Posted by: Jim Krachenfels on April 24, 2012
In some environments, networking products are placed in clean air conditioned offices, where installers often give less thought to hardening characteristics of switches, routers, and the cables used to connect them. But, other environments are less “pristine”. Here, industrial communications and control networks are expected to operate consistently and reliably under extreme conditions, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI), high operating temperatures, ambient outdoor temperatures, power/voltage fluctuations, machine vibration, mechanical hazards and more.
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Posted by: Chris Long on April 09, 2012
Given the complexity and smarts of industrial machinery, customers scramble to get a down machine up and running as quickly as possible. Initially, their focus is on troubleshooting the machine. Much of this trouble shooting can be time consuming given the complexity of the overall machine design and network installed. So, whom do customers turn to? Initially they will turn to the manufacturer that built the machine to assist them in getting it up and running.| Comments (0) | Post a Comment |
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