systems with business systems have the visualization and diagnostic tools able to provide real-time monitoring and servicing capabilities to ensure continuous uptime. Panduit's acquisition of IntraVUE will provide its customers a window into its physical infrastructure solutions that will help manufacturers avoid or shorten unscheduled downtime, which can often provide an immediate return of investment the first time downtime is prevented or substantially reduced."
Keywords: Industrial Automation Infrastructure, Visualization, Diagnostics, Industrial Ethernet, Control Networks, ARC Advisory Group.