04 — Product · PR-570
Network Manager EMS
Control-room software for transmission operators: real-time state estimation, contingency and stability analysis, power flow and optimal power flow, dynamic line ratings and congestion studies, with a companion generation management system for automatic generation control, reserves and economic dispatch. Part of the Network Manager family; runs on premises, in the cloud or hybrid.
// FIG. 04 · Capability coverage
Each tile is an L1; the bar is how many of this product's capabilities realize something beneath it. Our judgment, not a vendor claim.
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People & Workplace
Customer & Market
Products & Services
Operations & Supply
Technology & Data
Resilience & Responsibility
Industry L1s
- Plant Operations0
- Production Planning & Scheduling0
- Manufacturing Quality & Compliance0
- Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement0
- Plant & Process Safety0
- Dealer & Distributor Network0
- Aftermarket & Service Parts0
- Platform Engineering0
- Software Product Release0
- Site Reliability0
- Developer Experience & API Ecosystem0
- Subscription & Tenant Operations0
- Product Analytics & Experimentation0
- Trust & Compliance Assurance0
- Open Source & Community0
- Merchandising & Assortment0
- Store Operations0
- E-commerce & Omnichannel0
- Category & Trade Promotion0
- Loss Prevention0
- Consumer Insights0
- Store Network & Real Estate0
- Returns & Reverse Logistics0
- Network Planning & Engineering0
- Network Build & Field Operations0
- Network Operations & Assurance0
- Subscriber Order & Activation0
- Usage Charging & Subscriber Billing0
- Content & Programming0
- Advertising Sales & Operations0
- Communications Regulatory Obligations0
- Network Planning & Investment0
- Network Construction & Field Work0
- Network Operations & Control0
- Generation & Treatment Operations1
- Metering & Meter Data0
- Utility Customer Service & Billing0
- Energy Supply, Markets & Flexibility0
- Utility Regulation & Resilience0
- Transmission System Operations12
Product capabilities · 8
How to read maturity and confidence
Maturity · how much it covers
- core
- What the product is built around; the capability is covered end to end.
- strong
- Covered well, with a few gaps a buyer would notice.
- partial
- Covers part of the capability; expect to pair it with something else.
- emerging
- New or thin; on the roadmap more than in the product.
Confidence · how well it is evidenced
- Evidence confidence: high
- The vendor's own documentation describes this module doing it.
- Evidence confidence: medium
- Documented, but how far it reaches into the capability is our reading.
- Evidence confidence: low
- Our judgment; we found no public page that confirms it.
- PC-570.10
State Estimation
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreWorks out real-time flows, voltages, phase angles and losses across the transmission network from measurements, as the starting point for every other study.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems ↗ - PC-570.20
Security Analysis
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreRuns power flows for a set of contingencies to find lines and buses that would exceed current or voltage limits.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems ↗ - PC-570.30
Power Flow and Optimal Power Flow
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: coreStudies current and future network states from schedules and forecasts, and sets controllable devices to cut losses while holding voltages within limits.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems ↗ - PC-570.40
Stability Analysis
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongAssesses the system's dynamic behavior to confirm it remains stable under present conditions.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems ↗ - PC-570.50
Dynamic Line Ratings and Congestion Forecasting
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongBrings forecast line ratings into real-time and look-ahead studies, and runs day-ahead and intraday security studies to find congestion before it happens.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems ↗ - PC-570.60
Automatic Generation Control
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreControls participating generators across one or more areas to keep generation, interchange and load balanced.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-generation-management-system-gms ↗ - PC-570.70
Reserves Monitoring and Economic Dispatch
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: strongTracks available operating reserves, assigns generation output economically, and shows interchanges beside generation and reserve levels.
- BC-1590.20.30Operating Reserve Monitoring
- BC-1590.20.20Interchange Scheduling
- BC-1540.10.20Real-Time Plant Dispatch
- PC-570.80
Operator Training Environment
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: partialAn operator training environment that comes with the EMS, where operators practice without touching the live system.
Vendor page: hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems ↗
Sources · checked
The public vendor documentation this mapping is based on. Maturity and confidence are our judgment, not the vendor's claim.
- Network Manager Energy Management System (EMS) | Hitachi Energy hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-energy-management-system-ems
- Network Manager Generation Management System (GMS) | Hitachi Energy www.hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager/network-manager-generation-management-system-gms
- Network Control | Hitachi Energy www.hitachienergy.com/products-and-solutions/grid-and-generation-management-network-manager