COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes
various practical sessions and exercises. Theory
learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art
simulators.

This course is designed to provide participants with a
detailed and up-to-date overview of network and
communication protocols. It covers the industrial data
communications, data communication basics, smart
instrumentation, modern instrumentation and control
systems; the basics of digital data communications
including OSI model of networking, network topologies,
network protocols and network system components; the
data communications interface standards, serial data
transfer basics and optical cable selection; and the data
communications cabling including cables with copper
conductors, interference and noise, error detection and
correction, copper cable selection, installation
recommendations and fiber optic data cables.

Further, this course will also discuss the protocol
concepts, ethernet and gigabit ethernet, wireless
communication, industrial protocols, master slave
configurations and client server configurations; the
HART communications protocol, analogue versus digital
communications, protocol specifications, cabling,
remote diagnostics and calibration; and the ethernet
communications protocol including physical, data link,
network, transport and applications layer, IP addressing,
gigabit ethernet and industrial protocols based on
ethernet.

During this interactive course, participants will learn the FOUNDATION fieldbus,
open platform communications protocol (OPC), devicenet protocol, PROFIBUS
protocol, modbus protocol and controlnet protocol; the wireless LAN in industrial
networks (IWLANS); the fundamentals of wireless technology, WLAN access
procedures and comparison and coexistence of different wireless technologies;
planning and configuring of different radio links; securing high date rates in IWLANs;
and the industrial network systems security covering security attacks, security
measures and security policy.