Catching the Process Fieldbus - An Introduction to PROFIBUS for Process Automation

Topics discussed include BUS operations, protocol details, physical layers and networks, network design basics, installation tips and suggestions, commissioning, maintenance, plant asset management, and troubleshooting. All of these topics are designed to speak to the beginner - to take the whole of PROFIBUS as a fieldbus and spread it out for everyone to sample and to investigate. Ron Mitchell, author of PROFIBUS - a pocket guide, recommends it for anyone interested in industrial communications, "Very good book! I particularly like your examples from site visits."