The Network Manager™ Graphical user Interface, GUI, consists of the operator workstation WS500 and the Information Station IS500.

WS500 is the user interface for the Network Manager system and is a proven tool for the demanding real-time control of geographically distributed processes.

In addition, by supporting ABB’s Industrial IT, the WS500 also performs Aspect and Object navigation. This adds more flexibility by making it possible to add object-specific user functionality.

WS500 features:

• State of the art Microsoft Windows look and feel with Multi Document Interface (MDI) support
• Personal on-line configurable menus, toolbars and color palettes included in operator settings
• Unique document concept for combining traditional process displays with web pages and any ActiveX-based components as display documents
• Low bandwidth requirement
• Unique display sub-division and automatic run-time local cashing mechanism for fast call-up times, even over serial modem connections
• Support of all types of Character Unicodes
• Context-sensitive help, on-line help and ToolTips

The WS500 screen shows a geographic world map, a trend display and a web page. An alarm icon indicates if there are active alarms. A menu bar for context sensitive picture navigation is also shown.

Information Station IS500 presents graphical displays from the Network Manager system to web users over both Intranet and Internet. Any web browser supporting Java Applets may be used to present the information. With the IS500, important information is available to internal or external users with security maintained by an authority scheme. The displays and the alarm lists of the WS500 are reused in the IS500 without any engineering effort.

IS500 features:

• Presentation of process displays
• Presentation of alarm and event lists
• On-line help
• No client installation, other than the web-browser