BenchVue Lab Management and Control Solution

Keysight BenchVue Lab

Management and Control Solution

Providing efficient and centralized lab control for educators

Hands-on learning using real, industry-standard bench instruments is one of the most valuable experiences universities and teaching institutes can offer students, ensuring that the next generation of engineers get practical knowledge using the same industry-grade equipment that they would use when they graduate and are out in the industry. But with dozens of test benches, each equipped with multiple instruments, educators managing an engineering lab must spend significant amounts of time manually setting up test benches, configuring and updating the firmware for the instruments, and tracking the lab’s assets for calibration and repair.

Now, with Keysight BV9111EDU BenchVue Lab Management and Control Solution, educators can spend less time on manual set up and tracking and focus on what really matters – providing high-quality teaching. This solution is built upon the BenchVue software platform, leveraging its strengths such as easy control, data capture, logging and report generation, all without requiring programming. Consisting of the LAN-based BV011xB BenchVue Lab apps and the BV9001B BenchVue education control collection, Keysight BenchVue Lab Management and Control Solution is a lab management solution that not only provides centralized control for educators to seamlessly connect and monitor all the instruments within lab, but also serves as a powerful teaching tool for instruction laboratories. 

Benefits for using BenchVue Lab Management and Control Solution

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

BenchVue Lab provides overview connection statuses 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 provides easier way to update firmware for all the connected Keysight instruments. 

• Enhance the learning experience of students by utilizing this solution as an education lab teaching software platform

The BenchVue instrument control apps allow users to easily control, analyze and build custom automated sequences with BenchVue Test Flow. Full desktop and application sharing allow for easy remote monitoring and student assistance in the test lab. And 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 solution into the existing lab setup

This solution 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. 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 license bundling the BenchVue Education Lab and Control Collection provides, which includes:

• One BenchVue Lab manager app license

• 50 BenchVue Lab client app licenses

• 50 BenchVue Education Control Collection network licenses

• And unlimited one-year student licenses, allowing students to access the BenchVue Education Control Collection apps on their personal devices