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News Release from: ISA (Instrumentation, Systems and Aut Soc) | Subject: Automation Network Selection
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 October 2003
Book explains networks and their
applications
Veteran of industrial automation, author Dick Caro provides a complete overview of industrial networks, including sensor, fieldbus, and control networks, and then explains their applications.
Finding the right network when today's manufacturing processes and controls require multiple network applications presents a significant challenge to automation + control experts ISA's new book Automation Network Selection by Dick Caro helps make sense of all the different industrial automation networks on the market
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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A 45-year veteran of industrial automation, author Dick Caro provides a complete overview of the various industrial networks, including sensor, fieldbus, and control networks, and then explains their typical applications.
He emphasizes the intended application for each network, noting, "Any bus can generally be used for any application; however, stretching a bus technology outside its intended area creates more problems than it solves." Caro ventures far beyond the factory in exploring network technologies, covering Ethernet, LON, and Profibus, as well as explaining building controls such as those that run HVAC, distributed process controls, and Internet issues.
The author even offers reasons for the proliferation of networks that has so complicated the lives of controls technicians and engineers.
An invaluable reference for anyone involved in networking, Automation Network Selection covers the topic from A to Z in a refreshingly unbiased style.
About ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society is a 38,000-member global, nonprofit, educational organization.
The Society fosters advancement in the theory, design, manufacture, and use of sensors, instruments, computers, and systems for measurement and control in a wide variety of applications.
In addition to hosting the largest conferences and exhibitions for instrumentation, systems, and automation in the Western Hemisphere, ISA is a leading technical training organization and a respected publisher of books, magazines, and standards.
ISA also serves the professional development and accreditation needs of Control Systems Engineers (CSE), instrument technicians, and others within the field of instrumentation, systems, and automation. Request a free brochure from ISA (Instrumentation, Systems and Aut Soc) ...
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