Keysight BenchVue Lab

Keysight BenchVue Lab

Introduction

Keysight’s BenchVue software platform comes with an intuitive interface and removes the need to program, making it simple to control, analyze measurements and quickly build automated tests with Keysight instruments. The BenchVue Lab application builds upon this foundation and is designed as a lab management solution, providing centralized instrument lab configuration, data logging, instrument mass firmware update and automation for educators managing teaching labs.

This solution consists of the Manager and Client apps – the Manager app acts as the main software application installed on the lab administrator’s PC for centralized control and management, while the Client app runs on test bench PCs and connects all the instruments at individual test benches. 

BenchVue Lab

Key Features and Benefits

Streamline and simplify lab management, saving lab administrators and educators time and freeing them to focus on teaching.

BenchVue Lab provides overview connection status of all instruments via a customizable home screen with widget control, and allows administrators to configure the measurement settings of all instruments at once, all from a single admin PC. With this single software platform, administrators also can easily track asset inventories; changes to the asset list – such as when instruments are sent for calibration or removed from the lab on loan – are automatically updated in software’s lab configuration status. It also includes Keysight instruments mass update feature. 

Enhance the learning experience of students by utilizing BenchVue Lab as an education lab teaching software platform.

Full desktop and BenchVue application sharing allow for easy remote monitoring and student assistance in the test lab. With the BenchVue Lab client app installed at each test bench computer, students can easily control instruments, log data and screen shots, and automatically join lab sessions. 

Easily integrate the software into the existing lab setup.

BenchVue Lab supports over five hundred Keysight test and measurement instruments, and will also connect to non-Keysight test instruments that are compliant with the VISA connection protocol or IEEE-488 standards. Together with an intuitive GUI and the ability to import CSV files, BenchVue Lab enables educators to quickly set up and configure large labs.

Save on investment.

Educators can take advantage of the BenchVue Education Lab and Control Collection bundle, which consists of: 

• One BenchVue Lab manager app license, which acts as the main software application installed on the administrator’s PC for centralized control and management

• Fifty BenchVue Lab client app licenses, which runs on test bench PCs and connects all the instruments at individual test benches

• Fifty BenchVue EDU network licenses, which allows access to the Pro versions of thirteen control, automation and analysis apps on the BenchVue software platform

• And unlimited student licenses  

Lab System Setup

A typical lab setup includes an admin PC installed with BenchVue Lab – Manager software and a number of test benches (BenchVue Lab can support up to a maximum of 100 benches). Each test bench may be equipped with up to 6 instruments. The instruments on the test benches can be connected directly to the admin PC in a LAN system via a multiple-port network switch or gateway. In an alternative lab setup, each test bench may also include a Bench PC, which may be a fixed desktop or a student’s mobile PC. Each of the Bench PC is installed with the BenchVue – Client software that are readily connected to the BenchVue Lab – Manager which acts as the server.