Industrial Network Basics: Practical Guides for the Industrial Technician!

A complete summary of networking technologies in the industrial setting, at the same time providing depth at key areas. The author knows those crucial crux points that get you the 'a-ha!' effect. Well done. Intense yet easy to read and follow. Not for someone just starting in industrial networks.

Some good detail, useful resource.

Good review of the current state of Industrial Networking. Covers the past & present of networking for the beginning student without getting bored with all the theory, formulas, etc. Consider this as the "get it done" and come back to other books / courses if the student wants to learn more.Good starting point of a very complex subject. Start here and continue learning as networking / computing is a continuous moving subject.

I was disappointed in this book. It looks self-published and seems to be printed on demand. Firstly, there is no index. Secondly, the body text is double-spaced and rendered in a san-serif font. Thirdly, there are ambiguous technical descriptions, like the author's description of bandwidth, which he describes as influencing not the transmission speed of a network circuit, but the volume of data sent. Say what? An example of a volumetric unit of measurement is a liter or a gallon. Packets have lengths in bytes but not volume. The author did not mention frequency in the example. The use of acronyms is inconsistent. The convention is to spell the term on first use followed by the commonly-used acronym in parentheses; for example, gigahertz (GHz). Another odd quirk was the use of quotations to set off keywords. Quotations, quotations everywhere, ignoring the convention in American English to place trailing commas or periods within the closing quotation mark. It's not necessary to capitalize Hexadecimal (sic). And beware of the exclamation mark in the subtitle. Yahoo! does it but nobody else should. It won't sell more copies. On a positive note, I found chapter four, Industrial Plant Networks, the most useful. But the author needs a competent technical editor and the book will undoubtedly be improved.

If you are not in the field, this educational guide is still quite valuable, though it may require one or two readings to become perfectly clear. Well written with concise explanations and forward thinking, this is a manual that I expect to see crop up in training rooms for businesses large and small.

Good publication for my needs.

Helpful reading

Not very well written. It was too basic and superficial.

Un poco piratón pero te da una idea.

great book

+: the author’s approach goes straigth to the point and provides a quick and useful overview about industrial networks, their protocols and technical implementative details. I‘ve learnt some new concepts and refreshed some knowhow.-: nothing negative so far. Very fair price for the book as well.

Its a reasonable read however there is a major ommission and cc-link is not present. Which seems a major oversight as its the largest network in Asia.

Good service.thanks