Industrial Ethernet on the Plant Floor: A Planning and Installation Guide

This book provides guidance on how to select components, layout, install, test, certify, and troubleshoot a network system. It discusses designing industrial physical layers, network architectures, and components. The book educates the reader on the basics of noise, how to mitigate and abate it through installation techniques and selection of components that would provide a level of performance needed in a hostile industrial environment

The major topics include:





 Grounding and Bonding


 IT and Industrial Control Networks


 Environmental Considerations


 MICE Tutorial


 Installation Guidance


 Certification


 Troubleshooting