Diagram Generation for Network Management

ArcGIS Schematics is an ArcGIS extension that enables users to generate, visualize, and manipulate diagrams from network data in the geodatabase.

ArcGIS Schematics provides the tools to operate, manage, and view any network in a wide variety of geographic and schematic representations. All types of graphic representations—geographic, geoschematic, and schematic (diagrams, trees, matrixes, etc.)—are managed. ArcGIS Schematics helps create automatic schematics of networks and manage consistency between geographic and schematic views.

The ArcGIS Schematics graphic manipulation and network formatting capabilities, combined with advanced refinement tools, allow the sophisticated manipulation and analysis of network objects; this includes horizontal or vertical alignment of nodes, symbology and label placement, intelligent subnetwork movement, and connectivity. In addition, ArcGIS Schematics is independent of the data model and automatically generates schematic representations that are created and managed within ArcGIS.

ArcGIS Schematics automates the generation of schematic diagrams from geographic data. This means that as data changes in the geographic database, the schematic diagrams are automatically updated.

Use ArcGIS Schematics to

• Automatically generate schematics from complex networks.
• Generate outside and inside plant schematics.
• Check network connectivity.
• Perform quality control of network data.
• Optimize network design and analysis.
• Monitor network status.
• Evaluate network forecast and planning (modeling, simulation, comparative analysis).
• Dynamically interact with GIS through a schematic view.
• Perform commercial and marketing analysis.

Schematic users manage many kinds of physical and logical networks including electric power, traffic lights, delivery rounds, computers, and so forth. Schematics and diagrams are produced by database designers and network administrators for engineering, construction, and operation purposes.

ArcGIS Schematics has useful applications in the following markets:

• Electric and Gas
  Transmission
  Distribution
  SCADA
  Outage/Leakage management
  
• Water/Wastewater
  Transmission
  Distribution
  Outage/Leakage management
  
• Telecommunications
  Copper
  Fiber
  Cable
  Mobile
  Outside plant/Inside plant
  
• Transportation
  Railroads
  Mass transit
  Airports and water ports
  Fleet managers
  
• Petroleum/Pipeline
  Automated mapping facilities management
  Route, planning, and construction
  Risk management
  
• Homeland Security
  Logical interdependencies
  Physical interdependencies
  Mixed logical and physical interdependencies
  
• Organizations wanting to represent spatial and nonspatial interdependencies as diagram