Automation Network Selection

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 161 pages
• Published by: ISA: The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society October 1, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1556178611
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1556178610
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 8.8 ounces

Product Description
Are you trying to make sense of all the different industrial automation networks on the market today? Whether you're a novice industrial network user or someone who simply requirements to brush up on the technology, Automation Network Selection will help you better understand and select the "right" network for a given application.





Industry expert Dick Caro walks you through the various industrial networks (e.g., sensor, fieldbus, control, safety buses, and so on) and then gives you a perspective on the typical applications for industrial automation network technology. The emphasis is on the intended application for each network, rather than on the network protocol that is more typically discussed in most textbooks.





With many projects requiring more than one network application, finding the network that best fits your requirements is no easy task. This book will help get you started on the right path.

Reader Reviews
This book explains the basics of the networks and protocols used in industrial automation. It goes into detail about specific protocols, explaining their intended purpose, how they evolved, and what they're used for today. It explains the models that separate fieldbuses from control networks and where the lines blur. There is good discussion of field control vs distributed control. It explains how redundancy and failsafes come into play with each type of network. I approached this book as an engineer who designs industrial products without any training in the purposes behind the various industrial communication systems. Users of industrial products often understand the relationships between the various standards intuitively but cannot explain it well to a product engineer with little manufacturing experience. This book clears it all up in under 150 pages of easy-to-follow text and diagrams. Anyone who wants to take a couple hours to learn what's behind the apparent hodgepodge of communication standards used in industrial automation should read this book.