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Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation

Volume III: Control Intelligence, Networking and Communication Details

  • 1st Edition - July 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Swapan Basu
  • Language: English

Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation: Volume III: Control Intelligence, Networking and Communication Details is an expansive four volume collection reviewing… Read more

Description

Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation: Volume III: Control Intelligence, Networking and Communication Details is an expansive four volume collection reviewing every major aspect of the intelligent automation and digital transformation of power, process, and manufacturing plants, including updates on specific control and automation systems pertinent to various power process plants through manufacturing and factory automation systems. Chapters review new and emergent control intelligence types, including those made possible by artificial intelligence, neural networks, remote control, and robotics.

Control system networking and interrelated communication technologies within, and external to, the network are comprehensively addressed. The volume also discusses network usage and system integration through field bus as well as at network levels.

Key features

  • Introduces the foundations of control systems, networking, and industrial data communications for power, process, and manufacturing in plant automation
  • Reviews core functions, design details, and optimized configurations of plant digital control systems
  • Addresses advanced process control for digital control systems that is inclusive of software implementations
  • Provides guidance on installation commissioning of control systems in working plants

Readership

Early career engineers dealing with plant automation, networking, system integration and digitization projects in the power, process or manufacturing industries, Plant managers, Researchers in electrical engineering, process engineering and mechanical engineering, instrumentation, and controls

Table of contents

1. General discussions on control Intelligence

2. Model based control systems

3. Adaptive gain and auto tuning features of Controllers

4. Fuzzy Control systems 5. Expert systems 6. Artificial intelligence and its applications

7. Discussions on Neural Network (NN)

8. Discussions on Control Networking and Communication

9. Network Components, devices and their usage

10. Ethernet network discussions

11. Wireless Network and Communication

12. Discussions on OPC and Network interface

13. Discussions on Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) & Time Sensitive Network (TSN)

14. Discussions on Various issues in Networking

15. Network Communication discussions

16. Fundamentals of field (and network) communications

17. Brain and Modbus communication

18. HART in Field communication

19. Foundation Fieldbus (FFB)

20. Profibus & Profinet

21. Actuator Sensor (AS) interface, World Factory Instrumentation Protocol (FIP) and FIPIO

22. Control Area Network (CAN), controlNet and DeviceNet

23. Device integration through fieldbus

24. Wireless in field communication

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the author

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Swapan Basu

Swapan Basu is the founding member and retired Chief Executive of Systems & Controls Kolkata India. Basu is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE- USA) and Instrumentation and measurement society and also Senior member of International society of Automation (ISA USA). He brings over 45 years of international professional engineering experience in instrumentation and controls systems for subcritical, super critical thermal power plants Off shore installations and other process plants. Since 1979, he has been leading teams of engineers in India, Jordan, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, and USA
Affiliations and expertise
Founder and Chief Executive, Systems and Controls, Kolkata, India