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SCADA
 
   
Course Name: SCADA: Industrial Field Communications: Evolving Fieldbus Networks to Ethernet and IP Training
   
Deployment Options: Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
   
Course Duration: 2-3 days depending on audience background and options
   
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Introduction:
 
In the past, industrial networks were always served by proprietary technologies, with poor economies of scale and poorer maintainability characteristics. For these and other good reasons, there is a strong trend in industry toward open architecture, standards-oriented networking. Although the market is moving in this direction, there are still a challenging number of design options, and often difficult choices must be made.
 
Audience:
 
The course is targeted toward technical personnel with a responsibility for specifying, designing, installing, testing and/or maintaining industrial field networks. This will include managers, engineers, technicians and trades people with responsibility for instrumentation, process control, SCADA systems and production/operation.
 
Course Objectives:
 
The objective of this course is to demystify the subject, identify important networking technologies that are suitable for specific classes of applications, and provide students develop a working understanding of how to best exploit this class of network.

Features of Presentation

Each delegate receives a permanent, comprehensive workbook that is much more than a set of lecture notes. These workbook manuals are designed to complement the presentation, and are really a comprehensive textbook, with subject index, extensive glossary section. This workshop program is augmented with a number of student problem solving exercises and demonstrations of featured technology.
 
Course Outline
 

(i) Introduction

  • Overview of Fieldbus Standards
  • Applications and Configurations
  • Competing Standards: The Fieldbus Wars
  • The Universal Preference for IP Compatibility
  • The Pervasive Shift to Wireless

(ii) Review Network Principles

  • OSI Architecture Features
  • Serial Data Communication Technologies
  • Interface Standards
  • Modulation, Modems and Managing Errors
  • Computer Operating Systems; Windows and Unix/Linux

(iii) Ethernet and Other Local Area Networks

  • Contention and Collision Detection
  • 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000 Megabit Per Second Variations
  • Features and Application of Ethernet Switches
  • Quality-of-Service Features (IEEE 802.1p/q)
  • Power Over Ethernet (IEEE 802.3af)

(iv) Industrial Ethernet

  • Challenges With Adopting Ethernet For Industrial Applications
  • Hardening Ethernet For Industrial Service
  • Managing The Statistical Variability of Ethernet
  • Redundant Ethernet Configurations

(v) Elements of The Internet Architecture

  • Protocols of the Internet Architecture
  • Principles of Internet Protocol
  • Other Important Protocols; TCP, ICMP, ARP
  • Comparing Bridges, Routers and Switches
  • Computer Operating Systems; Windows and Unix/Linux

(vi) Fieldbusses - Comparisons and Common Features

  • Before We Had a Field bus ...
  • Overview of Alternative Technologies
  • Relative Advantages/Disadvantages of Each
  • Emerging Dominant Application Areas

(vii) Foundation Fieldbus

  • Application Scenarios - H1 and H2 Levels
  • Publisher/Subscriber Model (Compared to Client/Server)
  • Physical Layer and Frame Structure
  • Peer-to-Peer Communication and Link Active Scheduler
  • Function Blocks and Device Descriptions

(viii) Modbus and Modbus Plus

  • Origins and Application Scenarios
  • Physical Networks and Topology Alternatives
  • Message Structure and Frame Formats
  • Advantages/Limitations

(ix) Profibus

  • Application Scenarios
  • Message Structure and Frame Formats

(x) Overview of Other Field Network Technologies:

  • HART:
  • ---Applications and Configurations
  • ---Modes of Operation and Device Descriptions
  • Interbus:
  • ---An RS-485 Ring System
  • ---Ring, Bus and Segmented Bus Configurations

(xi) Ethernet/IP and DeviceNet/CIP

  • DeviceNet
  • CAN-Open and the CANBus
  • Ethernet/IP and CIP
  • An Abstract View of Data Elements

(xii) Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • ZigBee - (IEEE 802.15.4) Developments
  • Other WSN Technologies
  • Issues With Managing Power
  • New Applications Made Feasible With Wireless

(xiii) Wireless LANs - Wi-Fi

  • Wireless Advantages and Disadvantages in Industrial Environments
  • Features of The IEEE 802.11-Series of Standards
  • Designing Wireless LAN Systems
  • Current and Emerging Wireless Alternatives

Appendices

  • Glossary of Terminology
  • Suggestions For Further Reading

General Index
 

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