| This is a comprehensive book covering the essentials of troubleshooting and problem solving of industrial data communications systems including areas such as RS-232, RS-485, industrial protocols such as Modbus, fiber optics, industrial Ethernet, TCP/IP, DeviceNet and Fieldbus protocols such as Profibus and Foundation Fieldbus. It can be used very beneficially in conjunction with the IDC Technologies two-day workshop on the topic.
We have taken all the key troubleshooting and problem-solving skills from experienced engineers and distilled these into one hard-hitting course to enable the user to solve real industrial communications problems.
The overall objective of the book is to help identify, prevent and fix common industrial communications problems. The focus is ‘outside the box’. The emphasis is practical and on material that goes beyond typical communications issues. Also, on theory and focuses on providing with the necessary toolkit of skills in solving industrial communications problems whether it be RS-232/RS- 485, Modbus, Fieldbus and DeviceNet or a local area network such as Ethernet. Industrial communications systems are being installed throughout the plant today from connecting simple instruments to programmable logic controllers to PCs throughout the business part of the enterprise. Communications problems range from simple wiring problems to intermittent transfer of protocol messages. |